matplotlib.patches.Ellipse

class matplotlib.patches.Ellipse(xy, width, height, angle=0.0, **kwargs)

A scale-free ellipse.

xy

center of ellipse

width

total length (diameter) of horizontal axis

height

total length (diameter) of vertical axis

angle

rotation in degrees (anti-clockwise)

Valid kwargs are:

Property	Description
agg_filter	a filter function, which takes a (m, n, 3) float array and a dpi value, and returns a (m, n, 3) array
alpha	float or None
animated	bool
antialiased or aa	bool or None
capstyle	[‘butt’ | ‘round’ | ‘projecting’]
clip_box	a Bbox instance
clip_on	bool
clip_path	[(Path, Transform) | Patch | None]
color	matplotlib color spec
contains	a callable function
edgecolor or ec	mpl color spec, None, ‘none’, or ‘auto’
facecolor or fc	mpl color spec, or None for default, or ‘none’ for no color
figure	a Figure instance
fill	bool
gid	an id string
hatch	[‘/’ | ‘' | ‘|’ | ‘-‘ | ‘+’ | ‘x’ | ‘o’ | ‘O’ | ‘.’ | ‘*’]
joinstyle	[‘miter’ | ‘round’ | ‘bevel’]
label	object
linestyle or ls	[‘solid’ | ‘dashed’, ‘dashdot’, ‘dotted’ | (offset, on-off-dash-seq) | '-' | '--' | '-.' | ':' | 'None' | ' ' | '']
linewidth or lw	float or None for default
path_effects	AbstractPathEffect
picker	[None | bool | float | callable]
rasterized	bool or None
sketch_params	(scale: float, length: float, randomness: float)
snap	bool or None
transform	Transform
url	a url string
visible	bool
zorder	float

get_patch_transform()

get_path()

Return the vertices of the rectangle

Examples using matplotlib.patches.Ellipse

Ellipse Rotated

Ellipse Demo

Hatch Demo

Reference for matplotlib artists

Annotating Plots

Anchored Artists

Ellipse With Units

Anchored Box03

Anchored Box04

Annotate Explain

Simple Annotate01

Legend guide