Help required with Tranformation of coordinate system

[Terry Reedy]

On 11/29/2010 1:55 AM, BansalMaddy wrote:
> On Nov 29, 2:03 am, Terry Reedy<tjre... at udel.edu>  wrote:
>> On 11/28/2010 6:36 PM, BansalMaddy wrote:
>>
>>> hi all!
>>> i need a help in python! i am struggling to implement this since last
>>> 2/3 days. suppose i have a 2D plot (say y=x**2).
>>> now on the same plot i want to transform my origin of coordinate
>>> system to a point (x',y' on this curve and again create a new plot
>>> with origin at x',y')
>>> can somebody help me how can i offset my cordinate system ...
>>
>> Plot y-y' == (x-x')**2 - y' against x-x'.
>>
>> --
>> Terry Jan Reedy
>
> Thanks for the reply, but i was looking for some built in function to
> offset coordinate system, because my problem is not very simple as i
> mentioned in my query, actually i need to plot some kind of closed
> loops.
> e..g
> 1. curve will be y=f(x) then i have to search for a point on y=f(x)
> curve and i have to plot another function y'=f(x'), where x' and y'
> are (-2x) and (-2y) repectively.
> 2. then again i hve to search for a pont on y'=f(x') and do some third
> kind of operations, on that.
> in that case if can shift my coordinate system to desired location on
> curve the computation becomes simpler.
>
> THanks again, hope i made myself clear :)

You would have to look at the docs for particular third-party plotting 
libraries, such as you might find on PyPI.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy