Matplotlib 3.0 Cookbook

How to do it...

The following code block plots two patches as separate plots in the same figure:

1. Define the figure with its size using figure_manager, and attach it to the canvas:

figure_manager = backend_agg.new_figure_manager(1, figsize=(12,6))fig = figure_manager.canvas.figure

2. Define the first axis and plot an ellipse patch on it:

axs1 = fig.add_subplot(121)axs1.add_patch(Ellipse((3, 1.0), 4, 1.0, hatch='/', facecolor='g')) # centre=(3, 1.0), width=4, height=1.0axs1.set_xlim((0, 6))axs1.set_ylim((0, 2.5))

3. Define the second axis and plot a polygon patch on it:

axs2 = fig.add_subplot(122)axs2.add_patch(Polygon([[0, 0], [4, 1.1], [6, 2.5], [2, 1.4]],                color='b', lw=5, fill=False, hatch='+*'))axs2.set_xlim((0, 6))axs2.set_ylim((0, 2.5)) ...