Re: [matplotlib-devel] Custom plot_trisurf triangulations

[Damon M. <dam...@gm...>]

On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 6:21 PM, Ian Thomas <ian...@gm...> wrote:
> I am happy with option 3 too, but I don't think you need to do as much as
> this.  The existing 2d triplot/tripcolor/tricontour call
> Triangulation.get_from_args_and_kwargs, which removes the various
> args/kwargs needed for the triangulation and leaves the remainder for the
> calling function to process.  For example lib/matplotlib/tri/tricontour.py
> lines 86 to 88:
>
> tri, args, kwargs = \
>     Triangulation.get_from_args_and_kwargs(*args, **kwargs)
> z = np.asarray(args[0])
>
> Can't you just do the same here, or am I missing something?

Ah ok, I see. I was assuming a plot_trisurf(x, y, z, triangles, ...)
signature. Copying the tricontour signature would be better for
consistency reasons. It appears that I was the one missing something!

Thanks for that.

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