Oz Nahum wrote:
I am mostly frustrated with documentation writers who write very nice
tutorials describing how to plot completely unusfull graphs of spheres
inside loops and a dolphin swimming in the middle.
I'm sorry. I just couldn't resist writing a tutorial example for this.
Please take it in the spirit of fun it was intended.
Mike
--
Michael Droettboom
Science Software Branch
Operations and Engineering Division
Space Telescope Science Institute
Operated by AURA for NASA
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from matplotlib.patches import Circle, PathPatch
from matplotlib.path import Path
from matplotlib.transforms import Affine2D
import numpy as np
r = np.random.rand(50)
t = np.random.rand(50) * np.pi * 2.0
x = r * np.cos(t)
y = r * np.sin(t)
fig = plt.figure(figsize=(6,6))
ax = plt.subplot(111)
circle = Circle((0, 0), 1, facecolor=(0,0,0.8),
edgecolor=(0,0.8,0.8), linewidth=3, alpha=0.5)
ax.add_patch(circle)
plt.plot(x, y, 'o', color=(0.9, 0.9, 1.0), alpha=0.8)
# Dolphin from OpenClipart library by Andy Fitzsimon
# <cc:License rdf:about="http://web.resource.org/cc/PublicDomain";>
# <cc:permits rdf:resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Reproduction"/>
# <cc:permits rdf:resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Distribution"/>
# <cc:permits
rdf:resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/DerivativeWorks"/>
# </cc:License>
dolphin = """
M -0.59739425,160.18173 C -0.62740401,160.18885 -0.57867129,160.11183
-0.57867129,160.11183 C -0.57867129,160.11183 -0.5438361,159.89315
-0.39514638,159.81496 C -0.24645668,159.73678 -0.18316813,159.71981
-0.18316813,159.71981 C -0.18316813,159.71981 -0.10322971,159.58124
-0.057804323,159.58725 C -0.029723983,159.58913 -0.061841603,159.60356
-0.071265813,159.62815 C -0.080250183,159.65325 -0.082918513,159.70554
-0.061841203,159.71248 C -0.040763903,159.7194 -0.0066711426,159.71091
0.077336307,159.73612 C 0.16879567,159.76377 0.28380306,159.86448
0.31516668,159.91533 C 0.3465303,159.96618 0.5011127,160.1771
0.5011127,160.1771 C 0.63668998,160.19238 0.67763022,160.31259
0.66556395,160.32668 C 0.65339985,160.34212 0.66350443,160.33642
0.64907098,160.33088 C 0.63463742,160.32533 0.61309688,160.297
0.5789627,160.29339 C 0.54348657,160.28968 0.52329693,160.27674
0.50728856,160.27737 C 0.49060916,160.27795 0.48965803,160.31565
0.46114204,160.33673 C 0.43329696,160.35786 0.4570711,160.39871
0.43309565,160.40685 C 0.4105108,160.41442 0.39416631,160.33027
0.3954995,160.2935 C 0.39683269,160.25672 0.43807996,160.21522
0.44567915,160.19734 C 0.45327833,160.17946 0.27946869,159.9424
-0.061852613,159.99845 C -0.083965233,160.0427 -0.26176109,160.06683
-0.26176109,160.06683 C -0.30127962,160.07028 -0.21167141,160.09731
-0.24649368,160.1011 C -0.32642366,160.11569 -0.34521187,160.06895
-0.40622293,160.0819 C -0.467234,160.09485 -0.56738444,160.17461
-0.59739425,160.18173
"""
vertices = []
codes = []
parts = dolphin.split()
i = 0
code_map = {
'M': (Path.MOVETO, 1),
'C': (Path.CURVE4, 3),
'L': (Path.LINETO, 1)
}
while i < len(parts):
code = parts[i]
path_code, npoints = code_map[code]
codes.extend([path_code] * npoints)
vertices.extend([[float(x) for x in y.split(',')] for y in
parts[i+1:i+npoints+1]])
i += npoints + 1
vertices = np.array(vertices, np.float)
vertices[:,1] -= 160
dolphin_path = Path(vertices, codes)
dolphin_patch = PathPatch(dolphin_path, facecolor=(0.6, 0.6, 0.6),
edgecolor=(0.0, 0.0, 0.0))
ax.add_patch(dolphin_patch)
vertices = Affine2D().rotate_deg(60).transform(vertices)
dolphin_path2 = Path(vertices, codes)
dolphin_patch2 = PathPatch(dolphin_path2, facecolor=(0.5, 0.5, 0.5),
edgecolor=(0.0, 0.0, 0.0))
ax.add_patch(dolphin_patch2)
plt.show()
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