Donut Plots

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Fri Feb 02, 2018 7:23 pm
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Donut Plots

Another possibility -- this one was designed for a dimmer.

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Re: Donut Plots

Frick, I was excited at the title - thought it was plotting the fastest route to the donut shop... now THAT would have some W.A.F.! I do like that idea for use on a dimmer - does it look okay at smaller resolutions (like 48x48) or would it need to be a larger graphic?

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Re: Donut Plots

Heh, now *that* would be a plugin to have. Here's one that's something like 60x60 (the plot, not the canvas).

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Here's a fancier version of the larger size (that's still rough).

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Re: Donut Plots

The rendering of graphics in PNG seems to be worse the smaller you go. This one's about 100x100.

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Added to a control page with text:

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They look much better when rendered as vector images.

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Re: Donut Plots

I really like the idea of this. I haven't dove into Matplotlib yet but for control pages I've tried to think of a way to have the circular "brightness indication" as an image behind a round button. So in your example the button would be transparent where your blue is (to as much or as little of a slice as desired). I actually was writing a control page package last year but gave up on it because I was using all round buttons and it felt only half there, but with this I could make those round buttons far more useful. This isn't to say that I'm going to revisit that idea or that I need this Donut Plot, but that's one really cool use for it.

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Re: Donut Plots

Can't take credit for the idea; others have posted similar implementations--just putting my spin on it to see if it would be a useful matplotlib plugin device type (there would be others in the same family). Here is the bare-bones script that I used to generate the image. It's from a scratchpad and not the plugin.

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#! /usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import matplotlib.patches as patches

fig = plt.figure(1, figsize=(.5,.5), dpi=200)
ax = fig.add_subplot(111, axisbg='#FFFFFF')

level = 60
on = True
k_dict = {'bbox_extra_artists': None, 'bbox_inches': None, 'format': None, 'frameon': None, 'orientation': None, 'pad_inches': None,
          'papertype': None, 'transparent': True}
         
if on:
    colors = ['#000000','#0000FF']
else:
    colors = ['#000000','#333333']

wedges, texts = ax.pie([100-level, level], colors=colors, startangle=90)

wedges[1].set_edgecolor('#000000')

inner_circle = plt.Circle((0,0), .65, facecolor="#000000", edgecolor='#777777', lw=.25)
ax.add_artist(inner_circle)

outer_circle = plt.Circle((0,0), 1, facecolor=None, edgecolor='#777777', fill=False, alpha=1, lw=.25)
ax.add_artist(outer_circle)

plt.subplots_adjust(left=0, bottom=0, right=1, top=1, wspace=0, hspace=0)

plt.savefig('/Users/USERNAME/Desktop/figure_on1.png', dpi=200, **k_dict)


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