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Hi Ben,
Thanks for the reply. I did try to match font.family and font.$family and I
am using matplotlib 0.99.0.
I did find something interesting...

For testing, I tried only using font.family line, (deleting font.$family
line). I got reasonable font for "monospace", "fantasy" "sans-serif" and
"serif" family, but "cursive" looked exactly the same as "sans-serif", which
is the default font.family value.

Then, I added font.$family line. When font.family and font.$family  match,
as you suggested, I always get the default font as if I only specified
font.family as sans-serif. {''font.family' : 'fantasy',  'font.fantasy' :
'Chicago'} gives me the default font, {''font.family' : 'fantasy',
 'font.fantasy' : 'foo'} also gives me the default font ('Chicago is
actually in 'fantasy' family, 'foo' is not).

Then I tried to mismatch font.family and font.$family, since they are not
matching, font.$family is not taking effect, I am getting whatever
font.family line is giving me.

I think the syntax I used may be wrong. Anyone has any idea how to specify a
specific font name within a font family?

On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Benjamin Root <ben...@ou...> wrote:

>   On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 2:33 PM, Yi Shang <mir...@gm...>wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>> I was trying to change all figure fonts to Arial, or Times, but without
>> any luck.
>> below is the section I modify the property.
>>
>> ***************************************************************************************
>> from numpy import *
>> from matplotlib import pyplot as plt
>> import pylab
>> params = {'font.size' : 16,
>>           'axes.labelsize' : 16,
>>           'font.style' : 'normal',
>>           'font.family' : 'sans-serif',
>>         'font.sans-serif' : 'Arial'
>> }
>> pylab.rcParams.update(params)
>>
>> ****************************************************************************************
>> The font.family line seems to be working ( I get different fonts when I
>> specify 'sans-serif' or 'monospace'), but changing font.sans-serif has no
>> effect at all. If the resulting figure is not changing, does it mean the
>> font used is always the default in sans-serif family(Bitstream Vera Sans)? I
>> wonder why matplotlib doesn't use more common fonts as default, like Arial
>> or Times which are accepted by most journals..
>>
>>
>> Thank you!
>>
>
> Yi,
>
> This is just a guess, but I wonder if there might be a slight mistake on
> how you are specifying the font.  If 'font.family' is set to 'monospace',
> then the font name has to be assigned to 'font.monospace', not
> 'font.sans-serif'.  Does that make a difference?
>
> Ben Root
>



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On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 2:33 PM, Yi Shang <mir...@gm...> wrote:

> Dear all,
> I was trying to change all figure fonts to Arial, or Times, but without any
> luck.
> below is the section I modify the property.
>
> ***************************************************************************************
> from numpy import *
> from matplotlib import pyplot as plt
> import pylab
> params = {'font.size' : 16,
>           'axes.labelsize' : 16,
>           'font.style' : 'normal',
>           'font.family' : 'sans-serif',
>         'font.sans-serif' : 'Arial'
> }
> pylab.rcParams.update(params)
>
> ****************************************************************************************
> The font.family line seems to be working ( I get different fonts when I
> specify 'sans-serif' or 'monospace'), but changing font.sans-serif has no
> effect at all. If the resulting figure is not changing, does it mean the
> font used is always the default in sans-serif family(Bitstream Vera Sans)? I
> wonder why matplotlib doesn't use more common fonts as default, like Arial
> or Times which are accepted by most journals..
>
>
> Thank you!
>

Yi,

This is just a guess, but I wonder if there might be a slight mistake on how
you are specifying the font.  If 'font.family' is set to 'monospace', then
the font name has to be assigned to 'font.monospace', not
'font.sans-serif'.  Does that make a difference?

Ben Root

Dear all,
I was trying to change all figure fonts to Arial, or Times, but without any
luck.
below is the section I modify the property.

***************************************************************************************
from numpy import *
from matplotlib import pyplot as plt
import pylab
params = {'font.size' : 16,
          'axes.labelsize' : 16,
          'font.style' : 'normal',
          'font.family' : 'sans-serif',
        'font.sans-serif' : 'Arial'
}
pylab.rcParams.update(params)
****************************************************************************************
The font.family line seems to be working ( I get different fonts when I
specify 'sans-serif' or 'monospace'), but changing font.sans-serif has no
effect at all. If the resulting figure is not changing, does it mean the
font used is always the default in sans-serif family(Bitstream Vera Sans)? I
wonder why matplotlib doesn't use more common fonts as default, like Arial
or Times which are accepted by most journals..


