Isn't that what
quiver<http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/api/pyplot_api.html#matplotlib.pyplot.quiver>does?
Or am I misunderstanding the question?

2010/5/3 aditya bhargava <bluemangrou...@gmail.com>

> Thanks Johan and Matthias,
> I was just wondering if there was a built-in way to do this in matplotlib.
> It seems like it would be a useful method to have.
>
> Adit
>
>
> 2010/5/3 Johan Grönqvist <johan.gronqv...@gmail.com>
>
> 2010-05-02 20:19, aditya bhargava skrev:
>> > Is there a straightforward way of plotting a vector in matplotlib?
>> > Suppose I want to plot the vector [1 2]'. If I pass this vector in to
>> > plot(), I get the line that passes through (0,1), (1,2). Instead I want
>> > the line that passes through (0,0),(1,2).
>> >
>>
>> I use pyplot.Arrow to visualize displacement fields.
>>
>> This is a snippet copied from the code I use (it sits in a loop over all
>> vectors I want to plot):
>>
>>
>>         arr = plt.Arrow(x, y, dx, dy)
>>         plt.gca().add_patch(arr)
>>
>> In your case, you would have (x, y) = (0, 0) and (dx, dy) = (1, 2).
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Johan
>>
>>
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