[Matplotlib-users] Line clipping on subplot border mandatory?

[Lars M. <moe...@gm...>]

Wonderful, thanks - that was far too easy to be 
thought of :)

Cheers,
Nix

On 05/30/2011 05:21 AM, Benjamin Root wrote:

> >  On Monday, May 30, 2011, Mondsuechtiger<el_...@gm...>   wrote:
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>> >>  Hello,
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>> >>  I would like to stack subplots in a figure with a couple of basic
>> >>  x,y-line plots with the subplot frames removed.
>> >>  But possible overlap of subplots is limited, because the drawn data
>> >>  lines are clipped on the border, if you'd lets say manually reset the
>> >>  ylims and decrease it below the highest data y-values.
>> >>  I know it is possible with any kind of text or data annotation, but do
>> >>  not find a way to let the data lines cross the frame border.
You can cross the Axes frame border by turning off clipping:

ll = plot([-1, 1])[0]
axis([0.1, 0.95, -1, 1])
ll.set_clip_on(False)
draw()

Eric



>> >>
>> >>  I hope I made myself halfway clear - pls. don't hesitate to ask if not.
>> >>  Does one of you possibly have a solution or is it maybe plain
>> >>  impossible?
>> >>  Thanks!
>> >>
>> >>  Cheers,
>> >>  Nix
> >
> >  Maybe you want to use matplotlib's spine feature?  You are right that
> >  you can't plot outside the plotable region, but maybe you can emulate
> >  what you want by moving the axes lines into the plottable region.
> >
> >  I hope that helps!
> >
> >  Ben Root
> >