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MPL Plotter Backlog

Minor versions

plotters

• comparison, panes
  • different axes
    • twinx/y -> plot each function on its axis
  • default vertical legend placement
    • single entry legend height = 0.0150 of a figure with height 4.8
    • single entry legend height = f(figure height)
    • extra entry legend height
      • measure 2 entry legend
      • obtain border width
      • single entry legend height - border width
    • v position = 0.5 - (border width + n*single curve height)/2
      • 0.5 - 0.0075 for single entry legend on a 4.8 vert figure
  • make x and y ranges of plots in columns or rows equal
    • https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21661526/how-to-sharex-when-using-subplot2grid
    • set bounds to None to prevent bound setting from overriding axis sharing
  • fig params
    • ‘color_bar’

ticks

• tick_locations
  • ‘min’, ‘mean’, ‘max’ in list

color

• tick label color
• color functions
  • fainter
    • color -> grey -> white
      • Create a MPL linear segmented cmap from color -> white
        • Retrieve color from cmap

References

• Scientific Visualization: Python + Matplotlib, Nicolas P. Rougier