Re: [Matplotlib-users] XKCD style graphs?

[Damon M. <dam...@gm...>]

On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 10:13 AM, Matthias BUSSONNIER
<bus...@gm...> wrote:
>
> Le 4 oct. 2012 à 23:09, Juergen Hasch a écrit :
>
>> Here is my take on it as an IPython notebook, based on Damon's code:
>> http://nbviewer.ipython.org/3835181/
>>
>> I took the engineering approach and filtered the random function instead of doing some fft/ifft magic.
>> Also, X and Y of the functions are affected now, giving them a more "natural" look in the slopes.
>>
>>   Juergen
>
> If anyone have time to make some examples and a right side thumbnail
> I can make it as featured notebook in the front page of nbviewer.
>
> You can even make a direct PR agains nbviewer and I would then just have
> to merge and deploy.
>
> To be fair, notebook should also give some explanation of the code,
> link to this discussion, maybe show one "original" xkcd graph.
>
> Please take your time, and if there is several submission,
> we'll sort out how to choose the best(s).
>
> --
> Matthias
>
>>
>>
>> Am 04.10.2012 18:09, schrieb Pierre Haessig:
>>> Le 04/10/2012 16:35, Pierre Haessig a écrit :
>>>> So I think this code indeed resamples the rastered plot image on a
>>>> shaken coordinate grid. I kind of understand that the noise on
>>>> coordinates is spatially smoothed by a 10px Gaussian Point Spread
>>>> Function (if I understand correctly...)
>>> I've implemented this processing in a tiny "image_shake" script.
>>> https://gist.github.com/3834536
>>> A nice occasion to learn how to use some scipy image processing functions...
>>>
>>> I've attached the before/after images because I didn't manage to put
>>> them in the Gist (it's not a plot image but gives the idea of line shaking).
>>>
>>> Now, I think it's unfortunately outside the frame of Fernando's
>>> challenge, because this script uses zero matplotlib methods!!
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Pierre

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