griddata

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Hi all,

Is it possible to apply griddata to polar coordinates or do I need cartesian coordinates ?

http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/api/mlab_api.html#matplotlib.mlab.griddata

Nils

2

You can keep the data in polar coordinates, you just need to pass in
the locations of the points in cartesian coordinates:

x = r * cos(theta)
y = r * sin(theta)

Ryan

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On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 8:40 AM, Nils Wagner <nwagner@...1052...> wrote:

Hi all,

Is it possible to apply griddata to polar coordinates or
do I need cartesian coordinates ?

http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/api/mlab_api.html#matplotlib.mlab.griddata

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Ryan May
Graduate Research Assistant
School of Meteorology
University of Oklahoma