Note
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Line styles¶
The pygmt.Figure.plot
method can plot lines in different styles.
The default line style is a 0.25-point wide, black, solid line, and can be
customized via the pen
argument.
A pen in GMT has three attributes: width, color, and style. The style attribute controls the appearance of the line. Giving “dotted” or “.” yields a dotted line, whereas a dashed pen is requested with “dashed” or “-”. Also combinations of dots and dashes, like “.-” for a dot-dashed line, are allowed.
For more advanced pen attributes, see the GMT cookbook https://docs.generic-mapping-tools.org/latest/cookbook/features.html#wpen-attrib.
![linestyles](../../_images/sphx_glr_linestyles_001.png)
Out:
<IPython.core.display.Image object>
import numpy as np
import pygmt
# Generate a two-point line for plotting
x = np.array([0, 7])
y = np.array([9, 9])
fig = pygmt.Figure()
fig.basemap(region=[0, 10, 0, 10], projection="X15c/8c", frame='+t"Line Styles"')
# Plot the line using the default line style
fig.plot(x=x, y=y)
fig.text(x=x[-1], y=y[-1], text="solid (default)", justify="ML", offset="0.2c/0c")
# Plot the line using different line styles
for linestyle in [
"1p,red,-", # dashed line
"1p,blue,.", # dotted line
"1p,lightblue,-.", # dash-dotted line
"2p,blue,..-", # dot-dot-dashed line
"2p,tomato,--.", # dash-dash-dotted line
"2p,tomato,4_2:2p", # A pattern of 4-point-long line segment and 2-point-gap between segment
]:
y -= 1 # Move the current line down
fig.plot(x=x, y=y, pen=linestyle)
fig.text(x=x[-1], y=y[-1], text=linestyle, justify="ML", offset="0.2c/0c")
# Plot the line like a railway track (black/white).
# The trick here is plotting the same line twice but with different line styles
y -= 1 # move the current line down
fig.plot(x=x, y=y, pen="5p,black")
fig.plot(x=x, y=y, pen="4p,white,20p_20p")
fig.text(x=x[-1], y=y[-1], text="5p,black", justify="ML", offset="0.2c/0.2c")
fig.text(x=x[-1], y=y[-1], text="4p,white,20p_20p", justify="ML", offset="0.2c/-0.2c")
fig.show()
Total running time of the script: ( 0 minutes 2.928 seconds)