""" ================== Contour Label Demo ================== Illustrate some of the more advanced things that one can do with contour labels. See also the :doc:`contour demo example `. """ import matplotlib import numpy as np import matplotlib.ticker as ticker import matplotlib.pyplot as plt ############################################################################### # 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() ############################################################################# # # ------------ # # References # """""""""" # # 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