[GRASS-dev] numeric-numpy-scipy for graphs?

Hamish hamish_nospam at yahoo.com
Wed Apr 25 00:48:15 EDT 2007


Hamish:
> >>> oh, and by the way, IMO translucency is the neat way to go for
> >>> bubble plots, not sorting by size before rendering and drawing the
> >>> little ones on top (can lead to coin toss overlap results; you
> >>> lose any order/time info in the data).
..
> > For the record, I don't mean to say that sorting isn't a nice
> > short-term solution, it is. Translucency is just a nicer long-term
> > solution.

Moritz Lennert wrote:
> I don't think I agree with this, unless order/time is an important 
> element. For other uses, I still think that ordering is better as you 
> don't lose the color information as you do in your example (see small 
> circle behind large circle at -0.01,-0.01).
> So, I guess, as always, choice rules ;-)

Order may be important. Or not. So yes, choice is good here.


Hamish




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