Fixed a mistake with the Hammer projection in the geo module.

WeatherGod · WeatherGod · commit 8de9241e5919 · 2010-11-22T16:05:17.000Z
Thanks to Matthias Plum for reporting and Tobias Winchen for confirming.

svn path=/branches/v1_0_maint/; revision=8808
diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+2010-11-22 Fixed error with Hammer projection. - BVR
+
 2010-11-12 Fixed the placement and angle of axis labels in 3D plots. - BVR
 
 2010-11-07 New rc parameters examples.download and examples.directory
diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/projections/geo.py b/lib/matplotlib/projections/geo.py
@@ -346,7 +346,7 @@ def transform(self, ll):
             cos_latitude = np.cos(latitude)
             sqrt2 = np.sqrt(2.0)
 
-            alpha = 1.0 + cos_latitude * np.cos(half_long)
+            alpha = np.sqrt(1.0 + cos_latitude * np.cos(half_long))
             x = (2.0 * sqrt2) * (cos_latitude * np.sin(half_long)) / alpha
             y = (sqrt2 * np.sin(latitude)) / alpha
             return np.concatenate((x, y), 1)

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	`1`	`+2010-11-22 Fixed error with Hammer projection. - BVR`
	`2`	`+`
`1`	`3`	`2010-11-12 Fixed the placement and angle of axis labels in 3D plots. - BVR`
`2`	`4`
`3`	`5`	`2010-11-07 New rc parameters examples.download and examples.directory`