GUI programming with Matplotlib, Tkinter and threads

This is probably old hat for most python programmers, but it just never became important enough for me until now. I'm currently writing a script for calculating A WHOLE BUNCH of radiative transfer models, and needed a way to visualize my results right away so I could tune my experiment at run-time. (For those who have some idea on model calculations, I'm searching a HUGE parameter space, and needed some quick-n-dirty methods to find my way around)

Eventually I ended up building a GUI frontend using Tkinter (because it's available with all Python distributions) and Matplotlib. Naturally I also had to figure out how threading is used in Python. Check out my Matplotlib wiki page for some recipes.