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

[Nicolas P. R. <Nic...@in...>]

Ok. I'll wait for the MEP directory to start writing a proposal.
Here is a flavor of what I think could be done (to be seen using a fixed width font):


"AB":
┌────────┐┌────────┐
│ A      ││ B      │
│        ││        │
│        ││        │
└────────┘└────────┘

"ABB":
┌──────┐┌──────────┐
│ A    ││ B        │
│      ││          │
│      ││          │
└──────┘└──────────┘

"ABD"
"CCD":
┌───────┐┌───────┐┌───────┐
│ A     ││ B     ││ D     │
│       ││       ││       │
│       ││       ││       │
└───────┘└───────┘│       │
┌────────────────┐│       │
│ C              ││       │
│                ││       │
└────────────────┘└───────┘

"AaBb":
┌───────┐┌─┐┌───────┐┌─┐
│ A     ││ ││ B     ││ │
│       ││ ││       ││ │
│       ││ ││       ││ │
└───────┘└─┘└───────┘└─┘

"  b  "
"aABCc":
            ┌───────┐
            └───────┘
┌─┐┌───────┐┌───────┐┌───────┐┌─┐
│ ││ A     ││ B     ││ C     ││ │
│ ││       ││       ││       ││ │
│ ││       ││       ││       ││ │
└─┘└───────┘└───────┘└───────┘└─┘




> On 19 Mar 2015, at 15:34, Benjamin Root <ben...@ou...> wrote:
> 
> two problems with that: 1) that really doesn't make me want to use this approach, especially since I wouldn't know what ratios I would want in the first place. 2) it can't tell if I want a horizontal or vertical colorbar, whereas the lower-case notation could have some logic to auto-detect the user's intent (e.g., all lower-case letters in the last row indicates horizontal bars). It would also allow us to return the plotting axes separate from the colorbar axes, which is how axes_grid1 does it, and it is very nice that way.
> 
> On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 6:31 AM, Nicolas P. Rougier <Nic...@in...> wrote:
> 
> I think you could specify colorbars using: ["AAAAAAAAAB"]
> (B is a vertical colorbar, 1/10 of total width)
> 
> Nicolas
> 
> 
> 
> > On 18 Mar 2015, at 18:52, Eric Firing <ef...@ha...> wrote:
> >
> > On 2015/03/18 7:42 AM, Benjamin Root wrote:
> >> A thought... could this perhaps be extended somehow to specify colorbars
> >> in the layout?
> >
> > A lower-case letter could indicate a colorbar-size Axes:
> >
> > layout = ["ABc",
> >           "DE ",
> >           "ff "]
> >
> > would put a vertical think axes to the right of B, and a double-wide
> > hoizontal one below D and E.
> >
> > All of this seems like an alternative API for gridspec and axes_grid1.
> >
> > I am concerned about ending up with too many ways to do things, but with
> > subtle differences.
> >
> > How much control over spacing and sizing would be provided by kwargs or
> > other adjustment mechanisms?  How would this relate to subplot_params?
> >
> > Eric
> >
> >
> >
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