使用 matplotlib GridSpec 绘制缩略图

Question

SO 上有 number of questions 关于使用 matplotlib 创建 "thumbnail" 图（即较大图的较小版本，其中缩略图覆盖在原始图上）。

但是，我找不到使用 GridSpec 图来执行此操作的方法。我知道这是因为来自 GridSpec 的轴无法转换（即调整大小和翻译）。

这是重现问题的完整脚本：

import matplotlib
from matplotlib import gridspec, pyplot
from matplotlib.backends.backend_pdf import PdfPages

def add_inset_to_axis(figure, axis, rect):
    left, bottom, width, height = rect
    def transform(coord):
        return figure.transFigure.inverted().transform(
            axis.transAxes.transform(coord))
    fig_left, fig_bottom = transform((left, bottom))
    fig_width, fig_height = transform([width, height]) - transform([0, 0])
    return figure.add_axes([fig_left, fig_bottom, fig_width, fig_height])

def main():
    pdf = PdfPages('example.pdf')
    fig = pyplot.figure()
    n_rows, n_cols = 2, 2
    x_range = (-100, 100)
    outer_grid = gridspec.GridSpec(n_rows, n_cols)
    index, row, col = 0, 0, 0
    while index < n_rows * n_cols:
        data = [x for x in xrange(*x_range)]
        grid_cell = outer_grid[row, col]
        axis = pyplot.subplot(grid_cell)
        axis.plot(range(*x_range), data)
        inset = add_inset_to_axis(fig, grid_cell, (0.675, 0.82, 0.3, 0.15))
        inset.plot(range(0, 10), data[0:10])
        col += 1
        if col == 2:
            col = 0
            row += 1
        index = row * 2 + col
    pdf.savefig(fig)
    pdf.close()

if __name__ == '__main__':
    print('Using matplotlib version %s' % matplotlib.__version__)
    main()

输出：

Using matplotlib version 1.5.1
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "Whosebug_inset.py", line 38, in <module>
    main()
  File "Whosebug_inset.py", line 26, in main
    inset = add_inset_to_axis(fig, grid_cell, (0.675, 0.82, 0.3, 0.15))
  File "Whosebug_inset.py", line 10, in add_inset_to_axis
    fig_left, fig_bottom = transform((left, bottom))
  File "Whosebug_inset.py", line 9, in transform
    axis.transAxes.transform(coord))
AttributeError: 'SubplotSpec' object has no attribute 'transAxes'

有办法解决这个问题吗？

Answer 1

从函数定义 add_inset_to_axis(figure, axis, rect) 看来，第二个参数实际上是一个 matplotlib.axes 实例。

因此，与其将 grid_cell 作为参数，不如使用 axis

inset = add_inset_to_axis(fig, axis, (0.675, 0.82, 0.3, 0.15))

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