RE: [matplotlib-devel] Contour and Vector Plots

[Perry G. <pe...@st...>]

> Hi again,
>
> Yes, I had the thought that using C for the algorithm would be easier as
> well.  There are actually some very well-written marching squares
> contouring algorithms in C already out there.  I will try to find such an
> implementation and point you to it or send you the source code.
>
Thanks, that would be helpful. In my search I didn't come across many.
Keep in mind the license needs to be compatible with that of matplotlib.

> The second half is just the drawing, which should be implemented in
> matplotlib using the line collections class.  Since vector plotting is not

Yeah, that's what we have in mind.

> that hard, I will try to get that working first.  Then, someone can take
> my source code and adapt it easily to the contouring problem, once an
> effective and sufficiently high-performance algorithm implementation can
> be found.
>
> Cheers,
> Curtis
>
OK, Perry