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Mastering Matplotlib
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Mastering Matplotlib

by Duncan M. McGreggor
June 2015
Beginner to intermediate
292 pages
6h 16m
English
Packt Publishing
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The artist layer

The artist layer constitutes the bulk of what matplotlib actually does—the generation of the plots for the purpose of display, manipulation, and publication. Most work in the artist layer is performed by a number of classes, most of which are derived from the Artist base class.

The artist layer is concerned with things such as the lines, shapes, axes, text, and so on. These are the subclasses of the Artist class that define things such as the following:

  • A canvas-artist coordinate transformation
  • Visibility
  • A clip box that defines the paintable area
  • Labels
  • A callback registry instance to handle user interaction events

The Artist subclasses can be classified into one of the following two groups:

  • Primitives
  • Containers

The following two sections ...

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