panel-plots 0.1.0

Organize matplotlib plots in panels

A simple to use and understand system for making panel plots with matplotlib. The panel-plots package is designed to make it easy to create panel plots with specific sizes, either panel size or overall figure size, maing it particularly suitable for generating figures for journal articles where you need to prepare an image of a particular size and ensure consistent and correct font sizing.

Getting started

The panel-plots package only manages location information, it leaves everything else up to you (and matplotlib). A simple example is to create a 2x3 panel plot of a specified total width. Rremember, knowing the width of the plot allows you to select the same font size as in your document and know the fonts will work out being the same size:

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from panels import FigureSizeLocator

loc = FigureSizeLocator(2, 3, figwidth=150, hsep=12, vsep=12,
                        padleft=10, padright=10, padtop=10, padbottom=10)
fig = plt.figure(figsize=loc.figsize)

for i, pos in enumerate(loc.panel_position_iterator()):
    ax = fig.add_axes(pos)
    ax.plot([0, 1, 2], [3, 2, 1])
    ax.set_title('Panel #{}'.format(i))

plt.show()

You can do a similar thing but specify the size of the individual panels using the PanelSizeLocator locator.