Thank you!

-- 
Yi (Miranda) Shang
PhD candidate
Graduate Program in Molecular and Cellular Biology
Stony Brook University

  On 8/27/10 12:05 PM, Brian Larsen wrote:
> Thanks, that a step, but how do I tell matplotlib where to then put 
> this map?  It needs to be on the current figure with the current axes 
> but between 0 and 1 in radius.
>
> Imagine this plot but the black circle instead contains a map of the 
> earth as seen from space in the right viewing geometry.
> http://plasmasphere.nasa.gov/models/gcpm_v22_eq_kp1.jpg
>
> I can work out the geometry and all but putting the map in that black 
> region has me baffled.
>
> Brian

Brian:  You can make the basemap axes sit inside your other figure by 
setting the axes limits manually.  Even if you could figure out exactly 
where to put it though - it will cover more than the black region (the 
basemap axes will be square).  Perhaps the axes background can be set to 
be transparent - I don't know for sure.

-Jeff
>
>
>
>
> On Aug 27, 2010, at 11:52 AM, Aman Thakral wrote:
>
>> Here is an example of the general usage for an orthographic projection.
>>
>> def genMap(fig, ax, llcrnrlon,llcrnrlat,urcrnrlon,urcrnrlat):
>>         fig.sca(ax)
>>         m = 
>> Basemap(resolution='i',projection='ortho',lon_0=(urcrnrlon+llcrnrlon)/2,lat_0=(urcrnrlat+llcrnrlat)/2)
>>         m.drawcoastlines()
>>         m.drawmapboundary(fill_color='aqua')
>>         m.drawstates(linewidth=3)
>>         m.fillcontinents(color='coral',lake_color='aqua')
>>         m.drawcountries(linewidth=3)
>>
>> where:
>> llcrnlon = lower left corner longitude
>> llcrnlat = lower left corner latitude
>> urcrnlon =upper right corner longitude
>> urcrnlat = upper right corner latitude
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 1:39 PM, Brian Larsen <bal...@la... 
>> <mailto:bal...@la...>> wrote:
>>
>>     Ben,
>>
>>     I have but no where in there do I see (or at least understand)
>>     how to draw a map on top of a current figure with set bounds in
>>     data space...
>>
>>     Cheers,
>>
>>     Brian
>>
>>
>>     On Aug 27, 2010, at 11:24 AM, Benjamin Root wrote:
>>
>>>     On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 12:11 PM, Brian Larsen
>>>     <bal...@la... <mailto:bal...@la...>> wrote:
>>>
>>>         Hello all,
>>>
>>>         I am plotting satellite orbit files and it looks really nice
>>>         to plot an Earth in the center with the continents on it to
>>>         orient people to where the spacecraft is.  Does anyway know
>>>         how to do this?  All I seem to be able to do is create a
>>>         whole globe as the figure.
>>>
>>>         In this simple example:
>>>
>>>         from pylab import *
>>>         r = ndarray(40)
>>>         r[:] = 3.3
>>>         rad = linspace(0, 2*pi, 40)
>>>         figure()
>>>         subplot(111, polar=True)
>>>         plot(rad, r, lw=3)
>>>         draw()
>>>
>>>
>>>         wouldn't it look great to have the earth plotted in the
>>>         space up to 1.0 (as measured in earth radii)?
>>>
>>>         Thanks much,
>>>
>>>         Brian
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>     Have you checked out the basemap tool?
>>>
>>>     http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/basemap/doc/html/
>>>
>>>     Ben Root
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>     -- 
>>
>>     Brian A. Larsen
>>     Space Science and Applications
>>     Group ISR-1
>>     Los Alamos National Laboratory
>>     PO Box 1663, MS-D466
>>     Los Alamos, NM 87545
>>     USA
>>
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>
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>
>
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On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 1:16 PM, Eric Firing <ef...@ha...> wrote:
> On 08/27/2010 07:15 AM, Ryan May wrote:
>> You can make the circle this way, specifying everything in axes coordinates:
>>
>> cp = patches.Circle((.5,.5),.025, transform=ax.transAxes)
>>
>> However, this puts the circle in the same spot in axes coordinates
>> [(0.5,0.5) is the middle of the plot]. I'm not sure if that's what you
>> want.  I can't see any way to get Circle to use different transforms
>> for the center and the size, so from here the only path forward I see
>> is subclassing Circle. This way you could add code to the draw method
>> to calculate the center in axes coordinates from the center in data
>> coords. This needs to be done at draw time since the mapping of data
>> coords->axes coords changes as you pan and zoom.
>
> A simpler alternative is to use a CircleCollection with a single member.
>  Collections allow separate transforms for the patch and the offset;
> the latter determines the location of the center.

