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Han Zhengzu
Han Zhengzu

Reputation: 3842

Drawing fancy arrows in Matplotlib

Here is a figure I clipped from Lorena A. Barba group http://i4.tietuku.com/229231358fba454f.png

I just curious about the red arrow mixing with white dot shown on the figure.

Can matplotlib has the function to draw this kind of arrow(I think it's "canyon style")

Maybe this one is more clear:

http://i4.tietuku.com/88a340147ca388c6.png

clipped from James Bagrow's lab here

Upvotes: 0

Views: 828

Answers (1)

otterb
otterb

Reputation: 2710

I do not know if it's possible. And looking at the Gallery (http://matplotlib.org/gallery.html), it does not seem easily available.

But maybe what plt.xkcd() does provides some clue on how to go about.

Here is the source code of pyplot.py: https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/blob/12e08785fcb0b1a6bce946de689a3f84b67731f7/lib/matplotlib/pyplot.py

calling plt.xkcd() just change some rcParams and namely 'path.sketch' gives the randomness of the line. So, with similar approach you could experiment with those rcParams to come up with a brush stroke like style...

There are a bunch of parameters to play with. (Customizing matplotlib, http://matplotlib.org/users/customizing.html)

Upvotes: 2

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