[Matplotlib-users] Pcolormesh vs contourf

[Jody Klymak]

Hi Eric, Sameer

> I view the way pcolormesh handles x and y as fundamental, so I am reluctant to add an option to interpolate/extrapolate a pixel-centered grid to the the edge grid that pcolormesh absolutely requires.  In the simplest cases, such as a uniform rectangular grid, such a transformation is straightforward, but in the more general cases that pcolormesh handles, it is not; there is no single algorithm that would "do the right thing" in all cases.

Maybe I’ve misunderstood, but in 1.5.x, if I run pcolormesh with len(x) = m, len(y) = n and size(z) = m,n then it works just fine (like matlab’s implimentation).  its great that it also does m+1 and n+1, but I think it does the “easy” thing.  Maybe in 2.0 this has changed?  

To the original question: pcolormesh(x,y,z,rasterized=True) is your friend if m and n are large and you want to print things.

Cheers,   Jody

> There is scope for making it easier to do common things, but rather than fold it into functions like pcolormesh, I think it is better to break it out into standalone grid manipulation functions.
> 
> We also have a NonuniformImage class that handles irregular (and regular) rectangular pixel-centered grids, and can be used directly. That class needs an Axes method and a pyplot function.
> 
> Eric
> 
>> 
>> It's not hard to do but something that could be considered if there are
>> enough use cases.
>> 
>> Sameer
>> 
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