FlowGlyph Class#
The FlowGlyph class renders a sequence of polylines as a LineCollection.
With a per-path values array the lines are colour-mapped through the shared
scalar-mapping pipeline and a colorbar is attached; a per-path widths array
scales the line widths by magnitude (with an optional width legend). It suits
flow / flux paths such as river reaches or transport links.
Class Documentation#
cleopatra.glyphs.primitives.flow_glyph.FlowGlyph
#
Visualization class for magnitude-coloured, width-scaled flow paths.
Renders a sequence of polylines as a LineCollection. With a per-path
values array the lines are colour-mapped through the shared
scalar-mapping pipeline and a colorbar is attached (like VectorGlyph);
with a per-path widths array each line's width is scaled via
cleopatra.styling.styles.resolve_sizes (like ScatterGlyph's sizes). Colour
and width are independent, so a flow can encode two quantities at once.
Parameters:
| Name | Type | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
paths
|
Sequence[ndarray]
|
A sequence of |
required |
values
|
ndarray | None
|
Optional per-path magnitude (length = number of paths) used for colour mapping. Default is None (single-colour lines, no colorbar). |
None
|
widths
|
ndarray | None
|
Optional per-path magnitude (length = number of paths) used
for line-width scaling. When None, the scalar |
None
|
ax
|
Axes | None
|
Pre-existing axes to draw on. Default is None. |
None
|
fig
|
Figure | None
|
Pre-existing figure. Default is None. |
None
|
glow
|
Add a soft neon halo beneath the flow polylines (tracking their
width scaling). |
required | |
**kwargs
|
Override any key in |
{}
|
Raises:
| Type | Description |
|---|---|
ValueError
|
If |
Examples:
- Build flows and read back the width ordering:
>>> import numpy as np >>> from cleopatra.glyphs.primitives.flow_glyph import FlowGlyph >>> paths = [ ... np.array([[0.0, 0.0], [1.0, 0.0]]), ... np.array([[0.0, 1.0], [1.0, 1.0]]), ... np.array([[0.0, 2.0], [1.0, 2.0]]), ... ] >>> glyph = FlowGlyph( ... paths, ... values=np.array([1.0, 2.0, 3.0]), ... widths=np.array([10.0, 1.0, 5.0]), ... width_limits=(1, 5), ... ) >>> fig, ax, lc = glyph.plot() >>> lw = lc.get_linewidths() >>> bool(lw[0] == max(lw) and lw[1] == min(lw)) True
See Also
cleopatra.glyphs.base.glyph.Glyph._prepare_scalar_mapping: Shared
norm/colorbar/ticks pipeline used to colour by values.
cleopatra.styling.styles.resolve_sizes: The value→size helper used for line
width (shared with ScatterGlyph).
cleopatra.glyphs.gridded.vector_glyph.VectorGlyph: Magnitude-coloured vector fields.
Source code in src/cleopatra/glyphs/primitives/flow_glyph.py
79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 256 257 258 259 260 261 262 263 264 265 266 267 268 269 270 271 272 273 274 275 276 277 278 279 280 281 282 283 284 285 286 287 288 289 290 291 292 293 294 295 296 297 298 299 300 301 302 303 304 305 306 307 308 309 310 311 312 313 314 315 316 317 318 319 320 321 322 323 324 325 326 327 328 329 330 331 332 333 334 335 336 337 338 339 340 341 342 343 344 345 346 347 348 349 350 351 352 353 354 355 356 357 358 359 360 361 362 363 364 365 366 367 368 369 370 371 372 373 374 375 376 377 378 379 380 381 382 383 384 385 386 387 388 389 390 391 392 393 394 395 396 397 398 399 400 401 402 403 404 405 406 407 408 409 410 411 412 413 414 415 416 417 418 419 420 421 422 423 424 425 426 427 | |
plot(ax=None, title=None, add_colorbar=None, colorbar=None, color=None, contour=None, classify=None)
#
Draw the flow paths, colouring by value and scaling by width.
