Re: [matplotlib-devel] MEP12: Reorganize example gallery and clean up examples

[Michael D. <md...@st...>]

On 12/12/2012 01:17 PM, Paul Hobson wrote:
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> On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 5:59 AM, Michael Droettboom <md...@st... 
> <mailto:md...@st...>> wrote:
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>     http://matplotlib.org/examples/api/clippath_demo.html
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>     It's perfectly reasonable code, but seems strange that it's
>     clipped off to the corner which I think makes it less useful as an
>     example.
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> If I understand correctly, you're proposing that that such an example 
> would be deleted after a more practical example was available to 
> replace it?
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> While I'm 100% in favor of "cleaning out the closet", I used this 
> exact example two days ago to clip a depressed groundwater surface to 
> a landfill boundary :)
I'm suggesting updating it to be even more useful, and to make the 
thumbnail image more illustrative of the technique that it demonstrates.

Mike