@@ -55,7 +55,6 @@ simplification) and another style for publication quality plotting
5555:doc: `/tutorials/introductory/customizing ` for instructions on
5656how to perform these actions.
5757
58-
5958The simplification works by iteratively merging line segments
6059into a single vector until the next line segment's perpendicular
6160distance to the vector (measured in display-coordinate space)
@@ -67,18 +66,14 @@ is greater than the ``path.simplify_threshold`` parameter.
6766 parameters prior to 2.1, but rendering time for some kinds of
6867 data will be vastly improved in versions 2.1 and greater.
6968
70- Marker simplification
71- ---------------------
72-
73- Markers can also be simplified, albeit less robustly than
74- line segments. Marker simplification is only available
75- to:class: `~matplotlib.lines.Line2D ` objects (through the
76- ``markevery `` property). Wherever
77- :class: `~matplotlib.lines.Line2D ` construction parameters
78- are passed through, such as
79- :func: `matplotlib.pyplot.plot ` and
80- :meth: `matplotlib.axes.Axes.plot `, the ``markevery ``
81- parameter can be used::
69+ Marker subsampling
70+ ------------------
71+
72+ Markers can also be simplified, albeit less robustly than line
73+ segments. Marker subsampling is only available to `.Line2D ` objects
74+ (through the ``markevery `` property). Wherever `.Line2D ` construction
75+ parameters are passed through, such as `.pyplot.plot ` and `.Axes.plot `,
76+ the ``markevery `` parameter can be used::
8277
8378 plt.plot(x, y, markevery=10)
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