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Plotting in polar, decoratedΒΆ
An example showing how to plot in polar coordinate, and some decorations.
![plot polar ext](../../../../_images/sphx_glr_plot_polar_ext_001.png)
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
plt.subplot(1, 1, 1, polar=True)
N = 20
theta = np.arange(0.0, 2 * np.pi, 2 * np.pi / N)
rng = np.random.default_rng()
radii = 10 * rng.random(N)
width = np.pi / 4 * rng.random(N)
bars = plt.bar(theta, radii, width=width, bottom=0.0)
for r, bar in zip(radii, bars, strict=True):
bar.set_facecolor(plt.cm.jet(r / 10.0))
bar.set_alpha(0.5)
plt.gca().set_xticklabels([])
plt.gca().set_yticklabels([])
plt.text(
-0.2,
1.02,
" Polar Axis \n",
horizontalalignment="left",
verticalalignment="top",
size="xx-large",
bbox={"facecolor": "white", "alpha": 1.0},
transform=plt.gca().transAxes,
)
plt.text(
-0.2,
1.01,
"\n\n Plot anything using polar axis ",
horizontalalignment="left",
verticalalignment="top",
size="large",
transform=plt.gca().transAxes,
)
plt.show()
Total running time of the script: (0 minutes 0.096 seconds)