Why in the world didn't that occur to me?

Ryan

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University of Oklahoma

On 08/27/2010 07:15 AM, Ryan May wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 2:24 PM, Ben Edwards<bed...@cs...>  wrote:
>> Hello, I've used matplotlib for a while but never had cause to ask a
>> question until now. I am trying to add a patch to an axis, but would like
>> the patch to remain the same size when, interactively, I resize the
>> resulting figure. I am using TkAgg, and trying the following:
>>>>> import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
>>>>> import matplotlib.patches as patches
>>>>> ax = plt.gca()
>>>>> cp = patches.Circle((.5,.5),.025)
>>>>> ax.add_patch(cp)
>>>>> ax.set_aspect('equal')
>>>>> plt.draw()
>>>>> plt.show()
>> This gives me a nice blue circle in the middle of the plot, and using
>> ax.set_aspect('equal') I know that it will not be distorted into an ellipse.
>> But is there a way to ensure that when I make the Tk window bigger, that the
>> circle appears to be the same size as it was previously? I assume this would
>> entail some sort of transform, but I don't quite understand how they work...
>
> You can make the circle this way, specifying everything in axes coordinates:
>
> cp = patches.Circle((.5,.5),.025, transform=ax.transAxes)
>
> However, this puts the circle in the same spot in axes coordinates
> [(0.5,0.5) is the middle of the plot]. I'm not sure if that's what you
> want.  I can't see any way to get Circle to use different transforms
> for the center and the size, so from here the only path forward I see
> is subclassing Circle. This way you could add code to the draw method
> to calculate the center in axes coordinates from the center in data
> coords. This needs to be done at draw time since the mapping of data
> coords->axes coords changes as you pan and zoom.

A simpler alternative is to use a CircleCollection with a single member. 
  Collections allow separate transforms for the patch and the offset; 
the latter determines the location of the center.

Eric

>
> Ryan
>

Thanks, that a step, but how do I tell matplotlib where to then put this map?  It needs to be on the current figure with the current axes but between 0 and 1 in radius.

Imagine this plot but the black circle instead contains a map of the earth as seen from space in the right viewing geometry.
http://plasmasphere.nasa.gov/models/gcpm_v22_eq_kp1.jpg

I can work out the geometry and all but putting the map in that black region has me baffled.

Brian




On Aug 27, 2010, at 11:52 AM, Aman Thakral wrote:

