I agree that the interaction with matplotlib plots could be better. You can search the issue tracker and stackoverflow to see some examples of things that users commonly request.
Remember that the deadline is Friday, both for the application and the patch requirement. Aaron Meurer On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 10:58 PM, Ryan McCampbell <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tuesday, March 22, 2016 at 9:07:44 PM UTC-4, Ryan McCampbell wrote: >> >> Hello, I am Ryan McCampbell, a Computer Science student at the University >> of Virginia. >> I am interested in working on improving the sympy plotting library, as >> mentioned at >> https://github.com/sympy/sympy/wiki/GSoC-2016-Ideas#improve-the-plotting-module. >> I am not sure if I can do some of the hard tasks, but I have experience with >> matplotlib and think I could implement many or at least some of the >> suggested features. How many of these do you think would be reasonable for a >> project? And is there any additional information I should know? > > > Also I was thinking that the plotting functions could be more > embeddable/customizable. Currently the "plot" function picks a backend > (falling back on the "TextBackend" if matplotlib is not installed) and > creates a window automatically. You can postpone it and modify the figure by > setting show=False, but it is a little awkward. I would rather the user be > able to pass in a preexisting mpl figure or axes object to plot on, and to > select between multiple backends. That way you could for instance embed it > in a GUI. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sympy" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sympy. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/d70d8cd6-bea0-4c6d-92b9-6fb7c157018b%40googlegroups.com. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sympy. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/CAKgW%3D6Jdz3rG_ZBsi8W1q9FR7_WQWO%2B17CBrBkFuaRZKm861rQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
