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Help page on concepts and mechanisms in matplotlib #9967

@timhoffm

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@timhoffm

Feature request

We do not have a description of the concepts and mechanisms used in matplotlib. Some information is available in the respective classes or in examples. But I haven't found a concise overview giving the big picture.

It would be valuable for users (and also developers) to have a single help page collecting this information.

In particular:

Elements of a plot

  • Figure
  • Axes
  • Axis
  • Artists
  • Patches
  • ...

Coordinates and scaling

  • Figure / Axes / Data coordinates
  • Bbox
  • aspect handling (original and active axes positions)
  • transforms
  • ...

The above are just the topics that came to my mind right now. It's work in progress and I plan to work on this later on. Comments and additions are welcome.

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