> Here is an example of the general usage for an orthographic projection.
> 
> def genMap(fig, ax, llcrnrlon,llcrnrlat,urcrnrlon,urcrnrlat):
>         fig.sca(ax)
>         m = Basemap(resolution='i',projection='ortho',lon_0=(urcrnrlon+llcrnrlon)/2,lat_0=(urcrnrlat+llcrnrlat)/2)
>         m.drawcoastlines()
>         m.drawmapboundary(fill_color='aqua')
>         m.drawstates(linewidth=3)
>         m.fillcontinents(color='coral',lake_color='aqua')
>         m.drawcountries(linewidth=3)
> 
> where:
> llcrnlon = lower left corner longitude
> llcrnlat = lower left corner latitude
> urcrnlon =upper right corner longitude
> urcrnlat = upper right corner latitude
> 
> 
> On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 1:39 PM, Brian Larsen <bal...@la...> wrote:
> Ben, 
> 
> I have but no where in there do I see (or at least understand) how to draw a map on top of a current figure with set bounds in data space...
> 
> Cheers, 
> 
> Brian
> 
> 
> On Aug 27, 2010, at 11:24 AM, Benjamin Root wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 12:11 PM, Brian Larsen <bal...@la...> wrote:
>> Hello all, 
>> 
>> I am plotting satellite orbit files and it looks really nice to plot an Earth in the center with the continents on it to orient people to where the spacecraft is.  Does anyway know how to do this?  All I seem to be able to do is create a whole globe as the figure.
>> 
>> In this simple example:
>> 
>> from pylab import *
>> r = ndarray(40)
>> r[:] = 3.3
>> rad = linspace(0, 2*pi, 40)
>> figure()
>> subplot(111, polar=True)
>> plot(rad, r, lw=3)
>> draw()
>> 
>> 
>> wouldn't it look great to have the earth plotted in the space up to 1.0 (as measured in earth radii)?
>> 
>> Thanks much, 
>> 
>> Brian
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Have you checked out the basemap tool?
>> 
>> http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/basemap/doc/html/
>> 
>> Ben Root
>> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> 
> Brian A. Larsen
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> Los Alamos National Laboratory
> PO Box 1663, MS-D466
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> USA
> 
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> SM-30, Bikini Atoll Road)
> 
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Los Alamos, NM 87545
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  On 8/27/10 11:39 AM, Brian Larsen wrote:
> Ben,
>
> I have but no where in there do I see (or at least understand) how to 
> draw a map on top of a current figure with set bounds in data space...
>
> Cheers,
>
> Brian
>

Brian: Something like this perhaps?

from pylab import *
from mpl_toolkits.basemap import Basemap
lons = linspace(0, 360, 361)
lats = 40.*ones(len(lons))
map = Basemap(projection='ortho',lon_0=270,lat_0=90.)
x,y = map(lons,lats)
map.plot(x,y,color='y')
map.bluemarble(scale=0.5)
show()

-Jeff
>
> On Aug 27, 2010, at 11:24 AM, Benjamin Root wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 12:11 PM, Brian Larsen <bal...@la... 
>> <mailto:bal...@la...>> wrote:
>>
>>     Hello all,
>>
>>     I am plotting satellite orbit files and it looks really nice to
>>     plot an Earth in the center with the continents on it to orient
>>     people to where the spacecraft is.  Does anyway know how to do
>>     this?  All I seem to be able to do is create a whole globe as the
>>     figure.
>>
>>     In this simple example:
>>
>>     from pylab import *
>>     r = ndarray(40)
>>     r[:] = 3.3
>>     rad = linspace(0, 2*pi, 40)
>>     figure()
>>     subplot(111, polar=True)
>>     plot(rad, r, lw=3)
>>     draw()
>>
>>
>>     wouldn't it look great to have the earth plotted in the space up
>>     to 1.0 (as measured in earth radii)?
>>
>>     Thanks much,
>>
>>     Brian
>>
>>
>>
>> Have you checked out the basemap tool?
>>
>> http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/basemap/doc/html/
>>
>> Ben Root
>>
>
>
>
>
>
> -- 
>
> Brian A. Larsen
> Space Science and Applications
> Group ISR-1
> Los Alamos National Laboratory
> PO Box 1663, MS-D466
> Los Alamos, NM 87545
> USA
>
> (For overnight add:
> SM-30, Bikini Atoll Road)
>
> Phone: 505-665-7691
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>
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Here is an example of the general usage for an orthographic projection.

def genMap(fig, ax, llcrnrlon,llcrnrlat,urcrnrlon,urcrnrlat):
        fig.sca(ax)
        m =
Basemap(resolution='i',projection='ortho',lon_0=(urcrnrlon+llcrnrlon)/2,lat_0=(urcrnrlat+llcrnrlat)/2)
        m.drawcoastlines()
        m.drawmapboundary(fill_color='aqua')
        m.drawstates(linewidth=3)
        m.fillcontinents(color='coral',lake_color='aqua')
        m.drawcountries(linewidth=3)

where:
llcrnlon = lower left corner longitude
llcrnlat = lower left corner latitude
urcrnlon =upper right corner longitude
urcrnlat = upper right corner latitude


