Symbol plotting

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Is there a standard way to add fixed-size, arbitrary-design symbols to axes?
- Their position must be given in data coordinates
- Their size must be given in physical coordinates (inches/points)

They basically need to behave like plot markers, but with the ability to specifiy arbitrary designs.
e.g. See http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cloud_cover_3.svg for an example symbol.

Currently I'm defining my symbols using a sequence of Patch objects, and then using PatchCollection (with its offsets and transOffset properties, and its set_transform() method) to do the positioning/scaling.

Is there a better way?

Any suggestions gratefully received!

Thanks

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Richard Hattersley, on 2011-07-13 09:58, wrote:

Is there a standard way to add fixed-size, arbitrary-design symbols to axes?
- Their position must be given in data coordinates
- Their size must be given in physical coordinates (inches/points)

They basically need to behave like plot markers, but with the ability to specifiy arbitrary designs.
e.g. See File:Cloud cover 3.svg - Wikimedia Commons for an example symbol.

Currently I'm defining my symbols using a sequence of Patch objects, and then using PatchCollection (with its offsets and transOffset properties, and its set_transform() method) to do the positioning/scaling.

Is there a better way?

This looks similar enough:

http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/examples/api/scatter_piecharts.html

best,

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