Dolphins

This example shows how to draw, and manipulate shapes given vertices and nodes using the Patches, Path and Transforms classes.

import matplotlib.cm as cm
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from matplotlib.patches import Circle, PathPatch
from matplotlib.path import Path
from matplotlib.transforms import Affine2D
import numpy as np

# Fixing random state for reproducibility
np.random.seed(19680801)


r = np.random.rand(50)
t = np.random.rand(50) * np.pi * 2.0
x = r * np.cos(t)
y = r * np.sin(t)

fig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(6, 6))
circle = Circle((0, 0), 1, facecolor='none',
                edgecolor=(0, 0.8, 0.8), linewidth=3, alpha=0.5)
ax.add_patch(circle)

im = plt.imshow(np.random.random((100, 100)),
                origin='lower', cmap=cm.winter,
                interpolation='spline36',
                extent=([-1, 1, -1, 1]))
im.set_clip_path(circle)

plt.plot(x, y, 'o', color=(0.9, 0.9, 1.0), alpha=0.8)

# Dolphin from OpenClipart library by Andy Fitzsimon
#       <cc:License rdf:about="http://web.resource.org/cc/PublicDomain">
#         <cc:permits rdf:resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Reproduction"/>
#         <cc:permits rdf:resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Distribution"/>
#         <cc:permits rdf:resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/DerivativeWorks"/>
#       </cc:License>

dolphin = """
M -0.59739425,160.18173 C -0.62740401,160.18885 -0.57867129,160.11183
-0.57867129,160.11183 C -0.57867129,160.11183 -0.5438361,159.89315
-0.39514638,159.81496 C -0.24645668,159.73678 -0.18316813,159.71981
-0.18316813,159.71981 C -0.18316813,159.71981 -0.10322971,159.58124
-0.057804323,159.58725 C -0.029723983,159.58913 -0.061841603,159.60356
-0.071265813,159.62815 C -0.080250183,159.65325 -0.082918513,159.70554
-0.061841203,159.71248 C -0.040763903,159.7194 -0.0066711426,159.71091
0.077336307,159.73612 C 0.16879567,159.76377 0.28380306,159.86448
0.31516668,159.91533 C 0.3465303,159.96618 0.5011127,160.1771
0.5011127,160.1771 C 0.63668998,160.19238 0.67763022,160.31259
0.66556395,160.32668 C 0.65339985,160.34212 0.66350443,160.33642
0.64907098,160.33088 C 0.63463742,160.32533 0.61309688,160.297
0.5789627,160.29339 C 0.54348657,160.28968 0.52329693,160.27674
0.50728856,160.27737 C 0.49060916,160.27795 0.48965803,160.31565
0.46114204,160.33673 C 0.43329696,160.35786 0.4570711,160.39871
0.43309565,160.40685 C 0.4105108,160.41442 0.39416631,160.33027
0.3954995,160.2935 C 0.39683269,160.25672 0.43807996,160.21522
0.44567915,160.19734 C 0.45327833,160.17946 0.27946869,159.9424
-0.061852613,159.99845 C -0.083965233,160.0427 -0.26176109,160.06683
-0.26176109,160.06683 C -0.30127962,160.07028 -0.21167141,160.09731
-0.24649368,160.1011 C -0.32642366,160.11569 -0.34521187,160.06895
-0.40622293,160.0819 C -0.467234,160.09485 -0.56738444,160.17461
-0.59739425,160.18173
"""

vertices = []
codes = []
parts = dolphin.split()
i = 0
code_map = {
    'M': (Path.MOVETO, 1),
    'C': (Path.CURVE4, 3),
    'L': (Path.LINETO, 1)}

while i < len(parts):
    code = parts[i]
    path_code, npoints = code_map[code]
    codes.extend([path_code] * npoints)
    vertices.extend([[float(x) for x in y.split(',')] for y in
                     parts[i + 1:i + npoints + 1]])
    i += npoints + 1
vertices = np.array(vertices, float)
vertices[:, 1] -= 160

dolphin_path = Path(vertices, codes)
dolphin_patch = PathPatch(dolphin_path, facecolor=(0.6, 0.6, 0.6),
                          edgecolor=(0.0, 0.0, 0.0))
ax.add_patch(dolphin_patch)

vertices = Affine2D().rotate_deg(60).transform(vertices)
dolphin_path2 = Path(vertices, codes)
dolphin_patch2 = PathPatch(dolphin_path2, facecolor=(0.5, 0.5, 0.5),
                           edgecolor=(0.0, 0.0, 0.0))
ax.add_patch(dolphin_patch2)

plt.show()