On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 1:39 PM, Brian Larsen <bal...@la...> wrote:

> Ben,
>
> I have but no where in there do I see (or at least understand) how to draw
> a map on top of a current figure with set bounds in data space...
>
> Cheers,
>
> Brian
>
>
> On Aug 27, 2010, at 11:24 AM, Benjamin Root wrote:
>
> On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 12:11 PM, Brian Larsen <bal...@la...> wrote:
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I am plotting satellite orbit files and it looks really nice to plot an
>> Earth in the center with the continents on it to orient people to where the
>> spacecraft is.  Does anyway know how to do this?  All I seem to be able to
>> do is create a whole globe as the figure.
>>
>> In this simple example:
>>
>> from pylab import *
>> r = ndarray(40)
>> r[:] = 3.3
>> rad = linspace(0, 2*pi, 40)
>> figure()
>> subplot(111, polar=True)
>> plot(rad, r, lw=3)
>> draw()
>>
>>
>> wouldn't it look great to have the earth plotted in the space up to 1.0
>> (as measured in earth radii)?
>>
>> Thanks much,
>>
>> Brian
>>
>>
>>
> Have you checked out the basemap tool?
>
> http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/basemap/doc/html/
>
> Ben Root
>
>
>
>
>
>
> --
>
> Brian A. Larsen
> Space Science and Applications
> Group ISR-1
> Los Alamos National Laboratory
> PO Box 1663, MS-D466
> Los Alamos, NM 87545
> USA
>
> (For overnight add:
> SM-30, Bikini Atoll Road)
>
> Phone: 505-665-7691
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> email: bal...@la...
>
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> Technical data or Software Publicly Available
>
>
>
>
>
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Ben, 

I have but no where in there do I see (or at least understand) how to draw a map on top of a current figure with set bounds in data space...

Cheers, 

Brian


On Aug 27, 2010, at 11:24 AM, Benjamin Root wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 12:11 PM, Brian Larsen <bal...@la...> wrote:
> Hello all, 
> 
> I am plotting satellite orbit files and it looks really nice to plot an Earth in the center with the continents on it to orient people to where the spacecraft is.  Does anyway know how to do this?  All I seem to be able to do is create a whole globe as the figure.
> 
> In this simple example:
> 
> from pylab import *
> r = ndarray(40)
> r[:] = 3.3
> rad = linspace(0, 2*pi, 40)
> figure()
> subplot(111, polar=True)
> plot(rad, r, lw=3)
> draw()
> 
> 
> wouldn't it look great to have the earth plotted in the space up to 1.0 (as measured in earth radii)?
> 
> Thanks much, 
> 
> Brian
> 
> 
> 
> Have you checked out the basemap tool?
> 
> http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/basemap/doc/html/
> 
> Ben Root
> 





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  On 8/27/10 11:24 AM, Benjamin Root wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 12:11 PM, Brian Larsen <bal...@la... 
> <mailto:bal...@la...>> wrote:
>
>     Hello all,
>
>     I am plotting satellite orbit files and it looks really nice to
>     plot an Earth in the center with the continents on it to orient
>     people to where the spacecraft is.  Does anyway know how to do
>     this?  All I seem to be able to do is create a whole globe as the
>     figure.
>
>     In this simple example:
>
>     from pylab import *
>     r = ndarray(40)
>     r[:] = 3.3
>     rad = linspace(0, 2*pi, 40)
>     figure()
>     subplot(111, polar=True)
>     plot(rad, r, lw=3)
>     draw()
>
>
>     wouldn't it look great to have the earth plotted in the space up
>     to 1.0 (as measured in earth radii)?
>
>     Thanks much,
>
>     Brian
>
>
>
> Have you checked out the basemap tool?
>
> http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/basemap/doc/html/
>
> Ben Root

Sounds like you want the orthographic projection

http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/basemap/doc/html/users/ortho.html
http://www.scipy.org/Cookbook/Matplotlib/Maps

or the 'near-sided perspective' projection

http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/basemap/doc/html/users/nsper.html


