Re: [matplotlib-devel] Polar plots

On Tue, 05 Oct 2004 20:14:44 -0500, John Hunter
<jdh...@ac...> wrote:
> The work in progress claim is a bit overstated.  If you search the
> user's mailing list for polar, you'll see some code that was posted
> that essentially provides a poorman's polar plot.  It makes plot that
> roughly do the right things vis-a-vis polar, but to "do it right (tm)"
> you'll need to implement a polar axis class, derived from the Axis
> base class (eg use patch.Circle to draw the theta axis).  A polar
> transform class is defined in the _transforms module.  Among the other
> changes, you'll want to set the default transform for polar axes.

Yes, my idea is to do it "properly", but I'm still getting myself
familiar with the code.

My original plan was to create a class PolarSubplot(PolarAxes), in the
same way that Subplot derives from Axes. I would then create the
PolarAxes class, implementing all the necessary methods, like plot(),
imshow(), etc. That's why I mentioned imshow() and pcolor(), because
my idea is to implement not only line plots, but specially pseudo
color plots on the polar axes.

After looking at the code for transforms, though, I'm not sure if all
this is really necessary. It seems to me that I can define a polar
transform, and simply reuse all the methods already defined in the
Axes class to the all the work, is that right? I saw the PolarXY
transform in the _transforms module, but it seems to be just a stub
(matplotlib 0.63.0) -- it has no defined methods.

> If you decide you want to jump in, let me know and I'll write a more
> long winded email about what I think is involved, bearing in mind that
> I haven't actually implemented any of this code so my comments should
> be taken with a grain of salt.

A few more details would be great. As I said, I'm still looking at the
code and getting used to how things work. I would be very happy to
contribute with matplotlib, it's a fantastic work and something that
was missing in the Python world for quite a long time.

Roberto

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