RE: [Matplotlib-users] Bug with setting axis limits

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

John Hunter writes:
> >>>>> "Srinath" == Srinath Avadhanula <sr...@fa...> writes:
> 
>     Srinath> Besides whether or not its a common enough situation is
>     Srinath> very application specific. I was planning to use
>     Srinath> matplotlib to display a complex layout.  At the original
>     Srinath> scale, not much can be seen. There necessarily has to be
>     Srinath> a lot of scaling to see the details.
> 
> Well, it's not complex scaling that causes troubles.  The case where
> you see this failure is when you are drawing a connected line between
> two points where one or both of the points is far outside the view
> limits.
> 
Is the essence of the issue here whether clipping is working
properly, in particular, the backend clipping? I would have
thought that backend clipping should handle this properly.
For which backends does it not? If it doesn't for some,
perhaps the issue is to supply our own software clipping;
algorithm (possibly much slower though) as an option.

Perry