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On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 12:11 PM, Brian Larsen <bal...@la...> wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I am plotting satellite orbit files and it looks really nice to plot an
> Earth in the center with the continents on it to orient people to where the
> spacecraft is.  Does anyway know how to do this?  All I seem to be able to
> do is create a whole globe as the figure.
>
> In this simple example:
>
> from pylab import *
> r = ndarray(40)
> r[:] = 3.3
> rad = linspace(0, 2*pi, 40)
> figure()
> subplot(111, polar=True)
> plot(rad, r, lw=3)
> draw()
>
>
> wouldn't it look great to have the earth plotted in the space up to 1.0 (as
> measured in earth radii)?
>
> Thanks much,
>
> Brian
>
>
>
Have you checked out the basemap tool?

http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/basemap/doc/html/

Ben Root

On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 2:24 PM, Ben Edwards <bed...@cs...> wrote:
> Hello, I've used matplotlib for a while but never had cause to ask a
> question until now. I am trying to add a patch to an axis, but would like
> the patch to remain the same size when, interactively, I resize the
> resulting figure. I am using TkAgg, and trying the following:
>>>> import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
>>>> import matplotlib.patches as patches
>>>> ax = plt.gca()
>>>> cp = patches.Circle((.5,.5),.025)
>>>> ax.add_patch(cp)
>>>> ax.set_aspect('equal')
>>>> plt.draw()
>>>> plt.show()
> This gives me a nice blue circle in the middle of the plot, and using
> ax.set_aspect('equal') I know that it will not be distorted into an ellipse.
> But is there a way to ensure that when I make the Tk window bigger, that the
> circle appears to be the same size as it was previously? I assume this would
> entail some sort of transform, but I don't quite understand how they work...

You can make the circle this way, specifying everything in axes coordinates:

cp = patches.Circle((.5,.5),.025, transform=ax.transAxes)

However, this puts the circle in the same spot in axes coordinates
[(0.5,0.5) is the middle of the plot]. I'm not sure if that's what you
want.  I can't see any way to get Circle to use different transforms
for the center and the size, so from here the only path forward I see
is subclassing Circle. This way you could add code to the draw method
to calculate the center in axes coordinates from the center in data
coords. This needs to be done at draw time since the mapping of data
coords->axes coords changes as you pan and zoom.

Ryan

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Hello all, 

I am plotting satellite orbit files and it looks really nice to plot an Earth in the center with the continents on it to orient people to where the spacecraft is.  Does anyway know how to do this?  All I seem to be able to do is create a whole globe as the figure.

In this simple example:

from pylab import *
r = ndarray(40)
r[:] = 3.3
rad = linspace(0, 2*pi, 40)
figure()
subplot(111, polar=True)
plot(rad, r, lw=3)
draw()


wouldn't it look great to have the earth plotted in the space up to 1.0 (as measured in earth radii)?

Thanks much, 

Brian






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That doesn't quite work the way I want. I guess a good example of the
behavior I am looking for is what 'scatter' does. It seems that regardless
of the size of the figure the points stay the same size. I would use scatter
but would like to have access to the individual patches later to modify
them. Is there a way to access individual patches in scatter, or how does
scatter manage to scale its Collection correctly?

I've dug around in the source code a bit, but can't find an obvious
solution...

Ben


On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 9:04 AM, Benjamin Root <ben...@ou...> wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 2:24 PM, Ben Edwards <bed...@cs...> wrote:
>
>> Hello, I've used matplotlib for a while but never had cause to ask a
>> question until now. I am trying to add a patch to an axis, but would like
>> the patch to remain the same size when, interactively, I resize the
>> resulting figure. I am using TkAgg, and trying the following:
>>
>> >>> import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
>> >>> import matplotlib.patches as patches
>> >>> ax = plt.gca()
>> >>> cp = patches.Circle((.5,.5),.025)
>> >>> ax.add_patch(cp)
>> >>> ax.set_aspect('equal')
>> >>> plt.draw()
>> >>> plt.show()
>>
>> This gives me a nice blue circle in the middle of the plot, and using
>> ax.set_aspect('equal') I know that it will not be distorted into an ellipse.
>> But is there a way to ensure that when I make the Tk window bigger, that the
>> circle appears to be the same size as it was previously? I assume this would
>> entail some sort of transform, but I don't quite understand how they work...
>>
>> Ben
>>
>>
> I haven't tried using this tool myself, and it might not be what you want,
> but there is an AnchoredArtist tool that might interest you:
>
>
> http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/mpl_toolkits/axes_grid/users/overview.html#anchoredartists
>
> I think this means that it wouldn't move at all, and I don't know if that
> is what you want.  I hope this helps!
>
> Ben Root
>
>

