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Mastering Matplotlib 2.x
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Mastering Matplotlib 2.x

by Benjamin Walter Keller
November 2018
Beginner to intermediate
214 pages
5h 2m
English
Packt Publishing
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Customizing the appearance of vector plots

This corresponds to what the scale translates into. For instance, a scale unit set to width says that the unit value of 1 is one times the width of your plot. If a scale unit of x says that 1 is one in the width in the x dimension, a scale value of y says the same thing in the y dimension, while the inches says a scale of 1 equals 1 inch long. So, depending on whether or not we want the arrows to scale relative to the size of the image or actual printed image, we would get a value that is independent of the scale of the data itself, which we can specify using the scale units argument.

To customize the appearance of the vector plots, we will take the following steps:

  1. The width of the vectors can ...
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