floating_axis demo#

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 Curvilinear grid demo.

demo floating axis
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np

from matplotlib.projections import PolarAxes
from matplotlib.transforms import Affine2D
from mpl_toolkits.axisartist import GridHelperCurveLinear, HostAxes
import mpl_toolkits.axisartist.angle_helper as angle_helper


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 = fig.add_subplot(axes_class=HostAxes, grid_helper=grid_helper)

    # 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()

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