Trifinder Event Demo

Example showing the use of a TriFinder object. As the mouse is moved over the triangulation, the triangle under the cursor is highlighted and the index of the triangle is displayed in the plot title.

Note

This example exercises the interactive capabilities of Matplotlib, and this will not appear in the static documentation. Please run this code on your machine to see the interactivity.

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import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from matplotlib.tri import Triangulation
from matplotlib.patches import Polygon
import numpy as np


def update_polygon(tri):
    if tri == -1:
        points = [0, 0, 0]
    else:
        points = triang.triangles[tri]
    xs = triang.x[points]
    ys = triang.y[points]
    polygon.set_xy(np.column_stack([xs, ys]))


def on_mouse_move(event):
    if event.inaxes is None:
        tri = -1
    else:
        tri = trifinder(event.xdata, event.ydata)
    update_polygon(tri)
    ax.set_title(f'In triangle {tri}')
    event.canvas.draw()


# Create a Triangulation.
n_angles = 16
n_radii = 5
min_radius = 0.25
radii = np.linspace(min_radius, 0.95, n_radii)
angles = np.linspace(0, 2 * np.pi, n_angles, endpoint=False)
angles = np.repeat(angles[..., np.newaxis], n_radii, axis=1)
angles[:, 1::2] += np.pi / n_angles
x = (radii*np.cos(angles)).flatten()
y = (radii*np.sin(angles)).flatten()
triang = Triangulation(x, y)
triang.set_mask(np.hypot(x[triang.triangles].mean(axis=1),
                         y[triang.triangles].mean(axis=1))
                < min_radius)

# Use the triangulation's default TriFinder object.
trifinder = triang.get_trifinder()

# Setup plot and callbacks.
fig, ax = plt.subplots(subplot_kw={'aspect': 'equal'})
ax.triplot(triang, 'bo-')
polygon = Polygon([[0, 0], [0, 0]], facecolor='y')  # dummy data for (xs, ys)
update_polygon(-1)
ax.add_patch(polygon)
fig.canvas.mpl_connect('motion_notify_event', on_mouse_move)
plt.show()