{ "cells": [ { "cell_type": "markdown", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "\n# Scales overview\n\nIllustrate the scale transformations applied to axes, e.g. log, symlog, logit.\n\nSee `matplotlib.scale` for a full list of built-in scales, and\n:doc:`/gallery/scales/custom_scale` for how to create your own scale.\n" ] }, { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": null, "metadata": { "collapsed": false }, "outputs": [], "source": [ "import matplotlib.pyplot as plt\nimport numpy as np\n\nx = np.arange(400)\ny = np.linspace(0.002, 1, 400)\n\nfig, axs = plt.subplots(3, 2, figsize=(6, 8), layout='constrained')\n\naxs[0, 0].plot(x, y)\naxs[0, 0].set_yscale('linear')\naxs[0, 0].set_title('linear')\naxs[0, 0].grid(True)\n\naxs[0, 1].plot(x, y)\naxs[0, 1].set_yscale('log')\naxs[0, 1].set_title('log')\naxs[0, 1].grid(True)\n\naxs[1, 0].plot(x, y - y.mean())\naxs[1, 0].set_yscale('symlog', linthresh=0.02)\naxs[1, 0].set_title('symlog')\naxs[1, 0].grid(True)\n\naxs[1, 1].plot(x, y)\naxs[1, 1].set_yscale('logit')\naxs[1, 1].set_title('logit')\naxs[1, 1].grid(True)\n\naxs[2, 0].plot(x, y - y.mean())\naxs[2, 0].set_yscale('asinh', linear_width=0.01)\naxs[2, 0].set_title('asinh')\naxs[2, 0].grid(True)\n\n\n# Function x**(1/2)\ndef forward(x):\n return x**(1/2)\n\n\ndef inverse(x):\n return x**2\n\n\naxs[2, 1].plot(x, y)\naxs[2, 1].set_yscale('function', functions=(forward, inverse))\naxs[2, 1].set_title('function: $x^{1/2}$')\naxs[2, 1].grid(True)\naxs[2, 1].set_yticks(np.arange(0, 1.2, 0.2))\n\nplt.show()" ] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "metadata": {}, "source": [ ".. admonition:: References\n\n The use of the following functions, methods, classes and modules is shown\n in this example:\n\n - `matplotlib.axes.Axes.set_xscale`\n - `matplotlib.axes.Axes.set_yscale`\n - `matplotlib.scale.LinearScale`\n - `matplotlib.scale.LogScale`\n - `matplotlib.scale.SymmetricalLogScale`\n - `matplotlib.scale.LogitScale`\n - `matplotlib.scale.FuncScale`\n\n" ] } ], "metadata": { "kernelspec": { "display_name": "Python 3", "language": "python", "name": "python3" }, "language_info": { "codemirror_mode": { "name": "ipython", "version": 3 }, "file_extension": ".py", "mimetype": "text/x-python", "name": "python", "nbconvert_exporter": "python", "pygments_lexer": "ipython3", "version": "3.13.2" } }, "nbformat": 4, "nbformat_minor": 0 }