MEP24: Negative radius in polar plots#

• Status

• Branches and Pull requests

• Abstract

• Detailed description

• Implementation

• Related Issues

• Backward compatibility

• Alternatives

Status#

Discussion

Branches and Pull requests#

None

Abstract#

It is clear that polar plots need to be able to gracefully handle negative r values (not by clipping or reflection).

Detailed description#

One obvious application that we should support is bB plots (see matplotlib/matplotlib#1730), but this seems more generally useful (for example growth rate as a function of angle). The assumption in the current code (as I understand it) is that the center of the graph is r==0, however it would be good to be able to set the center to be at any r (with any value less than the offset clipped).

Implementation#

Related Issues#

#1730, #1603, #2203, #2133

Backward compatibility#

Alternatives#