[Matplotlib-devel] [matplotlib-devel] Alternative way of specifying plot layout
Thomas Caswell
tcaswell at gmail.com
Mon Aug 31 05:23:19 CEST 2015
We are starting to wrap up 1.5 (finally), getting this rolling again would
be great!
Tom
On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 1:52 PM Thomas Caswell <tcaswell at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am in favor of doing in in PR comments so we can to line comments.
>
> On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 3:47 AM Nicolas P. Rougier <
> Nicolas.Rougier at inria.fr> wrote:
>
>>
>> Great ! Thanks for setting this up. One comment, it would be great to
>> have a README.rst in the directory to have abstract of all MEPS at once in
>> github (I can make a PR).
>>
>>
>> I've started working on MEP28 (
>> https://github.com/rougier/matplotlib/blob/MEP28/doc/devel/MEP/MEP28.rst).
>> I intend to make a PR once it is a bit more polished or should I make a PR
>> right now to initiate the discussion on the PR ? (It is not clear to me if
>> the preferred medium for discussion is the mailing list or the PR comments).
>>
>>
>> Nicolas
>>
>> > On 25 Apr 2015, at 23:04, Thomas Caswell <tcaswell at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > The MEP tree has been moved into the main repo
>> https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/tree/master/doc/devel/MEP
>> >
>> > I am pretty excited about this feature.
>> >
>> > I don't remember if this got mentioned upthread, but this ties in with
>> https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues/1109 as a nice way to
>> set up all of the constraints.
>> >
>> > Tom
>> >
>> > On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 1:10 PM Nicolas P. Rougier <
>> Nicolas.Rougier at inria.fr> wrote:
>> > Ok. I'll wait for the MEP directory to start writing a proposal.
>> > Here is a flavor of what I think could be done (to be seen using a
>> fixed width font):
>> >
>> >
>> > "AB":
>> > ┌────────┐┌────────┐
>> > │ A ││ B │
>> > │ ││ │
>> > │ ││ │
>> > └────────┘└────────┘
>> >
>> > "ABB":
>> > ┌──────┐┌──────────┐
>> > │ A ││ B │
>> > │ ││ │
>> > │ ││ │
>> > └──────┘└──────────┘
>> >
>> > "ABD"
>> > "CCD":
>> > ┌───────┐┌───────┐┌───────┐
>> > │ A ││ B ││ D │
>> > │ ││ ││ │
>> > │ ││ ││ │
>> > └───────┘└───────┘│ │
>> > ┌────────────────┐│ │
>> > │ C ││ │
>> > │ ││ │
>> > └────────────────┘└───────┘
>> >
>> > "AaBb":
>> > ┌───────┐┌─┐┌───────┐┌─┐
>> > │ A ││ ││ B ││ │
>> > │ ││ ││ ││ │
>> > │ ││ ││ ││ │
>> > └───────┘└─┘└───────┘└─┘
>> >
>> > " b "
>> > "aABCc":
>> > ┌───────┐
>> > └───────┘
>> > ┌─┐┌───────┐┌───────┐┌───────┐┌─┐
>> > │ ││ A ││ B ││ C ││ │
>> > │ ││ ││ ││ ││ │
>> > │ ││ ││ ││ ││ │
>> > └─┘└───────┘└───────┘└───────┘└─┘
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >> On 19 Mar 2015, at 15:34, Benjamin Root <ben.root at ou.edu> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> two problems with that: 1) that really doesn't make me want to use
>> this approach, especially since I wouldn't know what ratios I would want in
>> the first place. 2) it can't tell if I want a horizontal or vertical
>> colorbar, whereas the lower-case notation could have some logic to
>> auto-detect the user's intent (e.g., all lower-case letters in the last row
>> indicates horizontal bars). It would also allow us to return the plotting
>> axes separate from the colorbar axes, which is how axes_grid1 does it, and
>> it is very nice that way.
>> >>
>> >> On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 6:31 AM, Nicolas P. Rougier <
>> Nicolas.Rougier at inria.fr> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> I think you could specify colorbars using: ["AAAAAAAAAB"]
>> >> (B is a vertical colorbar, 1/10 of total width)
>> >>
>> >> Nicolas
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> > On 18 Mar 2015, at 18:52, Eric Firing <efiring at hawaii.edu> wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> > On 2015/03/18 7:42 AM, Benjamin Root wrote:
>> >> >> A thought... could this perhaps be extended somehow to specify
>> colorbars
>> >> >> in the layout?
>> >> >
>> >> > A lower-case letter could indicate a colorbar-size Axes:
>> >> >
>> >> > layout = ["ABc",
>> >> > "DE ",
>> >> > "ff "]
>> >> >
>> >> > would put a vertical think axes to the right of B, and a double-wide
>> >> > hoizontal one below D and E.
>> >> >
>> >> > All of this seems like an alternative API for gridspec and
>> axes_grid1.
>> >> >
>> >> > I am concerned about ending up with too many ways to do things, but
>> with
>> >> > subtle differences.
>> >> >
>> >> > How much control over spacing and sizing would be provided by kwargs
>> or
>> >> > other adjustment mechanisms? How would this relate to
>> subplot_params?
>> >> >
>> >> > Eric
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> >
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