Re: polar plots, clockwise, north

2009-04-29 Thread enricong
Thank you for your post. I checked and it seems that the library I use (matplotlib) will only plot in a counter-clockwise direction starting at "east". I can rotate the data so that the plot looks correct, however since the library still wants to plot counter- clockwise, it attempts to connect th

Re: polar plots, clockwise, north

2009-04-20 Thread norseman
enric...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks, I had tried this earlier but by rotating the data in this fashion, it has problems connecting the endpoints between 0 and 360 and tries to go counter clockwise around. I am then left with an extra circle in all my plots where it attempts to connect the points be

Re: polar plots, clockwise, north

2009-04-18 Thread enricong
Thanks, I had tried this earlier but by rotating the data in this fashion, it has problems connecting the endpoints between 0 and 360 and tries to go counter clockwise around. I am then left with an extra circle in all my plots where it attempts to connect the points between 360 and 0 (now 100 and

Re: polar plots, clockwise, north

2009-04-16 Thread Tim Roberts
enric...@gmail.com wrote: > >I've been trying to figure out how to do this for a while with >matplotlib. I need to make polar plots which go around clockwise and >have 0deg on top (north) instead of on the side (east). How can this >be done? Is it really that hard? def compass( theta, r, **