Re: [Matplotlib-users] using .set_clip_path methods

[Denis-Alexander E. <den...@gm...>]

And to anticipate the question, I'm using a recent Anaconda for Mac OS X
with matplotlib version 1.3.1.


On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 4:55 PM, Denis-Alexander Engemann <
den...@gm...> wrote:

> Dear list,
>
> I'm having a very simple use case where I want to clip an image using
> normalized xy coordinates.
> Here 0, 0 would be the middle of the X and Y axes and the radius would be
> 0.5.
> For some reason reason the following code does not achieve what I want:
>
> https://gist.github.com/dengemann/9081fc259ee5d03ffc6a
>
> Instead of masking the area outside of the circle everything is masked.
> It seems as if the clipping workflow would not accept normalized positions
> but inches or pixels instead.
> I've been looking for a unit parameter to set the coord system type or
> something similar but I haven't been successful.
>
> Any hint would be highly appreciated.
>
> Best,
> Denis
>
>