.. note:: :class: sphx-glr-download-link-note Click :ref:`here ` to download the full example code .. rst-class:: sphx-glr-example-title .. _sphx_glr_gallery_axisartist_demo_floating_axis.py: ================== Demo Floating Axis ================== Axis within rectangular frame The following code demonstrates how to put a floating polar curve within a rectangular box. In order to get a better sense of polar curves, please look at demo_curvelinear_grid.py. .. image:: /gallery/axisartist/images/sphx_glr_demo_floating_axis_001.png :class: sphx-glr-single-img .. code-block:: default import numpy as np import matplotlib.pyplot as plt import mpl_toolkits.axisartist.angle_helper as angle_helper from matplotlib.projections import PolarAxes from matplotlib.transforms import Affine2D from mpl_toolkits.axisartist import SubplotHost from mpl_toolkits.axisartist import GridHelperCurveLinear def curvelinear_test2(fig): """Polar projection, but in a rectangular box. """ # see demo_curvelinear_grid.py for details tr = Affine2D().scale(np.pi / 180., 1.) + PolarAxes.PolarTransform() extreme_finder = angle_helper.ExtremeFinderCycle(20, 20, lon_cycle=360, lat_cycle=None, lon_minmax=None, lat_minmax=(0, np.inf), ) grid_locator1 = angle_helper.LocatorDMS(12) tick_formatter1 = angle_helper.FormatterDMS() grid_helper = GridHelperCurveLinear(tr, extreme_finder=extreme_finder, grid_locator1=grid_locator1, tick_formatter1=tick_formatter1 ) ax1 = SubplotHost(fig, 1, 1, 1, grid_helper=grid_helper) fig.add_subplot(ax1) # Now creates floating axis # floating axis whose first coordinate (theta) is fixed at 60 ax1.axis["lat"] = axis = ax1.new_floating_axis(0, 60) axis.label.set_text(r"$\theta = 60^{\circ}$") axis.label.set_visible(True) # floating axis whose second coordinate (r) is fixed at 6 ax1.axis["lon"] = axis = ax1.new_floating_axis(1, 6) axis.label.set_text(r"$r = 6$") ax1.set_aspect(1.) ax1.set_xlim(-5, 12) ax1.set_ylim(-5, 10) ax1.grid(True) fig = plt.figure(figsize=(5, 5)) curvelinear_test2(fig) plt.show() .. _sphx_glr_download_gallery_axisartist_demo_floating_axis.py: .. only :: html .. container:: sphx-glr-footer :class: sphx-glr-footer-example .. container:: sphx-glr-download :download:`Download Python source code: demo_floating_axis.py ` .. container:: sphx-glr-download :download:`Download Jupyter notebook: demo_floating_axis.ipynb ` .. only:: html .. rst-class:: sphx-glr-signature Keywords: matplotlib code example, codex, python plot, pyplot `Gallery generated by Sphinx-Gallery `_