Hi list, I have created plots, but I find the line style is
> a bit "vague". The line isn't one sharp, contrasting color,
> but smoothly blended to the background. Is the correct term
> anti aliasing?
Yes.
> When setting the linestyle to 'dotted', the plot is not very
> clear, see the following result:
> http://vankuik.nl/cgi/wiki.cgi/download/vague_dotted_plot.png
Try turning antialiasing off for certain lines with
ax.plot(x,y,antialiased=False)
or globally with the lines.antialiased rc parameter; see
http://matplotlib.sf.net/matplotlibrc
JDH