Issue plotting big endian images #6671
Description
Originally reported by Anik Halder on the mailing list http://matplotlib.1069221.n5.nabble.com/IPython-FITS-file-plotting-problem-tp47271.html
Consider this simple example:
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np
x = np.arange(10)
X, Y = np.meshgrid(x,x)
Z = ((X-5)**2 + (Y-5)**2)**0.5
plt.imshow(Z, origin = "lower")
plt.colorbar()
plt.show()
plt.figure()
plt.imshow(Z.astype('>f8'), origin = "lower")
plt.colorbar()
plt.show()Which produces:
And:
This works correctly in 1.5.1 so it looks like it's a regression in 2.x