BoPlotKit 0.1.6

An advanced and flexible scientific plotting toolkit.

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BoPlotKit

BoPlotKit is a modular, extensible scientific plotting toolkit developed for researchers, scientists, and engineers. It provides clean and consistent APIs to generate high-quality, publication-ready figures such as curve plots, particle schematics, and residual analysis.

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✨ Features

• Modular Design: Well-organized modules for curves, schematics, styles, utilities, and configuration.
• Unified Aesthetics: Consistent visual themes with predefined colors, markers, and line styles.
• Flexible Curve Plotting: Support for multiple curves, residual comparison, log/scientific scale, truncation, axis customization, and multi-format legends.
• Schematic Plotting: Easily create particle distributions and domain diagrams.
• Smart File Naming: Auto-generated filenames in the format boplot_<timestamp>_<title>.png.
• Minimal Dependencies: Built on top of Matplotlib, NumPy, and Pandas.
• Easy Integration: Can be used as a standalone package or imported into larger Python-based workflows.
• Test-Driven Development: Comes with robust test cases to ensure stability and correctness.

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📦 Installation

pip install BoPlotKit

Or, to install the development or latest version from source:

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/bo-qian/BoPlotKit.git
cd BoPlotKit

# (Optional) Create a virtual environment
python -m venv venv && source venv/bin/activate

# Install the package from source
pip install .

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🚀 Quick Example

from boplot import *

# Plot initial particle distribution schematic
plot_initial_particle_schematic(
  coordinates=[[90, 90], [150, 90]],
  radii=[30, 30],
  domain=[240, 180],
  title="Initial Particle Distribution",
  show=True,
  save=True
)

# Multi-curve comparison: Shrinkage ratio under different experimental and simulation conditions
plot_curves(
  path=["example/data/test_plotkit_multifeature_data.csv"] * 4,
  label=["Exp 800K", "Exp 900K", "Sim 800K", "Sim 900K"],
  x=[0, 0, 0, 0],
  y=[1, 2, 3, 4],
  xy_label=["Time (s)", "Shrinkage Ratio"],
  title_figure="Shrinkage Comparison at Two Temperatures",
  use_marker=[True, True, False, False],
  legend_ncol=2,
  save=True,
  show=False,
  information="shrinkage_comparison"
)

 

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🧪 Testing

To run all tests, use:

python -m pytest

Note: On Windows, if you installed BoPlotKit in a Conda environment, make sure to run this command from the Conda terminal (Anaconda Prompt or your activated Conda shell), not from the default system terminal.

All core plotting functions are covered by unit tests under the tests/ directory, including:

• Curve plotting (single and multi-feature)
• Schematic particle distribution
• Residual comparison
• Style and legend configurations

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📁 Project Structure

BoPlotKit/
├── src/
│   └── boplot/
│       ├── __init__.py
│       ├── config.py            # Global parameters and color sets
│       ├── curves.py            # Core curve plotting functions
│       ├── schematic.py         # Particle schematic functions
│       ├── style.py             # Default plot styling
│       └── utils.py             # Filename generator and helpers
├── tests/                       # Pytest-based test cases
├── example/                     # Example scripts and CSV data
│   ├── data/
│   └── test_example_plot.py
├── figures/                     # Output figures (auto-generated)
├── pyproject.toml               # Build configuration
├── setup.py                     # Legacy install config
├── LICENSE
└── README.md

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📚 Dependencies

matplotlib>=3.0
numpy>=1.18
pandas>=1.0
pytest>=6.0

Install via:

pip install -r requirements.txt

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🙌 Contributing

Feel free to contribute by:

• Reporting issues and bugs
• Improving documentation and examples
• Submitting pull requests with enhancements or new plotting modules

All contributions are welcome and appreciated.

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📜 License

GNU General Public License v3 (GPLv3) License © 2025 Bo Qian

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For advanced examples and API documentation, please refer to the tests/ and example/ directories, or explore the docstrings inside the src/BoPlotKit/ module.