Re: [matplotlib-devel] Polar plots

[John H. <jdh...@ac...>]

>>>>> "Roberto" == Roberto De Almeida <ral...@gm...> writes:

    Roberto> Hi, I was wondering about the status of polar plots --
    Roberto> the website says only "work underway" If no one is
    Roberto> working on this, I'm interested on implement polar plots
    Roberto> (and also imshow, pcolor, etc).

The work in progress claim is a bit overstated.  If you search the
user's mailing list for polar, you'll see some code that was posted
that essentially provides a poorman's polar plot.  It makes plot that
roughly do the right things vis-a-vis polar, but to "do it right (tm)"
you'll need to implement a polar axis class, derived from the Axis
base class (eg use patch.Circle to draw the theta axis).  A polar
transform class is defined in the _transforms module.  Among the other
changes, you'll want to set the default transform for polar axes.

If you decide you want to jump in, let me know and I'll write a more
long winded email about what I think is involved, bearing in mind that
I haven't actually implemented any of this code so my comments should
be taken with a grain of salt.  

I'm not clear about the context of your mention of imshow and pcolor;
could you elaborate?

JDH