Hi Michael,
Thanks!
This really does the trick. The circles look beautiful and smooth now. ;)
You rock!
Kelvin Quee
Michael Droettboom wrote:
> You can pass in a "marker" argument with a tuple of the form (numsides,
> style, angle) to scatter.
>
> *numsides*:
> the number of sides
>
> *style*:
> the style of the regular symbol:
>
> ===== ==================
> Value Description
> ===== ==================
> 0 a regular polygon
> 1 a star-like symbol
> 2 an asterisk
> ===== ==================
>
> *angle*:
> the angle of rotation of the symbol
>
> For example:
>
> scatter(marker=(100, 0, 0))
>
> You can make "numsides" as high as you need until it's smooth enough at
> the sizes you need.
>
> On a related note, now that matplotlib can use splines to draw circles
> (in the 0.98.x series), matplotlib should probably do that for scatter
> circles. This will require changing some code on our end. This will
> avoid requiring the kind of workaround I suggest above.
>
> Cheers,
> Mike
>
> Kelvin Quee wrote:
>
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> I'm currently trying to plot some Bubble Charts using the scatter plot
>> function.
>>
>> It works beautifully, but the circles drawn are a little too jagged for
>> my liking.
>>
>> I'm following the example shown here -
>>
>> http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/screenshots.html
>> (look for scatter plot)
>>
>> Even in the example picture, you can see slight jagged edges in bigger
>> circles.
>>
>> http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/screenshots/scatter_demo2_large.png
>>
>> Does anyone have a clue on how I can improve the way the bubbles are
>> rendered?
>>
>>
>>
>
>
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