""" ========== Streamplot ========== A stream plot, or streamline plot, is used to display 2D vector fields. This example shows a few features of the `~.axes.Axes.streamplot` function: * Varying the color along a streamline. * Varying the density of streamlines. * Varying the line width along a streamline. * Controlling the starting points of streamlines. * Streamlines skipping masked regions and NaN values. * Unbroken streamlines even when exceeding the limit of lines within a single grid cell. """ import matplotlib.pyplot as plt import numpy as np w = 3 Y, X = np.mgrid[-w:w:100j, -w:w:100j] U = -1 - X**2 + Y V = 1 + X - Y**2 speed = np.sqrt(U**2 + V**2) fig, axs = plt.subplots(3, 2, figsize=(7, 9), height_ratios=[1, 1, 2]) axs = axs.flat # Varying density along a streamline axs[0].streamplot(X, Y, U, V, density=[0.5, 1]) axs[0].set_title('Varying Density') # Varying color along a streamline strm = axs[1].streamplot(X, Y, U, V, color=U, linewidth=2, cmap='autumn') fig.colorbar(strm.lines) axs[1].set_title('Varying Color') # Varying line width along a streamline lw = 5*speed / speed.max() axs[2].streamplot(X, Y, U, V, density=0.6, color='k', linewidth=lw) axs[2].set_title('Varying Line Width') # Controlling the starting points of the streamlines seed_points = np.array([[-2, -1, 0, 1, 2, -1], [-2, -1, 0, 1, 2, 2]]) strm = axs[3].streamplot(X, Y, U, V, color=U, linewidth=2, cmap='autumn', start_points=seed_points.T) fig.colorbar(strm.lines) axs[3].set_title('Controlling Starting Points') # Displaying the starting points with blue symbols. axs[3].plot(seed_points[0], seed_points[1], 'bo') axs[3].set(xlim=(-w, w), ylim=(-w, w)) # Create a mask mask = np.zeros(U.shape, dtype=bool) mask[40:60, 40:60] = True U[:20, :20] = np.nan U = np.ma.array(U, mask=mask) axs[4].streamplot(X, Y, U, V, color='r') axs[4].set_title('Streamplot with Masking') axs[4].imshow(~mask, extent=(-w, w, -w, w), alpha=0.5, cmap='gray', aspect='auto') axs[4].set_aspect('equal') axs[5].streamplot(X, Y, U, V, broken_streamlines=False) axs[5].set_title('Streamplot with unbroken streamlines') plt.tight_layout() plt.show() # %% # # .. admonition:: References # # The use of the following functions, methods, classes and modules is shown # in this example: # # - `matplotlib.axes.Axes.streamplot` / `matplotlib.pyplot.streamplot` # - `matplotlib.gridspec.GridSpec`