Lambert transform plot for hemisphere

First off, my apologies for resurrecting a 2-month old post…

I’m playing around with plotting with the Lambert transform. I want to
only plot one hemisphere at a time.

I happened to be doing exactly this recently, so I thought I’d post my approach to it.

from matplotlib.transforms import Affine2D

from matplotlib.projections import LambertAxes, register_projection

class LambertHemisphereAxes(LambertAxes):

name = 'lambert_hemisphere'
def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):

    self.horizon = kwargs.pop('horizon', 90)
    self.horizon = np.radians(self.horizon)

    LambertAxes.__init__(self, *args, **kwargs)

def _get_affine_transform(self):

    transform = self._get_core_transform(1)
    xscale, _ = transform.transform_point((self.horizon, 0)) 

    _, yscale = transform.transform_point((0, np.pi / 2.0))
    return Affine2D() \

        .scale(0.5 / xscale, 0.5 / yscale) \
        .translate(0.5, 0.5)

register_projection(LambertHemisphereAxes)

Plotting with a Lambert project for only one hemisphere should then be as simple as:

ax = plt.subplot(111, projection=‘lambert_hemisphere’)

I’ve attached a quick example, just to show the general idea.

Hope that helps,
-Joe

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On Tue, 02 Mar 2010 at 3:23pm Angus McMorland wrote:

On Tue, 02 Mar 2010 at 3:23pm Angus McMorland wrote:

Hi all,

I’m playing around with plotting with the Lambert transform. I want to
only plot one hemisphere at a time.

I see that if I create the appropriate axes:

ax = plt.subplot(111, projection=‘lambert’)

the resulting axis object’s ax.get_xlim() and ax.get_ylim() methods
give the limits in rads of the plot, but the corresponding
ax.set_xlim(), and ax.set_ylim() functions don’t do anything. Is there
an alternative way to achieve my goal?

Many thanks,

Angus.

AJC McMorland
Post-doctoral research fellow
Neurobiology, University of Pittsburgh