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fill()
draws a filled polygon based based on lists of point
coordinates x, y.
This example uses the Koch snowflake as an example polygon.
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Filled polygon
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`~.Axes.fill()` draws a filled polygon based based on lists of point
coordinates *x*, *y*.
This example uses the `Koch snowflake`_ as an example polygon.
.. _Koch snowflake: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koch_snowflake
"""
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
def koch_snowflake(order, scale=10):
"""
Return two lists x, y of point coordinates of the Koch snowflake.
Arguments
---------
order : int
The recursion depth.
scale : float
The extent of the snowflake (edge length of the base triangle).
"""
def _koch_snowflake_complex(order):
if order == 0:
# initial triangle
angles = np.array([0, 120, 240]) + 90
return scale / np.sqrt(3) * np.exp(np.deg2rad(angles) * 1j)
else:
ZR = 0.5 - 0.5j * np.sqrt(3) / 3
p1 = _koch_snowflake_complex(order - 1) # start points
p2 = np.roll(p1, shift=-1) # end points
dp = p2 - p1 # connection vectors
new_points = np.empty(len(p1) * 4, dtype=np.complex128)
new_points[::4] = p1
new_points[1::4] = p1 + dp / 3
new_points[2::4] = p1 + dp * ZR
new_points[3::4] = p1 + dp / 3 * 2
return new_points
points = _koch_snowflake_complex(order)
x, y = points.real, points.imag
return x, y
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/build/matplotlib-tq5J6U/matplotlib-3.1.2/examples/lines_bars_and_markers/fill.py", line 1
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^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
Basic usage:
x, y = koch_snowflake(order=5)
plt.figure(figsize=(8, 8))
plt.axis('equal')
plt.fill(x, y)
plt.show()
Use keyword arguments facecolor and edgecolor to modify the the colors of the polygon. Since the linewidth of the edge is 0 in the default Matplotlib style, we have to set it as well for the edge to become visible.
x, y = koch_snowflake(order=2)
fig, (ax1, ax2, ax3) = plt.subplots(1, 3, figsize=(9, 3),
subplot_kw={'aspect': 'equal'})
ax1.fill(x, y)
ax2.fill(x, y, facecolor='lightsalmon', edgecolor='orangered', linewidth=3)
ax3.fill(x, y, facecolor='none', edgecolor='purple', linewidth=3)
plt.show()
The use of the following functions, methods, classes and modules is shown in this example:
import matplotlib
matplotlib.axes.Axes.fill
matplotlib.pyplot.fill
matplotlib.axes.Axes.axis
matplotlib.pyplot.axis
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