what's a "patch" for?

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what’s a “patch” for?

At this address:

http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/api/artist_api.html#matplotlib.patches.Patch

I found the following description of a “patch”

“A patch is a 2D thingy with a face color and an edge color.”

Could someone expand? Why use it? When to use it? What does it look like?

thanks

Marc Desmarais

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Have a look at the examples that include patch in the name, for
example api/patch_collection.py and api/path_patch_demo.py

Darren

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On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 11:07 AM, marc desmarais<mdesm2005@...9...> wrote:

what's a "patch" for?

At this address:

http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/api/artist_api.html#matplotlib.patches.Patch

I found the following description of a "patch"

"A patch is a 2D thingy with a face color and an edge color."

Could someone expand? Why use it? When to use it? What does it look like?