Re: [Matplotlib-users] Matplotlib & Basemap / What is the Best Graphical Back-end for Raster Data Display (.png) ?

2016-03-03 Thread Claude Falbriard
Phone: 55-13-99662-5703 | Mobile: 55-13-98117-3316 E-mail: clau...@br.ibm.com From: Benjamin Root To: Claude Falbriard/Brazil/IBM@IBMBR Cc: Matplotlib Users Date: 03/03/2016 11:44 Subject:Re: [Matplotlib-users] Matplotlib & Basemap / What is the Best Graphical Bac

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Matplotlib & Basemap / What is the Best Graphical Back-end for Raster Data Display (.png) ?

2016-03-03 Thread Benjamin Root
AGG is used for image handling, particularly for handling transforms, scaling, interpolation and such. The AxesImage object that you get from calling imshow() is handled through the AGG library. This is true regardless of the backend being used because it is based in the AxesImage class (and others

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Matplotlib & Basemap / What is the Best Graphical Back-end for Raster Data Display (.png) ?

2016-03-03 Thread Jerzy Karczmarczuk
Le 03/03/2016 15:43, Benjamin Root a écrit : > Matplotlib will not work at all without AGG. Even the AGG-less > backends still use AGG for image handling (imshow() and such). Is it so? I never found such strong statement in the docs. 1. SVG backend produces vector graphics, no rasterisation in p

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Matplotlib & Basemap / What is the Best Graphical Back-end for Raster Data Display (.png) ?

2016-03-03 Thread Benjamin Root
Matplotlib will not work at all without AGG. Even the AGG-less backends still use AGG for image handling (imshow() and such). We can not guarantee that matplotlib would work with agg 2.5, as that is the GPL'ed version. We develop against a patched 2.4 branch of AGG (which is BSD-licensed), which i

[Matplotlib-users] Matplotlib & Basemap / What is the Best Graphical Back-end for Raster Data Display (.png) ?

2016-03-03 Thread Claude Falbriard
Dear colleagues, I like to receive an advice about the best back-end choice for Matplotlib & Basemap to generate large .png images in a background processing mode. Having issues with the pre-compiled "Agg" package which does not work under my machine architecture. Also not able to recompile th