.. _toolkits-index: .. toctree:: :hidden: axes_grid/index.rst mplot3d/index.rst ######## Toolkits ######## .. htmlonly:: :Release: |version| :Date: |today| .. _toolkits: Toolkits are collections of application-specific functions that extend matplotlib. .. _toolkit_basemap: Basemap ======= Plots data on map projections, with continental and political boundaries, see `basemap `_ docs. .. _toolkit_gtk: GTK Tools ========= mpl_toolkits.gtktools provides some utilities for working with GTK. This toolkit ships with matplotlib, but requires `pygtk `_. .. _toolkit_excel: Excel Tools =========== mpl_toolkits.exceltools provides some utilities for working with Excel. This toolkit ships with matplotlib, but requires `xlwt `_ .. _toolkit_natgrid: Natgrid ======== mpl_toolkits.natgrid is an interface to natgrid C library for gridding irregularly spaced data. This requires a separate installation of the natgrid toolkit from the sourceforge `download `_ page. .. _toolkit_mplot3d: mplot3d =========== mpl_toolkits.mplot3d provides some basic 3D plotting (scatter, surf, line, mesh) tools. Not the fastest or feature complete 3D library out there, but ships with matplotlib and thus may be a lighter weight solution for some use cases. See :ref:`toolkit_mplot3d-index` for more documentation and examples. .. _toolkit_axes_grid: AxesGrid ======== The matplotlib AxesGrid toolkit is a collection of helper classes to ease displaying multiple images in matplotlib. The AxesGrid toolkit is distributed with matplotlib source. .. image:: ../_static/demo_axes_grid.png See :ref:`toolkit_axesgrid-index` for documentations.