Matplotlib. co-ordinates for scatter plot are off

[EricGarlic]

On Tuesday, November 26, 2013 7:34:31 PM UTC, EricGarlic wrote:
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Correction:  I meant Plot not Scatter - corrected below.  Issue is with Plot statement


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> I have been following a very good online tutorial for matplotlib: 
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> http://www.loria.fr/~rougier/teaching/matplotlib/#introduction
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> However, when I try to annotate the point where the cosine/sine graphs cross the plot graph misses the point where it crosses the axes; green and pink colours.
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> Anyone know why and/or what I have done wrong?
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> Help appreciated
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> _______________________CODE BELOW_________________
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> #the points
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> x = np.linspace(-np.pi, np.pi, 256, endpoint=True)
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> C,S=np.cos(x), np.sin(x)
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> #axis limits
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> xlim(x.min()*1.1, x.max()*1.1)
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> ylim(C.min()*1.1,C.max()*1.1)
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> #spines, there are four (top, bottom, left and right).
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> #spines, remove top and right, and move left and bottom
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> #gca returns current axis instance.  Used to control axis properties using either set or "Axes" methods
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> #I assume "gca" stands for Get Current Axis, like "gcf" stands for Get Current Figure
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> ax=gca()
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> #spines
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> ax.spines['right'].set_color('none')
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> ax.spines['top'].set_color('none')
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> #ticks
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> ax.xaxis.set_ticks_position('bottom')
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> ax.yaxis.set_ticks_position('left')
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> #reposition
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> ax.spines['left'].set_position(('data',0))
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> ax.spines['bottom'].set_position(('data',0))
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> #ticks ticks as tuples and labels as LaTex tuples.
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> #Note: if these next two lines of code go before the spine changes the labelling is lost
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> xticks([-np.pi,-np.pi/2,0,np.pi/2,np.pi],[r'$-\pi$',r'$-\pi/2$',r'$0$',r'$+\pi/2$',r'$+\pi$'])
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> yticks([-1,0,1],[r'$-1$',r'0',r'$+1$'])
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> #plotting
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> plot(x,C,color="blue", linewidth = 2.5, linestyle="dotted",label = 'Sine')
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> plot(x,S, color="red", linewidth="2.5",linestyle="-.", label='Cosine')
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> #legend. Note remember to add label to plot statement e.g. 'Sine' as the legend requires it
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> #NOTE:  legend has to go after plot statement in order to get the graph labels
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> legend(loc='upper left')
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> #Annotation
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> #the green point.  NOTE: use the scatter method
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> t=pi/4
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> scatter([t,],[np.cos(t),],color='green',linewidth=10)
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> #draw the lines with plot
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> plot([t,cos(t)],[t,0],color='green')
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> plot([0,cos(t)],[t,cos(t)],color='pink')
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> scatter([t,],[0,],color='black')
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> scatter([0,],[cos(t),],color='black')
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> show()