Re: [Matplotlib-users] Most generic way to wrap collections

2014-01-07 Thread Adam Hughes
Sorry, had forgot to reply all: Thanks Joe, that's perfect. I appreciate the tip, as I would not have realized I needed a PathCollection for lines and curves. PS, do you know if it is possible to have a background image behind a plot of patches? I know it's doable for scatter, but hadn't seen a

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Most generic way to wrap collections

2014-01-07 Thread Joe Kington
On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 2:29 PM, Adam Hughes wrote: > Sorry, quick followup. I did find the gallery example to plot multiple > patches together: > > http://matplotlib.org/examples/api/patch_collection.html > > That's excellent. Now I guess my question is how best to generalize the > process of t

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Most generic way to wrap collections

2014-01-07 Thread Paul Hobson
Adam, Not sure if this is the try you're trying to bark up, but I've used a total hack to do what I think you're describing: 1) store lists of coordinate pairs in a pandas DataFrame 2) use df.apply() to turn each list of coords in to a patch and add to an axes object I'm sure you know this, but

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Most generic way to wrap collections

2014-01-07 Thread Adam Hughes
Sorry, quick followup. I did find the gallery example to plot multiple patches together: http://matplotlib.org/examples/api/patch_collection.html That's excellent. Now I guess my question is how best to generalize the process of turning my objects into patches. I think I will just try to keep