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<h2>Goals for matplotlib</h2>
Here is a growing list, and status updates, of things that I think
need to be done to achieve a useful, publication quality 2D plotting
library. If you have any suggestions, additions or comments,
email me @myemail@ or the mailing list.<p>
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Goals
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Status
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Allow arbitrary location, size and number of axes
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<td @td_done@>
Done. Use <a href=matplotlib.matlab.html#-subplot>subplot</a> for making
regular grids of axes and <a href=matplotlib.matlab.html#-axes>axes</a>
for custom placment
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<td>
Allow full control of axes lines, tick lines, and grid lines.
Eg, location, color, line style, line width, etc, should be
under full control
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<td @td_done@>
Almost done. You can specify the linewidth and color of the
tick lines, axis lines and grid lines. You now have full
control of the line attributes for the axes lines.
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<tr> <td> Support arbitrary location, rotation and fonts for axis text
</td> <td @td_partial@> Partially done. This is backend dependent.
The GD and PS backends support arbitrary rotations. The GTK
backend still only supports 'horizontal' and 'vertical'. Full font
support (font family, font angle, font weight, font size) is
available for all backends; see <a href=fonts.html>fonts</a>.</td>
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Plot legends
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<td @td_done@>
Done, matlab compatible legends added in CVS after 0.29. See
<a href=examples/legend_demo.py>legend_demo.py</a> and the <a
href=matplotlib.matlab.html#-legend>legend</a> command.
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<td>
Allow high resolution printing to a variety of output formats
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<td @td_done@> As of version 0.29, matplotlib now supports
multiple backend renders, including GTK, GD and postscript with
arbitrary resolutions-- see <a href="backends.html">output
devices</a> </td> </tr>
<tr> <td> Allow interactive control of plot </td>
<td @td_partial@> An improved interactive command line environment
is provided interactive2.py, which allows you to use
matplotlib interactively from the prompt, though there are
still some problems with this interpreter in the way it
handles cutting and pasting of text directly into the
interpreter. Also, it would be nicer if there were a way to
do this w/o forcing users to use a custom interpreter, but I
don't see how to right now. See also interactive.py.</td>
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<td>
Support a richer char set for labeling, eg greek letters, as
well as sub and superscripts
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<td @td_remaining@>
No progress here yet. It would be nice to support a large
subset of LaTeX commands, as matlab does.
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Support log scaling
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<td @td_done@> Added as of matplotlib-0.30. See <a
href=matplotlib.matlab.html#-semilogx>semilogx</a>, <a
href=matplotlib.matlab.html#-semilogy>semilogy</a>, and <a
href=matplotlib.matlab.html#-loglog>loglog</a>, and demo <a
href=examples/log_demo.py>log_demo.py</a> </td> </tr>
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Add more patch commands, like pcolor
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<td @td_partial@> <a
href=matplotlib.matlab.html#-pcolor>pcolor</a> added. See<a
href=screenshots.html#pcolor_demo>pcolor_demo</a> and <a
href=screenshots.html#mri_with_eeg>mri_with_eeg</a> for
screenshots and <a
href=examples/pcolor_demo.py>pcolor_demo.py</a> for some
example code. On the list to do: contour.
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Add 3D plot commands
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<td @td_remaining@>
After all the above goals are met (around matplotlib 1.0),
I'll add 3D plotting with a VTK backend.
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