Re: [matplotlib-devel] Alternative way of specifying plot layout

[Benjamin R. <ben...@ou...>]

Also, perhaps it makes sense to make this a MEP to finalize and document
the spec?

On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 1:42 PM, Benjamin Root <ben...@ou...> wrote:

> That is neat. I would be sure to put in some "..seealso::" lines in places
> like plt.subplots and GridSpec and such.
>
> A thought... could this perhaps be extended somehow to specify colorbars
> in the layout? I am not sure how I would do that, but if we could come up
> with a way to do it, *that* would make this a killer feature. But even
> without that, this is still pretty useful.
>
> On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 1:20 PM, Thomas Caswell <tca...@gm...>
> wrote:
>
>> Cool.  I think it make sense to put this in to `pyplot.py` next to
>> `subplots`
>>
>> Tom
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 1:14 PM Nicolas P. Rougier <
>> Nic...@in...> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I've been experimenting with a simple idea for specifying plot layout in
>>> a rather intuitive way.
>>> The idea is simply to "draw" your layout using strings.
>>>
>>> Examples:
>>>
>>> layout = ["AB"]
>>> -> means two plots side by side with equal width
>>>
>>> layout = ["AAAB"]
>>> -> means two plots side by side A being 3 times wider than B
>>>
>>> layout = ["AB",
>>>           "CC"]
>>> -> means two plots (A & B) side by side and C below with full width
>>>
>>> layout = ["AB",
>>>           "C "]
>>> -> means two plots (A & B) side by side and C below A (same width)
>>>
>>> etc... (have a look at sources)
>>>
>>> I guess you cannot express every layout but it might work for most
>>> common ones.
>>>
>>> If you think this might a good addition I can try to make a PR but I'm
>>> not sure where to insert it.
>>> My idea would be to have a layout function such that you can write:
>>>
>>> A,B,C = plt.layout(["AB", "CC"], border=0.01)
>>> A.plot(...)
>>> B.plot(...)
>>> C.plot(...)
>>>
>>>
>>> Nicolas
>>>
>>>
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