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Mastering Matplotlib

Mastering Matplotlib

By : Duncan M. McGreggor, Duncan M McGreggor
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Mastering Matplotlib

Mastering Matplotlib

3.5 (8)
By: Duncan M. McGreggor, Duncan M McGreggor

Overview of this book

If you are a scientist, programmer, software engineer, or student who has working knowledge of matplotlib and now want to extend your usage of matplotlib to plot complex graphs and charts and handle large datasets, then this book is for you.
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The artist layer

The artist layer constitutes the bulk of what matplotlib actually does—the generation of the plots for the purpose of display, manipulation, and publication. Most work in the artist layer is performed by a number of classes, most of which are derived from the Artist base class.

The artist layer is concerned with things such as the lines, shapes, axes, text, and so on. These are the subclasses of the Artist class that define things such as the following:

  • A canvas-artist coordinate transformation
  • Visibility
  • A clip box that defines the paintable area
  • Labels
  • A callback registry instance to handle user interaction events

The Artist subclasses can be classified into one of the following two groups:

  • Primitives
  • Containers

The following two sections provide more details about these groups.

Primitives

The matplotlib artist primitives are classes of graphical objects that are supposed to be painted on a figure's canvas. These include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • Line2D
  • Shape...

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