On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 2:24 PM, Ben Edwards <bed...@cs...> wrote:

> Hello, I've used matplotlib for a while but never had cause to ask a
> question until now. I am trying to add a patch to an axis, but would like
> the patch to remain the same size when, interactively, I resize the
> resulting figure. I am using TkAgg, and trying the following:
>
> >>> import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
> >>> import matplotlib.patches as patches
> >>> ax = plt.gca()
> >>> cp = patches.Circle((.5,.5),.025)
> >>> ax.add_patch(cp)
> >>> ax.set_aspect('equal')
> >>> plt.draw()
> >>> plt.show()
>
> This gives me a nice blue circle in the middle of the plot, and using
> ax.set_aspect('equal') I know that it will not be distorted into an ellipse.
> But is there a way to ensure that when I make the Tk window bigger, that the
> circle appears to be the same size as it was previously? I assume this would
> entail some sort of transform, but I don't quite understand how they work...
>
> Ben
>
>
I haven't tried using this tool myself, and it might not be what you want,
but there is an AnchoredArtist tool that might interest you:

http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/mpl_toolkits/axes_grid/users/overview.html#anchoredartists

I think this means that it wouldn't move at all, and I don't know if that is
what you want.  I hope this helps!

Ben Root

On 27 August 2010 09:35, xyz <mi...@op...> wrote:

> Hello,
> I would like to draw the following  triangle:
>
>         A
>        / \
>     5 /   \ 5
>      /     \
>     /       \
>    B--------C
>        4
>
> How is it possible to draw the above triangle with Matplotlib and are
> there any examples?
>

How about:

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from matplotlib.patches import Polygon
pts = np.array([[0,0], [4,0], [2,np.sqrt(5**2 - 2**2)]])
p = Polygon(pts, closed=True)
ax = plt.gca()
ax.add_patch(p)
ax.set_xlim(0,4)
ax.set_ylim(0,5)
plt.show()

I looked at the example here:
http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/examples/api/bbox_intersect.html,
found through the gallery here:
http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/gallery.html  for inspiration.

Angus.
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Post-doctoral research fellow
Neurobiology, University of Pittsburgh

Hello,
I would like to draw the following  triangle:

         A
        / \
     5 /   \ 5
      /     \
     /       \
    B--------C
        4

How is it possible to draw the above triangle with Matplotlib and are 
there any examples?

Than you in advance.

On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 7:21 AM, Stan Schymanski <ss...@bg...>wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I don't know which update it was that broke it, but this used to work:
>
> import numpy
> import pylab
> pylab.clf()
> fig = pylab.figure(1,figsize=(8,5))
> ax = fig.add_subplot(111, autoscale_on=False, xlim=(-1,5),
> ylim=(-4,3))
>
> t = numpy.arange(0.0, 5.0, 0.01)
> s = numpy.cos(2*numpy.pi*t)
> line, = ax.plot(t, s, lw=3, color='purple')
> pylab.text(-0.5,3.2,'no data',ha='center')
>
> pylab.annotate('',(-1,3.1),(0,3.1),va='center',ha='center',arrowprops=dict(arrowstyle='<->'))
> pylab.savefig('blah.png')
>
> This used to plot an arrow under the text 'no data' but above the main
> plot. Now this arrow does not appear unless at least part of it is within
> the plotting area. Change one of the '3.1' in the code above to, say, 3.0
> and the whole arrow is displayed. Is this a bug or is there a new way of
> achieving what I want?
>
> Thanks for your help already!
>
> Cheers
> Stan
>
>
I wonder if it was one of the fixes to the clipping code. If I plot this to
the screen and then move the plot so that the "no data" text is in the plot
area, the arrow shows up.

