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[Matplotlib-users] Question: MatPlotLib vs. PyX

[Rich S. <rsh...@ap...>]

   No challenge here, just a lack of knowledge.

   My application will be writing a progress log to a text file as it chews on
the data and spits out the bones. Among the lines of text that document how
input data are used to produce the output will be plots of the
under-generation solution fuzzy set (a simple 2D plot). Also, I want the text
to be in LaTeX (and the plots to be in a compatible format; e.g., .eps or
.pdf) so the report can be printed with pdflatex.

   I just looked at the PyX web site and it appears that there is similarity
in abilities -- for my needs, at least -- between matplotlib and pyx. What
are the relative advantages of each?

   Your advice, suggestions, thoughts, and other contributions are solicited.

TIA,

Rich

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Re: [Matplotlib-users] Question: MatPlotLib vs. PyX

[Alan G I. <ai...@am...>]

On Mon, 16 Jan 2006, Rich Shepard apparently wrote: 
> I just looked at the PyX web site and it appears that 
> there is similarity in abilities -- for my needs, at least 
> -- between matplotlib and pyx. What are the relative 
> advantages of each? 

> Your advice, suggestions, thoughts, and other 
> contributions are solicited. 

I find that I draw in PyX but use Matplotlib for data.  If 
you have some familiarity with PostScript, PyX should be 
very intuitive.  It has some really wonderful drawing 
features.  My needs are almost always static, so 
Matplotlib's interactive and animation capabilities have not 
(yet) proved determinative for me.  For data, especially 
time series data, I can no longer imagine doing without 
Matplotlib.  It is brilliant.

Cheers,
Alan Isaac

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Question: MatPlotLib vs. PyX

[Rich S. <rsh...@ap...>]

On Mon, 16 Jan 2006, Alan G Isaac wrote:

> I find that I draw in PyX but use Matplotlib for data. If you have some
> familiarity with PostScript, PyX should be very intuitive. It has some
> really wonderful drawing features. My needs are almost always static, so
> Matplotlib's interactive and animation capabilities have not (yet) proved
> determinative for me. For data, especially time series data, I can no
> longer imagine doing without Matplotlib. It is brilliant.

Alan,

   Thanks very much. I've done several figures with PSTricks for use in LaTeX
docs and beamer-class presentations. Our need now is to generate plots from
data, not manually drawn. From your description I'll keep PyX in mind, but
use matplotlib for now.

Rich

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Re: [Matplotlib-users] Question: MatPlotLib vs. PyX

[Christopher B. <Chr...@no...>]

Rich Shepard wrote:
>   Thanks very much. I've done several figures with PSTricks for use in 
> LaTeX
> docs and beamer-class presentations. Our need now is to generate plots from
> data, not manually drawn. From your description I'll keep PyX in mind, but
> use matplotlib for now.

Also, MPL can be embedded in GUI apps, and I like to use the same tool 
if I can for both generating plots for documents, and GUI apps, and web 
images.

-Chris


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