Drawing streamlines of vector flow
Stream plots are used to visualize flow in vector fields. Examples from science and nature include fields of magnetic and gravitational forces or movement of liquid materials.
Vector field can be visualized in such a way, where we assign a line and one or more arrows to every point. The intensity can be represented by the line length, and direction by arrow pointing in particular direction.
Usually, the intensity of the force is visualized with the length of a particular streamline, but density can also be used for the same purpose.
Getting ready
To visualize vector fields, we will use matplotlib's matplotlib.pyplot.streamplot function. This function creates plots from streamlines of a flow uniformly filling the ...
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