Bug report

Bug summary

Adding a shadow to a patch as described in thedocumentation does nothing. From the documentation it appears as ifmatplotlib.patches.Shadow accepts apatch object. I am also not clear on the units of the requiredox andoy properties.

Code for reproduction

importmatplotlib.pyplotaspltimportmatplotlib.patchesasmpatchesfig,ax=plt.subplots(1,1,figsize=(5,5))rectangle=mpatches.Rectangle(xy=(0.25,0.25),width=1/2,height=1/2)shadow=mpatches.Shadow(rectangle,ox=0.5,oy=0.5)ax.add_patch(rectangle)ax.add_patch(shadow)

Actual outcome

Expected outcome

A shadow of the blue rectangle patch nearby.

Matplotlib version

• Operating system: Manjaro 17.0.5
• Matplotlib version: (2.0.2)
• Matplotlib backend: module://ipykernel.pylab.backend_inline
• Python version: 3.6.2

I installedmatplotlib via the Arch package repositories atsudo pacman -S python-matplotlib.

Edit: added a missing import to make the example self-sufficient. (afvincent)