File:Gradient Visual.svg

From formulasearchengine
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Original file(SVG file, nominally 720 × 540 pixels, file size: 197 KB)

This file is from Wikimedia Commons and may be used by other projects. The description on its file description page there is shown below.

Summary

 
The SVG code is valid.
 
This plot was created with Matplotlib.
Description
English: Recreate the PNG image Gradient99.png (see below) in SVG.
Date
Source Own work
Author IkamusumeFan
Other versions
Source code
InfoField

Python code

"""Generate the graph of the function $f(x,y) = -(\cos^2x + \cos^2y)^2$."""

import numpy as np
from pylab import *
from mpl_toolkits.mplot3d import Axes3D
from matplotlib.patches import FancyArrowPatch
from mpl_toolkits.mplot3d import proj3d

# Thanks to CT Zhu. See the link as follows
# http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22867620/putting-arrowheads-on-vectors-in-matplotlibs-3d-plot
class Arrow3D(FancyArrowPatch):
    def __init__(self, xs, ys, zs, *args, **kwargs):
        FancyArrowPatch.__init__(self, (0,0), (0,0), *args, **kwargs)
        self._verts3d = xs, ys, zs

    def draw(self, renderer):
        xs3d, ys3d, zs3d = self._verts3d
        xs, ys, zs = proj3d.proj_transform(xs3d, ys3d, zs3d, renderer.M)
        self.set_positions((xs[0],ys[0]),(xs[1],ys[1]))
        FancyArrowPatch.draw(self, renderer)

# draw the frames
ax = Axes3D(figure(), azim = -135, elev = 45)
X = arange(-pi/2, pi/2, pi/100)	# set ranges
Y = arange(-pi/2, pi/2, pi/100)
X, Y = meshgrid(X, Y)
Z = -(cos(X)**2+cos(Y)**2)**2	# give the function
ax.plot_wireframe(X, Y, Z, rstride = 10, cstride = 10)
ax.set_xlabel("x")
ax.set_ylabel("y")
ax.set_zlabel('f(x,y)')
ax.set_xlim([-pi/2,pi/2])
ax.set_ylim([-pi/2,pi/2])
ax.set_zlim([-4,0])

# draw the contoured quiver
X1 = arange(-pi/2, pi/2, pi/20)	# start of the arrows
Y1 = arange(-pi/2, pi/2, pi/20)
for x in X1:
	for y in Y1:
		ax.add_artist(Arrow3D([x,x+4*sin(x)*cos(x)*(cos(x)**2+cos(y)**2)*0.06],\
		[y,y+4*sin(y)*cos(y)*(cos(x)**2+cos(y)**2)*0.06],\
		[-3.9999,-4.0000],lw=1, mutation_scale=5,arrowstyle="->", color="r"))

plt.savefig("gradient_vis.svg")

Licensing

I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following license:
w:en:Creative Commons
attribution share alike
This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.
You are free:
  • to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work
  • to remix – to adapt the work
Under the following conditions:
  • attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
  • share alike – If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same or compatible license as the original.

Captions

Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents

Items portrayed in this file

depicts

26 October 2014

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current11:24, 26 October 2014Thumbnail for version as of 11:24, 26 October 2014720 × 540 (197 KB)wikimediacommons>IkamusumeFanUser created page with UploadWizard

There are no pages that use this file.