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Does anyone have extensions or hints on how to create high quality vector
contour plots on unstructured triangle meshes, with values at nodes? I can
convert to structured with griddata, but I much prefer to get a direct
contour from the original triangles. Thanks!

On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 4:17 AM, Thomas Guettler <hv...@tb...> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to change the font size of x ticks labels.
> The FAQ entry is only for pylab:
> http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/faq.html#TEXTOVERLAP
>
> I found this solution:
>
> for tick in ax.xaxis.get_major_ticks():
> tick.label1.set_fontsize(7.5)
> (http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/~jbattat/computer/python/pylab/)
>
> What is the prefered way? Maybe without a loop...
There is no preferred way -- the loop is the object oriented pythonic
matplotlib API, the set call is the matlab-like procedural interface.
Both are and will continue to be supported. Note that the FAQ is out
of date since the set function (a matlab name) is now called setp to
avoid clashing with the python built-in set
Personally, I use
 for label in ax.get_xticklabels() + ax.get_yticklabels():
 label.set_fontsize(12)
You can also set the defaults with your rc settings
 import matplotlib
 matplotlib.rc('xtick', labelsize=12)
 matplotlib.rc('ytick', labelsize=12)
which will affect all subsequent figures.
JDH

Hi,
I want to change the font size of x ticks labels.
The FAQ entry is only for pylab:
http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/faq.html#TEXTOVERLAP
I found this solution:
 for tick in ax.xaxis.get_major_ticks():
 tick.label1.set_fontsize(7.5)
 (http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/~jbattat/computer/python/pylab/)
What is the prefered way? Maybe without a loop...
 Thomas
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Mathew Yeates wrote:
> Hi Jeff
>
> I took a look and I'm still confused. Do you happen to have any code 
> that goes Geodetic (lat,lon) to Geocentric (lat,lon)?
>
> Thanks
> Mathew
Mathew: No, and I must confess I don't even know what that means. You 
might check the proj4 docs and/or mailing list 
(http://trac.osgeo.org/proj/). pyproj is a wrapper for the proj4 C library.
-Jeff
>
> Jeff Whitaker wrote:
>> Mathew Yeates wrote:
>>> Hi
>>> Are there any modules in matplotlib for coordinate transformations. 
>>> In particular, I want to go from geodetic to WGS-84.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Mathew
>>>
>>> 
>> Mathew: The pyproj module is included in the basemap toolkit and can 
>> be accessed with
>>
>> from mpl_toolkits.basemap import pyproj
>>
>> To see how to use it look at the docs for the Proj class at 
>> http://pyproj.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/README.html.
>>
>> If you don't want to install the whole Basemap toolkit (a 100 mb 
>> download) you can just install the pyproj module from
>>
>> http://code.google.com/p/pyproj
>>
>> -Jeff
>>
>
>
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