added support for cube plot order, qplt, normalising

DPeterK commented 11 years ago

Was asked to test this... found a few things to polish along the way, as reflected here.

So, I've:

added title and x/y labels to the animated plot,
added functionality to use qplt functions by using plt.gcf().clf() to avoid the infinite colorbars and normalised the data to avoid the scale constantly changing, and
allowed plot x/y axes assignment to be determined off of order of coords list passed into the function as some data I was working with was being plotted with the axes the wrong way round.

cpelley commented 11 years ago

thanks @dkillick for doing work on this branch, I had not much time to look back at it

cpelley commented 11 years ago

Good spotting for the axis ordering. I have removed:

 The order of the given coordinates indicates which axis to use for each, where the
        first element is the horizontal axis of the plot and the second
        element is the vertical axis of the plot.

Since specifying the coordinate ordering which goes against the projection would result in indexed-based plotting (i.e. not plotted on a projection anymore). For example if you were to specify latitude then longitude then you may get an indexed based plot, where as specifying a longitude-latitude ordering might result in a plot on the specified projection.

This would definitely be something to consider as an additional change to animate if your interested to look into this further.

cpelley / iris

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