Jeff Whitaker wrote:
> Ian Curington wrote:
>> 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!
> Ian: Matplotlib's contour cannot do this (although I believe the
> underlying c code does have this capability). I think it would be a
Although contouring routines often do subdivide the rectilinear grid
into triangles, and use those triangles to calculate the contours, the
cntr.c routine in mpl does not. It does everything using only the
original rectilinear grid.
Eric
> useful addition. For right now, however, your workaround is the best
> solution.
>
> PyNGL (http://www.pyngl.ucar.edu/Graphics/contour_grids.shtml) can
> contour triangular meshes, if you'd like to give that a try.
>
> -Jeff
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