Re: [Matplotlib-users] who's in front

[Peter G. <pgr...@ge...>]

Perry Greenfield wrote:

>John Hunter wrote:
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>>Earlier the subject of how to draw ticks and grids for image data was
>>brought up.  The problem was that images obscure the ticks.  This can
>>be fixed by drawing the ticks after the rest of the axes.  The
>>question I am considering now is whether the grids should also be
>>drawn last.  This applies to image and non image axes.  If, on a line
>>plot or bar plot, should the grids be in front of or behind your data?
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>>Another possibility would be to put the grids in front with a semi
>>transparent alpha, so you could see your data through them.  Of
>>course, on backends like postscript which don't have an alpha channel,
>>this wouldn't work.
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>>Any preferences?
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>For images the grid should definitely be drawn after the image
>is displayed (I'm having trouble thinking of anything that
>shouldn't be done over an image). For line plots, grids
>should go behind the data imho.
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I agree.

I have little preference about tics for lines, but perhaps like the grid 
- behind might be better.

Peter