PyX — Example: axis/link.py
Linking one axis to another one
import math from pyx import * c = canvas.canvas() g1 = c.insert(graph.graphxy(width=8)) g1.plot(graph.data.function("y(x)=2*exp(-30*x)-exp(-3*x)", min=0, max=1)) g2 = c.insert(graph.graphxy(width=8, ypos=g1.height+0.5, x=graph.axis.linkedaxis(g1.axes["x"]))) g2.plot(graph.data.function("y(x)=cos(20*x)*exp(-2*x)")) c.writeEPSfile("link") c.writePDFfile("link") c.writeSVGfile("link")
Description
When plotting two or more related graphs, you sometimes want to have identical axes. This example demonstrates how to achieve this goal in PyX using a linkedaxis.
In order to arrange the two graphs, we first create a canvas c, in which we insert the first graph g1 (the lower panel in the output), which contains the graph of a function.
In the next graph g2 (the upper panel in the output), we now refer to the x-axis of g1. We do this by creating a graph.axis.linkedaxis instance passing the x-axis of g1 as the only argument. The latter is obtained from the axis dictionary axes of the graph.
Note that for a linked axis, PyX automatically turns off the drawing of the axis labels, as you can see in the upper panel. If you do not like this behaviour, you have to pass a different axis painter to the linkedaxis constructor.