Re: [Matplotlib-users] Matplotlib performance

[John H. <jd...@gm...>]

On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 10:21 AM, Onno Broekmans
<mat...@on...> wrote:

>  Thanks for your reply! I agree that under normal circumstances,
>  downsampling would be a good thing to do. However, in this case, it's
>  really about the tiny details in the trace, so I'd like to zoom in on
>  a small part of the data, and then scroll through it. This is already
>  possible with Matplotlib, but is very slow...

Note that with the clipped line approach I suggested, you can have the
best of both worlds.  Downsampl when N>20000 or some appropriate
number, and plot the full data when you zoom.

JDH