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Reference for Matplotlib artists#
This example displays several of Matplotlib's graphics primitives (artists).A full list of artists is documented atthe artist API.
See alsoCircles, Wedges and Polygons, which groupsall artists into a singlePatchCollection instead.
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importmatplotlib.pyplotaspltimportmatplotlibasmplimportmatplotlib.linesasmlinesimportmatplotlib.patchesasmpatchesimportmatplotlib.pathasmpath# Prepare the data for the PathPatch below.Path=mpath.Pathcodes,verts=zip(*[(Path.MOVETO,[0.018,-0.11]),(Path.CURVE4,[-0.031,-0.051]),(Path.CURVE4,[-0.115,0.073]),(Path.CURVE4,[-0.03,0.073]),(Path.LINETO,[-0.011,0.039]),(Path.CURVE4,[0.043,0.121]),(Path.CURVE4,[0.075,-0.005]),(Path.CURVE4,[0.035,-0.027]),(Path.CLOSEPOLY,[0.018,-0.11])])artists=[mpatches.Circle((0,0),0.1,ec="none"),mpatches.Rectangle((-0.025,-0.05),0.05,0.1,ec="none"),mpatches.Wedge((0,0),0.1,30,270,ec="none"),mpatches.RegularPolygon((0,0),5,radius=0.1),mpatches.Ellipse((0,0),0.2,0.1),mpatches.Arrow(-0.05,-0.05,0.1,0.1,width=0.1),mpatches.PathPatch(mpath.Path(verts,codes),ec="none"),mpatches.FancyBboxPatch((-0.025,-0.05),0.05,0.1,ec="none",boxstyle=mpatches.BoxStyle("Round",pad=0.02)),mlines.Line2D([-0.06,0.0,0.1],[0.05,-0.05,0.05],lw=5),]axs=plt.figure(figsize=(6,6),layout="constrained").subplots(3,3)fori,(ax,artist)inenumerate(zip(axs.flat,artists)):artist.set(color=mpl.colormaps["hsv"](i/len(artists)))ax.add_artist(artist)ax.set(title=type(artist).__name__,aspect=1,xlim=(-.2,.2),ylim=(-.2,.2))ax.set_axis_off()plt.show()
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The use of the following functions, methods, classes and modules is shownin this example: