Problem with PatchCollection and FancyArrowPatch?

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1

Hi,

Trying to figure out why these two do not create the same plot. Bug or user error?

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

from matplotlib.patches import FancyArrowPatch

from matplotlib.collections import PatchCollection

def correct_patch(pos):

fig, ax = plt.subplots()

for src, dst in pos:

arrow = FancyArrowPatch(posA=src, posB=dst,

color=‘k’, arrowstyle=’-|>’,

mutation_scale=30, connectionstyle=“arc3”)

ax.add_patch(arrow)

return fig

def patch_collection_problem(pos):

fig, ax = plt.subplots()

pos = [[(.5, .5), (.25, .25)],

[(.1, .5), (.2, .75)]]

arrows = []

for src, dst in pos:

arrows.append(FancyArrowPatch(posA=src, posB=dst,

color=‘k’, arrowstyle=’-|>’,

mutation_scale=30, connectionstyle=“arc3”))

collection = PatchCollection(arrows, match_original=True)

ax.add_collection(collection, autolim=False)

return fig

pos = [[(.5, .5), (.25, .25)],

[(.1, .5), (.2, .75)]]

correct_patch(pos)

patch_collection_problem(pos)

2

FancyArrowPatch behaves quite differently from normal patches.
Most importantly, the path must be reevaluated during the drawing time, so a normal PatchCollection, which evaluate the paths during the instance creation, won’t work. i.e., you need a new Collection class.

Below is a very incomplete implementation of FancyArrowPatchCollection, just for a demonstration purpose. And I recommend you to open a wishlist ticket at the issue tracker (https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues).

Regards,

-JJ

class FancyArrowPatchCollection(PatchCollection):

def set_paths(self, patches):

self._patches = patches

def get_paths(self):

paths =

for p in self._patches:

p.set_transform(self.get_transform())

_path, fillable = p.get_path_in_displaycoord()

paths.extend(_path)

return paths

def _prepare_points(self):

import matplotlib.transforms as mtransforms

transform, transOffset, offsets, paths = PatchCollection._prepare_points(self)

return mtransforms.IdentityTransform(), transOffset, offsets, paths

···

On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 6:33 AM, Skipper Seabold <jsseabold@…287…> wrote:

Hi,

Trying to figure out why these two do not create the same plot. Bug or user error?

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

from matplotlib.patches import FancyArrowPatch

from matplotlib.collections import PatchCollection

def correct_patch(pos):

fig, ax = plt.subplots()

for src, dst in pos:

arrow = FancyArrowPatch(posA=src, posB=dst,

color=‘k’, arrowstyle=‘-|>’,

mutation_scale=30, connectionstyle=“arc3”)

ax.add_patch(arrow)

return fig

def patch_collection_problem(pos):

fig, ax = plt.subplots()

pos = [[(.5, .5), (.25, .25)],

[(.1, .5), (.2, .75)]]

arrows =

for src, dst in pos:

arrows.append(FancyArrowPatch(posA=src, posB=dst,

color=‘k’, arrowstyle=‘-|>’,

mutation_scale=30, connectionstyle=“arc3”))

collection = PatchCollection(arrows, match_original=True)

ax.add_collection(collection, autolim=False)

return fig

pos = [[(.5, .5), (.25, .25)],

[(.1, .5), (.2, .75)]]

correct_patch(pos)

patch_collection_problem(pos)

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