[Matplotlib-users] alpha settings in mplot3d

2011-07-19 Thread gary ruben
I haven't had a chance to look properly at the new mplot3d improvements that Ben Root has been working on, but I wonder whether it is easy now to set the axis properties so that the patches that form the axes no longer have an alpha value of 0.5? I really want them to be solid. The use case is

Re: [Matplotlib-users] alpha settings in mplot3d

2011-07-19 Thread Benjamin Root
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 9:25 PM, gary ruben gru...@bigpond.net.au wrote: I haven't had a chance to look properly at the new mplot3d improvements that Ben Root has been working on, but I wonder whether it is easy now to set the axis properties so that the patches that form the axes no longer

Re: [Matplotlib-users] alpha settings in mplot3d

2011-07-19 Thread gary ruben
Thanks Ben, that works nicely. Good work :) (except that inkscape is not nearly as good as matplotlib itself at optimising the resulting vector-based pdf to keep the file size down - not mpl's fault though). I just remembered, while trying this out, that there are two of every object forming the

Re: [Matplotlib-users] alpha settings in mplot3d

2011-07-19 Thread Benjamin Root
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 10:22 PM, gary ruben gru...@bigpond.net.au wrote: Thanks Ben, that works nicely. Good work :) (except that inkscape is not nearly as good as matplotlib itself at optimising the resulting vector-based pdf to keep the file size down - not mpl's fault though). I just