To: Nils Wagner <nwagner@...56...>
Cc: SciPy Users List <scipy-user@...29...>,
matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Matplotlib-users] Visualizing Sparsity Pattern of matrices
From: John Hunter <jdhunter@...4...>
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 09:16:03 -0600"Nils" == Nils Wagner <nwagner@...56...> writes:
> Hi all, Structure plots provide a quick visual check on the
> sparsity pattern of the matrix. A structure plot is a
> rectangular array of dots; a dot is black if the
> corresponding matrix element is nonzero otherwise it is
> white.> Is it possible to generate such plots with scipy or should
> we switch over to matplotlib ?Here's another implementation that uses images - likely to be much
faster for very large matrices.
Hi,
As part of a programming environment for optimization in Python (soon to be released hopefully), I use Matplotlib for the graphics. I created several functions imitating Matlab's spy() using scatter(). My sparse matrices are represented in linked-list, compressed column or compressed row storage using the PySparse implementation
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Using scatter, I can plot the sparsity pattern of matrices with several thousands of lines and columns in a blink on my 1.7GHz P4 laptop. Using color maps, you can even color your dots according to the magnitude of the element they represent (a 2-dimensional "city plot" of a matrix).
Dominique