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LWZ
LWZ

Reputation: 12368

how to make plot where curves may overlap?

I'm trying to make a plot similar to this one

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Because there are curves that completely overlap each other, I like how he puts legends right on the curve, so he can plot so many curves without causing a mess, and have a separate figure shows what these legends stand for.

When I tried to make this plot in Matlab but I don't know how to make legends like this. And the double log with grid is a complete mess too.

How can I make this plot using either matplotlib or Matlab? Is matplotlib more flexible?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 484

Answers (1)

tacaswell
tacaswell

Reputation: 87566

Just use annotate, this should get you 90% there:

x = np.linspace(0,1000)
y = x ** -2

figure()
ax = gca()
ax.loglog(x,y)
ax.grid(True)
ax.grid(True, which='minor')

ax.annotate('a1', (x[15], y[15]),
            backgroundcolor='w',
            color='b',
            va='center',
            ha='center',
            bbox=dict(boxstyle="round", color='b'),)

annotate doc and examples. Getting the circles might be tricky. If you really want to use circles, I would suggest submitting a feature request on github. (It looks like a few hours of digging into mpl guts to add ellipse bounding boxes).

Upvotes: 1

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