""" ================ Anchored Artists ================ This example illustrates the use of the anchored objects without the helper classes found in :mod:`mpl_toolkits.axes_grid1`. This version of the figure is similar to the one found in :doc:`/gallery/axes_grid1/simple_anchored_artists`, but it is implemented using only the matplotlib namespace, without the help of additional toolkits. .. redirect-from:: /gallery/userdemo/anchored_box01 .. redirect-from:: /gallery/userdemo/anchored_box02 .. redirect-from:: /gallery/userdemo/anchored_box03 """ from matplotlib import pyplot as plt from matplotlib.lines import Line2D from matplotlib.offsetbox import (AnchoredOffsetbox, AuxTransformBox, DrawingArea, TextArea, VPacker) from matplotlib.patches import Circle, Ellipse def draw_text(ax): """Draw a text-box anchored to the upper-left corner of the figure.""" box = AnchoredOffsetbox(child=TextArea("Figure 1a"), loc="upper left", frameon=True) box.patch.set_boxstyle("round,pad=0.,rounding_size=0.2") ax.add_artist(box) def draw_circles(ax): """Draw circles in axes coordinates.""" area = DrawingArea(width=40, height=20) area.add_artist(Circle((10, 10), 10, fc="tab:blue")) area.add_artist(Circle((30, 10), 5, fc="tab:red")) box = AnchoredOffsetbox( child=area, loc="upper right", pad=0, frameon=False) ax.add_artist(box) def draw_ellipse(ax): """Draw an ellipse of width=0.1, height=0.15 in data coordinates.""" aux_tr_box = AuxTransformBox(ax.transData) aux_tr_box.add_artist(Ellipse((0, 0), width=0.1, height=0.15)) box = AnchoredOffsetbox(child=aux_tr_box, loc="lower left", frameon=True) ax.add_artist(box) def draw_sizebar(ax): """ Draw a horizontal bar with length of 0.1 in data coordinates, with a fixed label center-aligned underneath. """ size = 0.1 text = r"1$^{\prime}$" sizebar = AuxTransformBox(ax.transData) sizebar.add_artist(Line2D([0, size], [0, 0], color="black")) text = TextArea(text) packer = VPacker( children=[sizebar, text], align="center", sep=5) # separation in points. ax.add_artist(AnchoredOffsetbox( child=packer, loc="lower center", frameon=False, pad=0.1, borderpad=0.5)) # paddings relative to the legend fontsize. fig, ax = plt.subplots() ax.set_aspect(1) draw_text(ax) draw_circles(ax) draw_ellipse(ax) draw_sizebar(ax) plt.show()