Re: [Matplotlib-users] Plotting multiline graph with large dataset (6 lines, about 30, 000, 000 points total

[Alan G I. <ala...@gm...>]

On 2/10/2010 1:17 PM, Oz Nahum wrote:
> This is really crazy ploting so many data point, after all the human
> eye can't separate all the data.


Following up on Oz's point ...
let's suppose that is 5M points for each of the 6 lines,
and that you will try to place them on a 5 inch wide axis.
That is 1M plotted points per horizontal inch.
Here is a list of typical monitor pixel densities:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_displays_by_pixel_density

Alan Isaac