problem with new symbols

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Hi again, I am trying to see if I could produce a scatter

    > plot (using "scatter" or "plot") but using NEW symbols (so
    > not already available in the list provided). I would like to
    > design new symbols (in some way which is to be defined) so
    > that scatter and/or plot would be able to use them.
    > Examples: horizontal or vertical or even rotated ellipses,
    > icon sketched galaxy-looking symbols, ...

    > Any hint on how to do this?

    > thanks in advance for any help here!

    > Eric P.S.: I already posted a similar question a few days
    > ago, so forgive me for this repetition...

persistence wins the day!

I added an option to scatter to support custom markers. You pass in a
list if x,y vertices for the polygon you want to use as the marker.

I haven't quite worked out the scaling yet, so for now use scale
arguments that look right and understand that this may change when we
get the scaling issue cleaned up.

I added an example to svn revision 2402
examples/scatter_custom_symbol.py. Here it is, using an ellipse

  from pylab import figure, nx, show

  # unit area ellipse
  rx, ry = 3., 1.
  area = rx * ry * nx.pi
  theta = nx.arange(0, 2*nx.pi+0.01, 0.1)
  verts = zip(rx/area*nx.cos(theta), ry/area*nx.sin(theta))

  x,y,s,c = nx.rand(4, 30)
  s*= 10**2.

  fig = figure()
  ax = fig.add_subplot(111)
  ax.scatter(x,y,s,c,marker=None,verts =verts)

  show()

One thing we can do to make this more user friendly is to add new
symbols to the scatter symbol table, eg

'wellipse' : a wide ellipse
'tellipse' : a tall ellipse

and map names to sequences of vertices. So as you create the custom
symbols you want to use, send them to me and I'll add them to the
defaults, where appropriate.

Cheers,
JDH

2

great!

a quick one then: how would you then do to have a marker symbols where
some part of the polygon is not attached to the rest (a vertical line
plus an ellipse for example). I could do that using two different
markers and plotting them one after the other, but is there a simpler
way?

thanks

Eric

John Hunter wrote:

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3

Hi,

it seems that there are a bug in numerix with numarray (it's working fine with
numpy) and the random array package.

$ python scatter_custom_symbol.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "scatter_custom_symbol.py", line 9, in ?
    x,y,s,c = nx.rand(4, 30)
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'rand'
humufr@...1113...:~/tmp/Python/SCIPY/matplotlib/matplotlib/examples

N.

···

Le Friday 19 Mai 2006 10:10, John Hunter a écrit :

    > Hi again, I am trying to see if I could produce a scatter
    > plot (using "scatter" or "plot") but using NEW symbols (so
    > not already available in the list provided). I would like to
    > design new symbols (in some way which is to be defined) so
    > that scatter and/or plot would be able to use them.
    > Examples: horizontal or vertical or even rotated ellipses,
    > icon sketched galaxy-looking symbols, ...

    > Any hint on how to do this?

    > thanks in advance for any help here!

    > Eric P.S.: I already posted a similar question a few days
    > ago, so forgive me for this repetition...

persistence wins the day!

I added an option to scatter to support custom markers. You pass in a
list if x,y vertices for the polygon you want to use as the marker.

I haven't quite worked out the scaling yet, so for now use scale
arguments that look right and understand that this may change when we
get the scaling issue cleaned up.

I added an example to svn revision 2402
examples/scatter_custom_symbol.py. Here it is, using an ellipse

  from pylab import figure, nx, show

  # unit area ellipse
  rx, ry = 3., 1.
  area = rx * ry * nx.pi
  theta = nx.arange(0, 2*nx.pi+0.01, 0.1)
  verts = zip(rx/area*nx.cos(theta), ry/area*nx.sin(theta))

  x,y,s,c = nx.rand(4, 30)
  s*= 10**2.

  fig = figure()
  ax = fig.add_subplot(111)
  ax.scatter(x,y,s,c,marker=None,verts =verts)

  show()

One thing we can do to make this more user friendly is to add new
symbols to the scatter symbol table, eg

'wellipse' : a wide ellipse
'tellipse' : a tall ellipse

and map names to sequences of vertices. So as you create the custom
symbols you want to use, send them to me and I'll add them to the
defaults, where appropriate.

Cheers,
JDH

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I think there is a bug with the new verts because it cannot then use
“scales” with len(scales)=1.:

/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/matplotlib/axes.py in scatter(self, x,
y, s, c, marker, cmap, norm, vmin, vmax, alpha, linewidths, faceted,
verts, **kwargs)

3072 #scales = sqrt(scales * self.figure.dpi.get() / 72.)

3073 if len(scales)==1:

-> 3074 verts = [s[0]*verts]

Eric

John Hunter wrote:

···

<emsellem@…419…>

                           -- ====================================================================
Eric Emsellem Centre de Recherche Astrophysique de Lyon
9 av. Charles-Andre tel: +33 (0)4 78 86 83 84
69561 Saint-Genis Laval Cedex fax: +33 (0)4 78 86 83 86
France ====================================================================

emsellem@…419…http://www-obs.univ-lyon1.fr/eric.emsellem