Re: [Matplotlib-users] ANN: matplotlib-0.65.1

[Paul B. <ba...@st...>]

Stephen Walton wrote:

>On Wed, 2004-12-22 at 17:30 -0600, John Hunter wrote:
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>> - 4x image speedups for large images
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>This is a biggie!!  Ladies and gentlemen, my impression is that imshow
>is now at least as fast as, and perhaps faster than, DS9 for
>astronomical image display.  (I'm looking at 1024 square full disk solar
>images.)  Nice job, John.
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I therefore propose that we start developing a Python version of DS9. 
The benefits of a Python version based on matplotlib are TrueType fonts 
(with arbitrary text rotation), alpha blending, and direct support for 
numarray.

 -- Paul

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