NumPy Folks, Would someone please discuss or point me to a discussion about the discrepancy in size vs shape in the following MWE? In this example I have used a grayscale PNG version of the ImageMagick logo, but any image which is not square will do.
$ python Python 2.7.4 (default, Apr 19 2013, 18:28:01) [GCC 4.7.3] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import Image >>> import matplotlib.pyplot as plt >>> >>> s = 'logo.png' >>> >>> im = Image.open(s) >>> ar = plt.imread(s) >>> >>> im.size (640, 480) >>> >>> ar.shape (480, 640) >>> The extents/shape of the NumPy array (as loaded by matplotlib, but this convention seems uniform through NumPy) are transposed from what seems to be the usual convention. Why was this choice made? Brady _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
