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Illustrate some of the more advanced things that one can do with contour labels.
See also the contour demo example.
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Contour Label Demo
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Illustrate some of the more advanced things that one can do with
contour labels.
See also the :doc:`contour demo example
</gallery/images_contours_and_fields/contour_demo>`.
"""
import matplotlib
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.ticker as ticker
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/build/matplotlib-tq5J6U/matplotlib-3.1.2/examples/images_contours_and_fields/contour_label_demo.py", line 1
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^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
Define our surface
delta = 0.025
x = np.arange(-3.0, 3.0, delta)
y = np.arange(-2.0, 2.0, delta)
X, Y = np.meshgrid(x, y)
Z1 = np.exp(-X**2 - Y**2)
Z2 = np.exp(-(X - 1)**2 - (Y - 1)**2)
Z = (Z1 - Z2) * 2
Make contour labels using creative float classes Follows suggestion of Manuel Metz
# Define a class that forces representation of float to look a certain way
# This remove trailing zero so '1.0' becomes '1'
class nf(float):
def __repr__(self):
s = f'{self:.1f}'
return f'{self:.0f}' if s[-1] == '0' else s
# Basic contour plot
fig, ax = plt.subplots()
CS = ax.contour(X, Y, Z)
# Recast levels to new class
CS.levels = [nf(val) for val in CS.levels]
# Label levels with specially formatted floats
if plt.rcParams["text.usetex"]:
fmt = r'%r \%%'
else:
fmt = '%r %%'
ax.clabel(CS, CS.levels, inline=True, fmt=fmt, fontsize=10)
Label contours with arbitrary strings using a dictionary
fig1, ax1 = plt.subplots()
# Basic contour plot
CS1 = ax1.contour(X, Y, Z)
fmt = {}
strs = ['first', 'second', 'third', 'fourth', 'fifth', 'sixth', 'seventh']
for l, s in zip(CS1.levels, strs):
fmt[l] = s
# Label every other level using strings
ax1.clabel(CS1, CS1.levels[::2], inline=True, fmt=fmt, fontsize=10)
Use a Formatter
fig2, ax2 = plt.subplots()
CS2 = ax2.contour(X, Y, 100**Z, locator=plt.LogLocator())
fmt = ticker.LogFormatterMathtext()
fmt.create_dummy_axis()
ax2.clabel(CS2, CS2.levels, fmt=fmt)
ax2.set_title("$100^Z$")
plt.show()
The use of the following functions, methods and classes is shown in this example:
matplotlib.axes.Axes.contour
matplotlib.pyplot.contour
matplotlib.axes.Axes.clabel
matplotlib.pyplot.clabel
matplotlib.ticker.LogFormatterMathtext
matplotlib.ticker.TickHelper.create_dummy_axis
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