On Wednesday, March 23, 2016 at 11:41:02 AM UTC-4, Aaron Meurer wrote: > > 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] <javascript:>> 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] <javascript:>. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <javascript:>. > > 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. > What exactly is the patch requirement? It just says "you must submit at least one patch to sympy"... is this supposed to be a sample related to the project or just code to demonstrate your ability?
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