[Matplotlib-users] ANN: mplstereonet v0.2 - Stereonets for matplotlib

[Joe K. <jof...@gm...>]

Announcement - mplstereonet v0.2
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mplstereonet provides lower-hemisphere equal-area and equal-angle
stereonets for matplotlib.

Download
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Available for download at: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/mplstereonet/0.2

See the github page for more information and development versions:
https://github.com/joferkington/mplstereonet

About
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Stereonets are a type of plot commonly used in the geosciences for
visualizing and analyzing orientation data.

Orientations of linear and planar features are plotted as the intersection
of the feature with a hemisphere.  (Therefore, linear features plot as
points and planar features plot as lines.)

mplstereonet provides plotting of planes (measured as strikes and dips),
poles to planes, and lineations (measured as rakes along a plane or as
plunges and bearings).

Additionally, mplstereonet provides orientation density contouring using a
variety of standard methods (e.g. "Kamb" contouring, etc).

Getting Started
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The easiest way to get started is to have a look at the examples:
https://github.com/joferkington/mplstereonet/tree/master/examples

Additionally, the readme has an overview and various examples:
https://github.com/joferkington/mplstereonet/blob/master/README.rst

Changes
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New features in version 0.2 include:

- Density contouring of orientation data using a variety of methods
- Equal-angle as well as equal-area stereonets
- A variety of parsing utilities
- Geometric analysis utilities (e.g. plane intersections)

Thank you all very much!
-Joe Kington