matplotlib Plotting Cookbook -- Table of Contents -- matplotlib Plotting Cookbook -- Credits -- About the Author -- About the Reviewers -- www.PacktPub.com -- Support files, eBooks, discount offers and more -- Why Subscribe? -- Free Access for Packt account holders -- Preface -- What this book covers -- What you need for this book -- Who this book is for -- Conventions -- Reader feedback -- Customer support -- Downloading the example code -- Downloading the color images of this book -- Errata -- Piracy -- Questions -- 1. First Steps -- Introduction -- Installing matplotlib -- How to do it... -- Plotting one curve -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Using NumPy -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Plotting multiple curves -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Plotting curves from file data -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Plotting points -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- Plotting bar charts -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- The thickness of a bar -- Horizontal bars -- Plotting multiple bar charts -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Plotting stacked bar charts -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Plotting back-to-back bar charts -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- Plotting pie charts -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- Plotting histograms -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- Plotting boxplots -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Plotting triangulations -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- 2. Customizing the Color and Styles -- Introduction -- Defining your own colors -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- Using custom colors for scatter plots -- Getting ready -- How to do it...

How it works... -- There's more... -- Using custom colors for bar charts -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Using custom colors for pie charts -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- Using custom colors for boxplots -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- Using colormaps for scatter plots -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- Using colormaps for bar charts -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- Controlling a line pattern and thickness -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- The line style with other plot types -- The line width -- Controlling a fill pattern -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- Controlling a marker's style -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Controlling a marker's size -- How to do it... -- There's more... -- Creating your own markers -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- Getting more control over markers -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- Creating your own color scheme -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- 3. Working with Annotations -- Introduction -- Adding a title -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- Using LaTeX-style notations -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- Adding a label to each axis -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- Adding text -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Alignment control -- Bounding box control -- Adding arrows -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- Adding a legend -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Adding a grid -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- Adding lines -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- Adding shapes -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Working with polygons -- Working with path attributes -- Controlling tick spacing -- How to do it... -- How it works...

There's more... -- Controlling tick labeling -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- A simpler way to create bar charts with fixed labels -- Advanced label generation -- 4. Working with Figures -- Introduction -- Compositing multiple figures -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- An alternative way to composite figures -- Scaling both the axes equally -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- Setting an axis range -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- Setting the aspect ratio -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- Inserting subfigures -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- Using a logarithmic scale -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Using polar coordinates -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- 5. Working with a File Output -- Introduction -- Generating a PNG picture file -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- Handling transparency -- How to do it... -- Rendering a figure to a PNG file with a transparent background -- Making a HTML page that includes the figure -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Controlling the output resolution -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Generating PDF or SVG documents -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Handling multiple-page PDF documents -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- 6. Working with Maps -- Introduction -- Visualizing the content of a 2D array -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more… -- Adding a colormap legend to a figure -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- Visualizing nonuniform 2D data -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- Visualizing a 2D scalar field -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- Visualizing contour lines -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Visualizing a 2D vector field.

Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- Visualizing the streamlines of a 2D vector field -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- 7. Working with 3D Figures -- Introduction -- Creating 3D scatter plots -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Creating 3D curve plots -- How to do it… -- How it works... -- Plotting a scalar field in 3D -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Plotting a parametric 3D surface -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Embedding 2D figures in a 3D figure -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Creating a 3D bar plot -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- 8. User Interface -- Introduction -- Making a user-controllable plot -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Integrating a plot to a Tkinter user interface -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- Integrating a plot to a wxWidgets user interface -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- Integrating a plot to a GTK user interface -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- Integrating a plot in a Pyglet application -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- Index.