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

[Tony Yu <ts...@gm...>]

On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 11:57 AM, Marcel Oliver <
m.o...@ja...> wrote:

> Paul Hobson writes:
>  > On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 5:59 AM, Michael Droettboom <md...@st...>
> wrote:
>  >
>  >     http://matplotlib.org/examples/api/clippath_demo.html
>  >
>  >     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.
>  >
>  > 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?
>  >
>  > 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 :)
>
> There is one small issue with the example: If one is using imshow on
> random pixel data, there is not reason to use bilinear interpolation
> (which is what imshow defaults to).  "nearest" is the only reasonable
> choice.
>
> I know this sounds pedantic, but it irks me as a numerical analyst...
>
> --Marcel
>

Marcel: I agree examples like this should be changed. Actually, I think the
default interpolation should be changed to "nearest", but that's a whole
different can of worms ;)

For those who are interested, I just posted a pull request for this gallery
clean up <https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/1623>. It's
definitely a work in progress. In particular, the section names are less
than ideal, but I think github's PR interface is a better place for that
discussion than the wiki or mailing list. The new section names can be
found below:

https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/1623/files#L0R86

Also, I moved a number of examples to the new sections in order to
demonstrate some of the clean up guidelines. BTW, one of the examples I
cleaned up is the clippath demo discussed earlier in this thread.

Best,
-Tony

Marcel: Sorry for the second email, I forgot to "reply all" the first time.