.. DO NOT EDIT. .. THIS FILE WAS AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED BY SPHINX-GALLERY. .. TO MAKE CHANGES, EDIT THE SOURCE PYTHON FILE: .. "gallery/showcase/xkcd.py" .. LINE NUMBERS ARE GIVEN BELOW. .. only:: html .. meta:: :keywords: codex .. note:: :class: sphx-glr-download-link-note :ref:`Go to the end ` to download the full example code .. rst-class:: sphx-glr-example-title .. _sphx_glr_gallery_showcase_xkcd.py: ==== XKCD ==== Shows how to create an xkcd-like plot. .. GENERATED FROM PYTHON SOURCE LINES 8-11 .. code-block:: Python import matplotlib.pyplot as plt import numpy as np .. GENERATED FROM PYTHON SOURCE LINES 12-40 .. code-block:: Python with plt.xkcd(): # Based on "Stove Ownership" from XKCD by Randall Munroe # https://xkcd.com/418/ fig = plt.figure() ax = fig.add_axes((0.1, 0.2, 0.8, 0.7)) ax.spines[['top', 'right']].set_visible(False) ax.set_xticks([]) ax.set_yticks([]) ax.set_ylim([-30, 10]) data = np.ones(100) data[70:] -= np.arange(30) ax.annotate( 'THE DAY I REALIZED\nI COULD COOK BACON\nWHENEVER I WANTED', xy=(70, 1), arrowprops=dict(arrowstyle='->'), xytext=(15, -10)) ax.plot(data) ax.set_xlabel('time') ax.set_ylabel('my overall health') fig.text( 0.5, 0.05, '"Stove Ownership" from xkcd by Randall Munroe', ha='center') .. image-sg:: /gallery/showcase/images/sphx_glr_xkcd_001.png :alt: xkcd :srcset: /gallery/showcase/images/sphx_glr_xkcd_001.png, /gallery/showcase/images/sphx_glr_xkcd_001_2_00x.png 2.00x :class: sphx-glr-single-img .. GENERATED FROM PYTHON SOURCE LINES 41-65 .. code-block:: Python with plt.xkcd(): # Based on "The Data So Far" from XKCD by Randall Munroe # https://xkcd.com/373/ fig = plt.figure() ax = fig.add_axes((0.1, 0.2, 0.8, 0.7)) ax.bar([0, 1], [0, 100], 0.25) ax.spines[['top', 'right']].set_visible(False) ax.xaxis.set_ticks_position('bottom') ax.set_xticks([0, 1]) ax.set_xticklabels(['CONFIRMED BY\nEXPERIMENT', 'REFUTED BY\nEXPERIMENT']) ax.set_xlim([-0.5, 1.5]) ax.set_yticks([]) ax.set_ylim([0, 110]) ax.set_title("CLAIMS OF SUPERNATURAL POWERS") fig.text( 0.5, 0.05, '"The Data So Far" from xkcd by Randall Munroe', ha='center') plt.show() .. image-sg:: /gallery/showcase/images/sphx_glr_xkcd_002.png :alt: CLAIMS OF SUPERNATURAL POWERS :srcset: /gallery/showcase/images/sphx_glr_xkcd_002.png, /gallery/showcase/images/sphx_glr_xkcd_002_2_00x.png 2.00x :class: sphx-glr-single-img .. _sphx_glr_download_gallery_showcase_xkcd.py: .. only:: html .. container:: sphx-glr-footer sphx-glr-footer-example .. container:: sphx-glr-download sphx-glr-download-jupyter :download:`Download Jupyter notebook: xkcd.ipynb ` .. container:: sphx-glr-download sphx-glr-download-python :download:`Download Python source code: xkcd.py ` .. only:: html .. rst-class:: sphx-glr-signature `Gallery generated by Sphinx-Gallery `_