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Author: melissawm

doc/users/explain/architecture.rst

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 Matplotlib architecture
 =======================
 
+**What is the goal of this file?**
+**Who is this for?**
+
 .. _article: https://www.aosabook.org/en/matplotlib.html
 .. _blog: https://medium.datadriveninvestor.com/data-visualization-with-python-matplotlib-architecture-6b05af533569
 .. _she06: Maxim Shemanarev. Anti-Grain Geometry: A high quality rendering engine for C++, 2002-2006.
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 There are two types of Artists: *primitive* and *composite* artists.
 
-**Primitive artists** represent the kinds of objects you see in a plot: Line2D, Rectangle, Circle, and Text. Composite artists are collections of Artists such as the Axis, Tick, Axes, and Figure. Each composite artist may contain other composite artists as well as primitive artists. For example, the Figure contains one or more composite Axes and the background of the Figure is a primitive Rectangle.
+**Primitive artists** represent the kinds of objects you see in a plot: Line2D, Rectangle, Circle, and Text. Composite artists are collections of Artists such as the Axis, Tick, Axes, and Figure. Each composite artist may contain other composite artists as well as primitive artists. For example, the Figure contains one or more composite Axes and the background of the Figure is a primitive Rectangle.
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+
+Melissa Weber Mendonça
+@melissawm
+ago 25 14:50
+Also general question: are there any recorded (written, video, talks, MEPs other than https://matplotlib.org/stable/devel/MEP/MEP27.html) discussions that describe the future of pyplot?
+Thomas A Caswell
+@tacaswell
+ago 25 15:00
+https://paper.dropbox.com/doc/Matplotlib-4.0--Bn6NlHktvleckp57ZJu~vODCAg-WTYwd0NQaSHTjtLUZwkNx has some ideas that eventually turned into the CZI grants
+Thomas A Caswell
+@tacaswell
+ago 25 15:01
+https://github.com/matplotlib/mpl-gui is working code that re-implements the "good parts" of pyplot
+Thomas A Caswell
+@tacaswell
+ago 25 15:02
+and pyplot, as is, is worst case going to stay frozen in amber exactly as it is. There is way too much code out in the wild (both in production and in tutorials / SO answers / mailinglist+discourse discussions) to even contemplate major changes.
+Thomas A Caswell
+@tacaswell
+ago 25 15:04
+There a fair amount of value to having, effectively, an application that looks like pyplot's API. I think it will be an interesting exercise to after the NASA grant and the changes to the lower levels to see if we can conceive of a better "pyplot"-a-like