Re: [Matplotlib-users] Matplotlib performance

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

On Fri, 29 Feb 2008, mat...@on... apparently wrote:
> I'm trying to plot a current trace from a physics 
> experiment, containing about 300,000 data points. 

You may find this off topic, since you seem to mean by "plot 
a current trace" something different than I'm familiar with.

Suppose I have a 1280×1028 monitor and I'm willing
to have really tiny 9-pixel points to represent an 
observation. Then I can display 1280×1028/9 distinct
points, about half as many as you want, and cover
the entire monitor.

So perhaps your question is really about the appropriate way 
to radically down-sample your data?

Cheers,
Alan Isaac