Matplotlib Sprint¶

We’ll be doing a sprint starting around 10AM on matplotlib. There aren’t a fixed set of topics yet, but please joing a discussion on matplotlib-users or matplotlib-devel if you have some specific ideas, or just add it to the wiki.

We have a list of official goals at http://matplotlib.sf.net/goals.html page and we could try to pick off as many of these as possible. Here are some things of particular interest to me (John Hunter)

Topic ideas

• contribute to the user’s guide

• support arbitrary clipping paths

• gradient fills for polygons

• provide mathtext fonts that don’t have the licensing restrictions

  • of bakoma, eg the umbellek fonts

• unicode support / internationalization

• expose latex/tex when available for mathtext rendering

• expose agg drawing primitives (paths, etc) directly.

• mapping and projection utilities

• pygtk/matplotlib/ipython integration: build a gtk widget to embed as a shell in gtk apps

  • bonus marks, do it in a way that is backend independent.

• provide an extension code method to blit the agg canvas to wx for wxagg

• add your favorite plot type!

Participants

• John Hunter <jdhunter@ace.bsd.uchicago.edu>

• John Gill

• Michael Twomey