[Matplotlib-users] matplotlib/pylab memory usage

2008-06-03 Thread Larsen, Jesper
Hi matplotlib users and developers, I am trying to run a web application using matplotlib in a memory constrained environment. I have therefore tried to figure out what memory overhead matplotlib incurs. When I run the following method prior to and after importing pylab and matplotlib respectiv

[Matplotlib-users] Negative aspect ratios in basemap

2008-08-29 Thread Larsen, Jesper
Hi matplotlib-users, I have an application in which regions that are not known beforehand are defined and plotted. When the application plots a region a Basemap instance is created. My datasets define longitudes from 0 to 360. When regions cross the Greenwich meridian I try to make a Basemap l

Re: [Matplotlib-users] matplotlib.toolkits.basemap. Basemap overlays?

2008-01-25 Thread Larsen, Jesper
Jim Vickroy wrote: >Thanks for the detailed explanation; I may be starting to understand the >significance of *figure*. >I was hoping to avoid repeated calls like map.drawcoastlines(), >map.drawcountries(), map.fillcontinents(color='0.95'), >map.drawmapboundary(), map.drawmeridians(plot.arange(

[Matplotlib-users] "plot" issue

2008-02-19 Thread Larsen, Jesper
Hi, When I try to plot a time series of numpy masked array data containing 2 values and with one of them masked out my machine chokes (memory usage of more than 900 mb for the script below). The culprit seem to be my use of use the matplotlib.dates.HourLocator on the x axis. Here is a small sc

Re: [Matplotlib-users] NetCDF input/output/plotting using Matplotlib w/ Basemap

2008-03-08 Thread Larsen, Jesper
Hi Zane, >This all seems to suggest to me, after a little poking around, that the >NetCDF file format would be good. I've managed to get SciPy and >Matplotlib and Basemap installed and apparently working together >happily... but I can't seem to find any "official" module within that >structur