So, the question is... was plotting arrows outside the plot area a bug or a
feature? And, if it was a bug, what about being able to annotate outside the
plot area?

Lastly, whatever the outcome, this example should probably become a test
because it would be a great way to test for obscure broken behavior.

Ben Root

P.S. - cc'ing the devel mailing list here...

Dear all,

I don't know which update it was that broke it, but this used to work:

import numpy
import pylab
pylab.clf()
fig = pylab.figure(1,figsize=(8,5))
ax = fig.add_subplot(111, autoscale_on=False, xlim=(-1,5),
ylim=(-4,3))

t = numpy.arange(0.0, 5.0, 0.01)
s = numpy.cos(2*numpy.pi*t)
line, = ax.plot(t, s, lw=3, color='purple')
pylab.text(-0.5,3.2,'no data',ha='center')
pylab.annotate('',(-1,3.1),(0,3.1),va='center',ha='center',arrowprops=dict(arrowstyle='<->'))
pylab.savefig('blah.png')

This used to plot an arrow under the text 'no data' but above the main plot. Now this arrow does not appear unless at least part of it is within the plotting area. Change one of the '3.1' in the code above to, say, 3.0 and the whole arrow is displayed. Is this a bug or is there a new way of achieving what I want?

Thanks for your help already!

Cheers
Stan

Thanks a lot to all of you.

First of all, I have to say that I agree with Benjamin Root.

I'll try the tools some of you suggested (no problem in installing and
trying, as soon as I can ... but it's good to know that there is a way
to generate CMYK images using Python ... as I told it will be useful
to have these suggestions recorded on the Matplotlib web site).

If amongst the readers of this mailing list there are also some
Matplotlib developers, I'd like to say them that to have the CMYK
option incorporated into Matplotlib (for example like it is
incorporated into the MATLAB print command) will be a great
improvement.

I started using Python only because I wanted to stop using MATLAB.
I've found Python a lot more powerful than MATLAB on nearly all
aspects.

When someone like me has to make some publications and does not have a
lot of time to try tools, he will be discouraged in using Matplotlib
(and Python) and he will return to MATLAB again (and this is what
happened to me until now).

So, developers, please seriously consider adding this option to Matplotlib.

The first sentence of the web site is "matplotlib is a python 2D
plotting library which produces publication quality figures". This is
true (I think they're better than Matlab figures) ... I only hope it
will be more easy in the future also to actually use those figures in
publications.

Thanks to all of you.

Kind regards,
Michele

2010/8/26 Jae-Joon Lee <lee...@gm...>:
> While not a full solution, I have been playing with a ps backend that
> saves images (and only images) in CMYK color.
> lcms is required for color transform.
>
> http://github.com/leejjoon/mpl_ps_cmyk
>
> For example,
>
> import mpl_toolkits.ps_cmyk
> plt.savefig("test_cmyk.eps", format="eps_cmyk")
>
> Regards,
>
> -JJ
>
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 6:12 AM, Robert Kern <rob...@gm...> wrote:
>> On 8/26/10 3:26 PM, Fernando Perez wrote:
>>> On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 11:39 AM, Eric Firing<ef...@ha...>  wrote:
>>>> It's not trivial.  This might help:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.littlecms.com/
>>>>
>>>> See the tutorial for some nice background info.
>>>
>>> And this could be a good start for a python-based workflow:
>>>
>>> http://www.cazabon.com/pyCMS/
>>>
>>> *if* it works (it looks old, so it may have bit-rotted in the meantime).
>>>
>>> Another option would be to ctypes-wrap the calls of littleCMS one
>>> needs just for this and be done with it.  Not very elegant, but it
>>> might get the OP out of a bind with minimal work, and he'd have a
>>> little eps2cmyk.py script he could run on his MPL-generated EPS files
>>> for colorspace conversion.  Just an afternoon hack.  :)
>>
>> You can also use my numpy-aware wrappers:
>>
>>   http://www.enthought.com/~rkern/cgi-bin/hgwebdir.cgi/lcms/
>>
>> --
>> Robert Kern
>>
>> "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
>>  that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
>>  an underlying truth."
>>   -- Umberto Eco
>>
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