Dolphins#

This example shows how to draw, and manipulate shapes given vertices and nodes using the Path, PathPatch and transforms classes.

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np

import matplotlib.cm as cm
from matplotlib.patches import Circle, PathPatch
from matplotlib.path import Path
from matplotlib.transforms import Affine2D

# Fixing random state for reproducibility
np.random.seed(19680801)


r = np.random.rand(50)
t = np.random.rand(50) * np.pi * 2.0
x = r * np.cos(t)
y = r * np.sin(t)

fig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(6, 6))
circle = Circle((0, 0), 1, facecolor='none',
                edgecolor=(0, 0.8, 0.8), linewidth=3, alpha=0.5)
ax.add_patch(circle)

im = plt.imshow(np.random.random((100, 100)),
                origin='lower', cmap=cm.winter,
                interpolation='spline36',
                extent=(-1, 1, -1, 1))
im.set_clip_path(circle)

plt.plot(x, y, 'o', color=(0.9, 0.9, 1.0), alpha=0.8)

# Dolphin from OpenClipart library by Andy Fitzsimon
#   <cc:License rdf:about="http://web.resource.org/cc/PublicDomain">
#     <cc:permits rdf:resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Reproduction"/>
#     <cc:permits rdf:resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Distribution"/>
#     <cc:permits rdf:resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/DerivativeWorks"/>
#   </cc:License>

dolphin = """
M -0.59739425,160.18173 C -0.62740401,160.18885 -0.57867129,160.11183
-0.57867129,160.11183 C -0.57867129,160.11183 -0.5438361,159.89315
-0.39514638,159.81496 C -0.24645668,159.73678 -0.18316813,159.71981
-0.18316813,159.71981 C -0.18316813,159.71981 -0.10322971,159.58124
-0.057804323,159.58725 C -0.029723983,159.58913 -0.061841603,159.60356
-0.071265813,159.62815 C -0.080250183,159.65325 -0.082918513,159.70554
-0.061841203,159.71248 C -0.040763903,159.7194 -0.0066711426,159.71091
0.077336307,159.73612 C 0.16879567,159.76377 0.28380306,159.86448
0.31516668,159.91533 C 0.3465303,159.96618 0.5011127,160.1771
0.5011127,160.1771 C 0.63668998,160.19238 0.67763022,160.31259
0.66556395,160.32668 C 0.65339985,160.34212 0.66350443,160.33642
0.64907098,160.33088 C 0.63463742,160.32533 0.61309688,160.297
0.5789627,160.29339 C 0.54348657,160.28968 0.52329693,160.27674
0.50728856,160.27737 C 0.49060916,160.27795 0.48965803,160.31565
0.46114204,160.33673 C 0.43329696,160.35786 0.4570711,160.39871
0.43309565,160.40685 C 0.4105108,160.41442 0.39416631,160.33027
0.3954995,160.2935 C 0.39683269,160.25672 0.43807996,160.21522
0.44567915,160.19734 C 0.45327833,160.17946 0.27946869,159.9424
-0.061852613,159.99845 C -0.083965233,160.0427 -0.26176109,160.06683
-0.26176109,160.06683 C -0.30127962,160.07028 -0.21167141,160.09731
-0.24649368,160.1011 C -0.32642366,160.11569 -0.34521187,160.06895
-0.40622293,160.0819 C -0.467234,160.09485 -0.56738444,160.17461
-0.59739425,160.18173
"""

vertices = []
codes = []
parts = dolphin.split()
i = 0
code_map = {
    'M': Path.MOVETO,
    'C': Path.CURVE4,
    'L': Path.LINETO,
}

while i < len(parts):
    path_code = code_map[parts[i]]
    npoints = Path.NUM_VERTICES_FOR_CODE[path_code]
    codes.extend([path_code] * npoints)
    vertices.extend([[*map(float, y.split(','))]
                     for y in parts[i + 1:][:npoints]])
    i += npoints + 1
vertices = np.array(vertices)
vertices[:, 1] -= 160

dolphin_path = Path(vertices, codes)
dolphin_patch = PathPatch(dolphin_path, facecolor=(0.6, 0.6, 0.6),
                          edgecolor=(0.0, 0.0, 0.0))
ax.add_patch(dolphin_patch)

vertices = Affine2D().rotate_deg(60).transform(vertices)
dolphin_path2 = Path(vertices, codes)
dolphin_patch2 = PathPatch(dolphin_path2, facecolor=(0.5, 0.5, 0.5),
                           edgecolor=(0.0, 0.0, 0.0))
ax.add_patch(dolphin_patch2)

plt.show()

References

The use of the following functions, methods, classes and modules is shown in this example:

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