Re: [Matplotlib-users] imshow and projections

> 2. I have a skymap I would like to plot using a particular projection
> - what I've been doing so far is specifying x and y coordinates using
> mgrid and calling contourf(x,y,data,100) to approximate this.  But
> what I'd rather do is something like
> imshow(data,extent=[-pi,pi,-pi/2,pi/2]) ... when I call that with a
> projection axis activated, the projection isn't honored - the image
> just appears as a regular square box.  Is there any way to get imshow
> to respect the projection?
>

Did you try pcolormesh (or pcolor)? I believe these commands respect
the projection.

 pcolormesh(x, y, data)

-JJ