Hi Sergey,


1)  This code gives a strange error:

The debugged program raised the exception unhandled TypeError
"streamplot() got an unexpected keyword argument 'start_points'"
File: /home/sergey/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/kwant/plotter.py, Line: 2164

which is strange since start_points  is in the streamplot documentation

Ah, in the documentation [1] it does indeed mention "streamplot", but we are actually referring to 'kwant.plotter.streamplot', not matplotlib's one. I will modify the documentation so that the distinction is clearer. Our version of streamplot includes things like including the background color etc.

We don't currently provide a way to customize all the options of the underlying calls to matplotlib, because this would be excessively complicated. Luckily it is pretty simple to write your own wrapper that you can customize:

    def custom_current(syst, current):
        field, box = kwant.plotter.interpolate_current(syst, current, ...)  # your custom args here

        # make grid for streamplot
        X = np.linspace(*box[0], num=field.shape[0])
        Y = np.linspace(*box[1], num=field.shape[1])

        pyplot.streamplot(X, Y, field[:, :, 0], field[:, :, 1], ...)  # your custom args here


Make sure you post back to the mailing list if you find some heuristic that makes decent plots!



2)  How to make several plots be generated without manual closure of the previous one?  My command     pyplot.show(block=False)  does not seem to work in this case.

You can pass a matplotlib axis to 'current' via the 'ax' parameter. This will make the plotter draw into the axes that you provide.

You'll need to search on stackoverflow or look in the matplotlib docs to find out how to do exactly what you want, because even though you can totally define several plots, I'm not sure matplotlib can display them simultaneously.

Happy Kwanting,

Joe


[1]: https://kwant-project.org/doc/1/reference/generated/kwant.plotter.current