Re: [Matplotlib-users] Ovality of a perturbed circular path

[Matt F. <mat...@gm...>]

On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 7:11 AM, Nils Wagner
<nw...@ia...> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I would like to visualize the ovality of a perturbed
> circular path by a polar plot.
> How can I improve the view wrt to scaling and ticks ?

Is:

from pylab import ylim, ytics

figure(2)
polar(theta,(r+noise)/r)
ylim(0, 2)
yticks(arange(0, 2, 0.25))
show()

The kind of thing you're after?

Cheers,

Matt

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