.. note:: :class: sphx-glr-download-link-note Click :ref:`here ` to download the full example code .. rst-class:: sphx-glr-example-title .. _sphx_glr_intro_matplotlib_auto_examples_pretty_plots_plot_polar_ext.py: Plotting in polar, decorated ============================= An example showing how to plot in polar coordinnate, and some decorations. .. image:: /intro/matplotlib/auto_examples/pretty_plots/images/sphx_glr_plot_polar_ext_001.png :class: sphx-glr-single-img .. code-block:: python import numpy as np import matplotlib.pyplot as plt plt.subplot(1, 1, 1, polar=True) N = 20 theta = np.arange(0.0, 2 * np.pi, 2 * np.pi / N) radii = 10 * np.random.rand(N) width = np.pi / 4 * np.random.rand(N) bars = plt.bar(theta, radii, width=width, bottom=0.0) for r, bar in zip(radii, bars): bar.set_facecolor(plt.cm.jet(r / 10.)) bar.set_alpha(0.5) plt.gca().set_xticklabels([]) plt.gca().set_yticklabels([]) plt.text(-0.2, 1.02, " Polar Axis \n", horizontalalignment='left', verticalalignment='top', size='xx-large', bbox=dict(facecolor='white', alpha=1.0), transform=plt.gca().transAxes) plt.text(-0.2, 1.01, "\n\n Plot anything using polar axis ", horizontalalignment='left', verticalalignment='top', size='large', transform=plt.gca().transAxes) plt.show() **Total running time of the script:** ( 0 minutes 0.045 seconds) .. _sphx_glr_download_intro_matplotlib_auto_examples_pretty_plots_plot_polar_ext.py: .. only :: html .. container:: sphx-glr-footer :class: sphx-glr-footer-example .. container:: sphx-glr-download :download:`Download Python source code: plot_polar_ext.py ` .. container:: sphx-glr-download :download:`Download Jupyter notebook: plot_polar_ext.ipynb ` .. only:: html .. rst-class:: sphx-glr-signature `Gallery generated by Sphinx-Gallery `_