You can plot pretty much anything with matplotlib if you know what you are doing. It is an extremely versatile library. The gallery shows the sorts of things that are possible https://matplotlib.org/gallery.html. Removing the axes from a plot should be a trivial thing to do.
The SymPy plotting functions are mainly designed as a convenience. Generally you can also manually wrap the expression with `lambdify` and pass it a `linspace`. They do do some nice things like adaptive sampling which aren't trivial to do manually. Also some functions such as the implicit plotting functions implement nontrivial algorithms. The matplotlib developers have also expressed to me that they would like to add function plotting directly into matplotlib. That would make plotting a SymPy expression directly with matplotlib much simpler without using the SymPy wrappers (it would just be a question of calling `lambdify` first). I would be in favor of moving logic that isn't specific to symbolics away from SymPy and into matplotlib. Aaron Meurer On Sat, Feb 8, 2020 at 8:20 AM David Bailey <d...@dbailey.co.uk> wrote: > > On 08/02/2020 12:35, Gagandeep Singh (B17CS021) wrote: > > IMO, Oscar is suggesting a nice idea. Using wrappers for the APIs already > existing for plotting just slows down the computation of overall results. If > the SymPy wrappers for plotting module aren't making any difference in the > algorithms for plotting then may be we can remove them though it would be a > drastic change. Other approach can be to stop extending it further and just > focussing on fixing the current bugs. > My views are based on a high level idea of plotting module, someone with more > experience should take the decision regarding this. > > > Thanks Oscar and Gagandeep, > > Looking at the MatplotLib site, I see most of the examples have axes, but > gratifyingly there are a few that don't. There is even a Mandelbrot example > (without axes) so if you can plot that, I imagine you can do just about > anything! > > I don't think it would be a good idea to make drastic changes to SymPy - > because that just creates confusion, and stability counts for a lot - but it > might be nice to change the documentation to point directly at Matplotlib, > because otherwise users get the impression that the plotting features in > SymPy are much less complete than they really are. > > David > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sympy" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to sympy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/37e594cf-2439-0e55-a7f9-8aeedaa2f6a7%40dbailey.co.uk. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sympy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/CAKgW%3D6LougPbjJEGMNgS3wb%2B-TDUhK%2BQwkh1%2B4_cu4W20g04iA%40mail.gmail.com.
