Stereonets with Matplotlib

[Thomas Lecocq]

From the Matplotlib mailing list, might be interesting for some of us:

Cheers,
Thomas
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Announcement - mplstereonet v0.2
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mplstereonet provides lower-hemisphere equal-area and equal-angle
stereonets for matplotlib.

Download
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Available for download at: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/mplstereonet/0.2

See the github page for more information and development versions:
https://github.com/joferkington/mplstereonet

About
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Stereonets are a type of plot commonly used in the geosciences for
visualizing and analyzing orientation data.

Orientations of linear and planar features are plotted as the
intersection of the feature with a hemisphere. (Therefore, linear
features plot as points and planar features plot as lines.)

mplstereonet provides plotting of planes (measured as strikes and dips),
poles to planes, and lineations (measured as rakes along a plane or as
plunges and bearings).

Additionally, mplstereonet provides orientation density contouring using
a variety of standard methods (e.g. "Kamb" contouring, etc).

Getting Started
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The easiest way to get started is to have a look at the examples:
https://github.com/joferkington/mplstereonet/tree/master/examples

Additionally, the readme has an overview and various examples:
https://github.com/joferkington/mplstereonet/blob/master/README.rst

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Dr. Thomas Lecocq
Geologist
Seismology - Gravimetry @ ROB

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