在matplotlib中使用PathCollections的图例

Question

我正在使用集合绘制圆圈组，但我无法生成这三个类别的图例。我想要：

• Cat 1：红色圆圈
• Cat 2：蓝色圆圈
• Cat 3：黄色圆圈

import matplotlib
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from matplotlib.collections import PatchCollection
from matplotlib.patches import Circle
import numpy as np

# (modified from one of the matplotlib gallery examples)
resolution = 50 # the number of vertices
N = 50
Na = 25
Nb = 10
x        = np.random.random(N)
y       = np.random.random(N)
radii   = 0.1*np.random.random(30)

xa       = np.random.random(Na)
ya       = np.random.random(Na)
radiia   = 0.1*np.random.random(50)


xb       = np.random.random(Nb)
yb       = np.random.random(Nb)
radiib   = 0.1*np.random.random(60)

patches = []
patchesa = []
patchesb = []
for x1,y1,r in zip(x, y, radii):
     circle = Circle((x1,y1), r)
     patches.append(circle)

for x1,y1,r in zip(xa, ya, radiia):
    circle = Circle((x1,y1), r)
    patchesa.append(circle)

for x1,y1,r in zip(xb, yb, radiib):
    circle = Circle((x1,y1), r)
    patchesb.append(circle)


fig = plt.figure()
ax = fig.add_subplot(111)

colors = 100*np.random.random(N)
p = PatchCollection(patches, cmap=matplotlib.cm.jet, alpha=0.4, label= "Cat 1", facecolor="red")
pa = PatchCollection(patchesa, cmap=matplotlib.cm.jet, alpha=0.3, label= "Cat 2", facecolor="blue")
pb = PatchCollection(patchesb, cmap=matplotlib.cm.jet, alpha=0.4, label= "Cat 3", facecolor="yellow")
#p.set_array(colors)
ax.add_collection(p)
ax.add_collection(pa)
ax.add_collection(pb)
ax.legend(loc = 2)
plt.colorbar(p)

print p.get_label()

plt.show()

PathCollection不是可迭代的对象，因此尝试按以下方式生成图例;

legend([p, pa, pb], ["cat 1", "2 cat", "cat 3"])

不起作用。

如何显示标题？

我的系统在Python 2.7和Matplotlib 1.2.0_1上运行

请注意，命令print p.get_label()显示对象具有关联标签，但matplotlib无法挂载图例。

Answer 1

一种可能的解决方案是添加要在图例中使用的Line2D个对象，也称为使用代理艺术家。要实现此目的，您必须在脚本中添加from matplotlib.lines import Line2D，然后您可以替换此代码：

ax.legend(loc = 2)
plt.colorbar(p)

print p.get_label()

用这个：

circ1 = Line2D([0], [0], linestyle="none", marker="o", alpha=0.4, markersize=10, markerfacecolor="red")
circ2 = Line2D([0], [0], linestyle="none", marker="o", alpha=0.3, markersize=10, markerfacecolor="blue")
circ3 = Line2D([0], [0], linestyle="none", marker="o", alpha=0.4, markersize=10, markerfacecolor="yellow")

plt.legend((circ1, circ2, circ3), ("Cat 1", "Cat 2", "Cat 3"), numpoints=1, loc="best")