Builds a LineCollection from paths. When values was supplied,
the colour scale, norm, ticks, and colorbar are resolved through
_prepare_scalar_mapping; otherwise a single-colour collection is
drawn with no colorbar. Line widths come from widths via
cleopatra.styling.styles.resolve_sizes, falling back to the scalar
line_width option. If size_legend is truthy and widths were
given, a width legend is drawn and stored on
self.size_legend_artist.
Parameters:
| Name | Type | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
ax
|
Axes | None
|
Axes to draw on. Falls back to the axes supplied at construction, otherwise a new figure/axes is created. |
None
|
title
|
str | None
|
Plot title. Overrides |
None
|
add_colorbar
|
bool | None
|
Override the |
None
|
colorbar
|
bool | ColorBar | None
|
Typed |
None
|
Returns:
| Type | Description |
|---|---|
tuple[Figure, Axes, LineCollection]
|
tuple[Figure, Axes, LineCollection]: The figure, the axes, and
the |
Raises:
| Type | Description |
|---|---|
ValueError
|
If the values have no finite entries (via
|
Examples:
- Uncoloured flows draw no colorbar:
- Coloured flows expose the per-path values on the collection:
>>> import numpy as np >>> from cleopatra.glyphs.primitives.flow_glyph import FlowGlyph >>> paths = [ ... np.array([[0.0, 0.0], [1.0, 1.0]]), ... np.array([[0.0, 1.0], [1.0, 0.0]]), ... ] >>> glyph = FlowGlyph(paths, values=np.array([3.0, 7.0])) >>> fig, ax, lc = glyph.plot(add_colorbar=False) >>> [float(v) for v in lc.get_array()] [3.0, 7.0] draw_order="width"paints the widest paths last (on top), so high stream-order channels sit over their tributaries:>>> import numpy as np >>> from cleopatra.glyphs.primitives.flow_glyph import FlowGlyph >>> paths = [ ... np.array([[0.0, 0.0], [1.0, 0.0]]), ... np.array([[0.0, 1.0], [1.0, 1.0]]), ... ] >>> glyph = FlowGlyph( ... paths, values=np.array([5.0, 1.0]), ... widths=np.array([5.0, 1.0]), width_limits=(1, 5), ... draw_order="width", ... ) >>> fig, ax, lc = glyph.plot(add_colorbar=False) >>> lw = lc.get_linewidths() >>> bool(lw[0] < lw[-1]) # thinnest drawn first, widest last True >>> [float(v) for v in lc.get_array()] # colours follow the reorder [1.0, 5.0]
Source code in src/cleopatra/glyphs/primitives/flow_glyph.py
240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 256 257 258 259 260 261 262 263 264 265 266 267 268 269 270 271 272 273 274 275 276 277 278 279 280 281 282 283 284 285 286 287 288 289 290 291 292 293 294 295 296 297 298 299 300 301 302 303 304 305 306 307 308 309 310 311 312 313 314 315 316 317 318 319 320 321 322 323 324 325 326 327 328 329 330 331 332 333 334 335 336 337 338 339 340 341 342 343 344 345 346 347 348 349 350 351 352 353 354 355 356 357 358 359 360 361 362 363 364 365 366 367 368 369 370 371 372 373 374 375 376 377 378 379 380 381 382 383 384 385 386 387 388 389 390 391 392 393 394 395 396 397 398 399 400 401 402 403 404 405 406 407 408 409 410 411 412 413 414 415 416 417 418 419 420 421 422 423 424 425 426 427 | |
Examples#
Magnitude-coloured, width-scaled flows#
import numpy as np
from cleopatra.glyphs.primitives.flow_glyph import FlowGlyph
paths = [
np.array([[0.0, 0.0], [1.0, 0.5], [2.0, 0.0]]),
np.array([[0.0, 1.0], [1.0, 1.5], [2.0, 1.0]]),
np.array([[0.0, 2.0], [1.0, 1.8], [2.0, 2.2]]),
]
values = np.array([10.0, 25.0, 40.0]) # colour
widths = np.array([1.0, 3.0, 6.0]) # line width
fg = FlowGlyph(paths, values=values, widths=widths, size_legend=True)
fig, ax, lc = fg.plot(title="Flow paths")