.. only:: html .. 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_subplots_axes_and_figures_axes_box_aspect.py: =============== Axes box aspect =============== This demo shows how to set the aspect of an axes box directly via `~.Axes.set_box_aspect`. The box aspect is the ratio between axes height and axes width in physical units, independent of the data limits. This is useful to e.g. produce a square plot, independent of the data it contains, or to have a usual plot with the same axes dimensions next to an image plot with fixed (data-)aspect. The following lists a few use cases for `~.Axes.set_box_aspect`. A square axes, independent of data ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Produce a square axes, no matter what the data limits are. .. code-block:: default import matplotlib import numpy as np import matplotlib.pyplot as plt fig1, ax = plt.subplots() ax.set_xlim(300, 400) ax.set_box_aspect(1) plt.show() .. image:: /gallery/subplots_axes_and_figures/images/sphx_glr_axes_box_aspect_001.png :alt: axes box aspect :class: sphx-glr-single-img Shared square axes ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Produce shared subplots that are squared in size. .. code-block:: default fig2, (ax, ax2) = plt.subplots(ncols=2, sharey=True) ax.plot([1, 5], [0, 10]) ax2.plot([100, 500], [10, 15]) ax.set_box_aspect(1) ax2.set_box_aspect(1) plt.show() .. image:: /gallery/subplots_axes_and_figures/images/sphx_glr_axes_box_aspect_002.png :alt: axes box aspect :class: sphx-glr-single-img Square twin axes ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Produce a square axes, with a twin axes. The twinned axes takes over the box aspect of the parent. .. code-block:: default fig3, ax = plt.subplots() ax2 = ax.twinx() ax.plot([0, 10]) ax2.plot([12, 10]) ax.set_box_aspect(1) plt.show() .. image:: /gallery/subplots_axes_and_figures/images/sphx_glr_axes_box_aspect_003.png :alt: axes box aspect :class: sphx-glr-single-img Normal plot next to image ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ When creating an image plot with fixed data aspect and the default ``adjustable="box"`` next to a normal plot, the axes would be unequal in height. `~.Axes.set_box_aspect` provides an easy solution to that by allowing to have the normal plot's axes use the images dimensions as box aspect. This example also shows that ``constrained_layout`` interplays nicely with a fixed box aspect. .. code-block:: default fig4, (ax, ax2) = plt.subplots(ncols=2, constrained_layout=True) np.random.seed(19680801) # Fixing random state for reproducibility im = np.random.rand(16, 27) ax.imshow(im) ax2.plot([23, 45]) ax2.set_box_aspect(im.shape[0]/im.shape[1]) plt.show() .. image:: /gallery/subplots_axes_and_figures/images/sphx_glr_axes_box_aspect_004.png :alt: axes box aspect :class: sphx-glr-single-img Square joint/marginal plot ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ It may be desirable to show marginal distributions next to a plot of joint data. The following creates a square plot with the box aspect of the marginal axes being equal to the width- and height-ratios of the gridspec. This ensures that all axes align perfectly, independent on the size of the figure. .. code-block:: default fig5, axs = plt.subplots(2, 2, sharex="col", sharey="row", gridspec_kw=dict(height_ratios=[1, 3], width_ratios=[3, 1])) axs[0, 1].set_visible(False) axs[0, 0].set_box_aspect(1/3) axs[1, 0].set_box_aspect(1) axs[1, 1].set_box_aspect(3/1) np.random.seed(19680801) # Fixing random state for reproducibility x, y = np.random.randn(2, 400) * [[.5], [180]] axs[1, 0].scatter(x, y) axs[0, 0].hist(x) axs[1, 1].hist(y, orientation="horizontal") plt.show() .. image:: /gallery/subplots_axes_and_figures/images/sphx_glr_axes_box_aspect_005.png :alt: axes box aspect :class: sphx-glr-single-img Square joint/marginal plot ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ When setting the box aspect, one may still set the data aspect as well. Here we create an axes with a box twice as long as tall and use an "equal" data aspect for its contents, i.e. the circle actually stays circular. .. code-block:: default fig6, ax = plt.subplots() ax.add_patch(plt.Circle((5, 3), 1)) ax.set_aspect("equal", adjustable="datalim") ax.set_box_aspect(0.5) ax.autoscale() plt.show() .. image:: /gallery/subplots_axes_and_figures/images/sphx_glr_axes_box_aspect_006.png :alt: axes box aspect :class: sphx-glr-single-img Box aspect for many subplots ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ It is possible to pass the box aspect to an axes at initialization. The following creates a 2 by 3 subplot grid with all square axes. .. code-block:: default fig7, axs = plt.subplots(2, 3, subplot_kw=dict(box_aspect=1), sharex=True, sharey=True, constrained_layout=True) for i, ax in enumerate(axs.flat): ax.scatter(i % 3, -((i // 3) - 0.5)*200, c=[plt.cm.hsv(i / 6)], s=300) plt.show() .. image:: /gallery/subplots_axes_and_figures/images/sphx_glr_axes_box_aspect_007.png :alt: axes box aspect :class: sphx-glr-single-img ------------ References """""""""" The use of the following functions, methods and classes is shown in this example: .. code-block:: default matplotlib.axes.Axes.set_box_aspect .. rst-class:: sphx-glr-script-out Out: .. code-block:: none .. rst-class:: sphx-glr-timing **Total running time of the script:** ( 0 minutes 2.110 seconds) .. _sphx_glr_download_gallery_subplots_axes_and_figures_axes_box_aspect.py: .. only :: html .. container:: sphx-glr-footer :class: sphx-glr-footer-example .. container:: sphx-glr-download sphx-glr-download-python :download:`Download Python source code: axes_box_aspect.py ` .. container:: sphx-glr-download sphx-glr-download-jupyter :download:`Download Jupyter notebook: axes_box_aspect.ipynb ` .. only:: html .. rst-class:: sphx-glr-signature Keywords: matplotlib code example, codex, python plot, pyplot `Gallery generated by Sphinx-Gallery `_