[Matplotlib-users] plotting positions with non-default markers

Joao Fonseca joao.q.fonseca at gmail.com
Tue Dec 1 15:44:06 EST 2015


This is just what I was after, thanks! And scattertext() looks pretty handy as well.

João

> On 1 Dec 2015, at 19:04, Eric Firing <efiring at hawaii.edu> wrote:
> 
> On 2015/12/01 7:54 AM, Joao Fonseca wrote:
>> To visualize a simulation, I would like to plot positions of two
>> populations using the $\top$ and $\bot$ (similar to $\perp$ and
>> rotated $\perp$) symbols as markers, but make the coordinates
>> coincide with the line intersections in the symbols. In this way, if
>> two points from different populations have the same coordinates they
>> should create a cross with a long vertical line.
>> 
>> I have tried using  plt.text and $\perp$, with a 90 degree rotation
>> to get $\bot$:
>> 
>> text(x,y,r’$\bot$',
>> va=’top',ha='center',color='w',rotation=180,fontsize=14)
>> 
>> but this doesn’t really work or scale, and I would rather use plot or
>> scatter instead of text.
>> 
>> Is there a good way to do this in pyplot? Should I use something
>> else?
> 
> 
> import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
> 
> # Make your own marker by giving vertices like this:
> mbot = ((-7, 0), (0, 0), (0, 20), (0, 0), (7, 0))
> 
> fig, ax = plt.subplots()
> ax.plot([1, 2, 3], marker=mbot, ms=20, mew=1,
>        mfc='none', linestyle='none')
> ax.margins(0.1)
> plt.show()
> 
> 
> Eric
> 
> 
> 
>> 
>> Thank you
>> 
>> João
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