As a temporary solution you might try just transforming your
> r,theta data to x, y and then drawing a grid over it.
A nice workaround. You may want to add
axis('off')
To get rid of the background axes.
> I looked at the classes and with the loglog already done as
> an example, it shouldn't be too hard to add polar plotting.
> So far though I haven't got any further than printing out
> some of the code.
I was planning on taking a different tack, and derive a PolarAxes from
Axes and RadialAxis from Axis, etc, which uses circles rather then
lines for the radial gridlines, and so on. But you get so close with
so little code that your approach may be better. If you want to keep
forging ahead, I'm happy to leave the ball in your court.
On an unrelated note,
from Numeric import *
from matplotlib.matlab import *
is redundant because matplotlib.matlab imports all of numeric/numarray
as well as MLab, fft, and some stuff from LinearAlgebra and Matrix.
This is to provide a matlab like environment where most of the things
you need are there.
JDH