I posted a CVS patch to the devel list a while ago which
> implemented an alternate image class which could plot
> data on a stretched (rectangular) grid much faster than
> pcolor can. The patch wasn't entirely complete as I'm
> unsure what the user-interface should be but it is
> usable and does what you seem to want to do without
> additional dependencies and with fast zooming and
> panning once data is loaded. I've tested with data up
> to 2048x2048 in size and it's quite usable on my laptop.
> If you are interested I can give you a patch against the
> current CVS.
Hi Nicholas,
Sorry for dropping the ball on this one. I just committed your patch
to CVS. Of course, the interface issue remains to be determined, but
the core logic is now in CVS
Checking in lib/matplotlib/image.py;
/cvsroot/matplotlib/matplotlib/lib/matplotlib/image.py,v <--
image.py
new revision: 1.22; previous revision: 1.21
done
Checking in src/_image.cpp;
/cvsroot/matplotlib/matplotlib/src/_image.cpp,v <-- _image.cpp
new revision: 1.36; previous revision: 1.35
done
Checking in src/_image.h;
/cvsroot/matplotlib/matplotlib/src/_image.h,v <-- _image.h
new revision: 1.16; previous revision: 1.15
JDH