Re: [Matplotlib-users] making subplots with rows different sizes

[Michael L. <mgl...@gm...>]

I recently attended a fantastic workshop by John Hunter and Fernando
Perez, and John pointed out that I really do want to play with the
axis objects directly.  In case someone googles for this later on,
here's how to do it for two boxes:

ax = axes([0.1, 0.3, 0.8, 0.6])
plot(rand(12))

a2 = axes([0.1, 0.1, 0.8, 0.15])
plot(rand(12))

On 3/21/07, Eric Firing <ef...@ha...> wrote:
> John Hunter wrote:
> > On 3/21/07, Michael Lerner <mgl...@gm...> wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I want to make a figure that has three subplots.  The top one should
> >> be a big, mostly square thing.  The bottom two should be rectangular
> >> things.  That is, I want it to look like this:
> >>
> >> XXXXX
> >> XXXXX
> >> XXXXX
> >> XXXXX
> >>
> >> XXXXX
> >> XXXXX
> >>
> >> XXXXX
> >> XXXXX
> >>
> >> so, I'm using subplot(311), subplot(312), subplot(313).  But, things
> >> are getting resized so that each of the rows has the same height.
> >> That really messes up the aspect ratio for my top row.
> >
> > The following might hrlp:
> >
> > ax1 = subplot(211)
> > ax2 = subplot(413)
> > ax3 = subplot(414)
> >
> > JDH
>
> And if you want to tweak the positions you can use, e.g.,  oldpos =
> ax1.get_position() to find out the present position, and
> ax1.set_position(newpos) to change it.  The position rectangles are
> [left, bottom, width, height] in relative coordinates--that is,
> fractions of the figure width and height.
>
> If you want to control the aspect ratio of the data without changing the
> position rectangle (e.g. after adjusting it as above), use
> ax1.set_aspect(aspect, adjustable='datalim').
>
> Eric
>


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