svg-pltmarker 1.0.0

A library for generating Matplotlib markers from SVG files.

SVG-pltmarker

A Python library for generating matplotlib markers from SVG files.

Install

pip install svg-pltmarker
pip install 'svg-pltmarker[dev]'  # for developers

Dependencies

Python version 3.10.0 or higher is required.

Libraries:

• matplotlib >= 3.6.0
• NumPy >= 1.22.0
• pydantic >= 2.0.0

Usage

Sample notebook (Colaboratory)

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np
from svg_pltmarker import get_marker_from_svg


# Generate Maplotlib marker from SVG file.
marker = get_marker_from_svg(url="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/84/Matplotlib_icon.svg")

# Scatter plot
fig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(10, 10))
ax.set_aspect("equal")
ax.set_axis_off()
x, y = np.meshgrid(np.linspace(0, 2, 11), np.linspace(0, 2, 11))
plt.scatter(x, y, marker=marker, s=2500, color="None", edgecolors="black")
plt.xlim(0, 2)
plt.ylim(0, 2)
plt.show()

Then get below figure:

Reference

1. https://developer.mozilla.org/ja/docs/Web/SVG/Element
2. https://triple-underscore.github.io/SVG11/shapes.html
3. https://github.com/nvictus/svgpath2mpl