Inserting a small, embedded figure can be helpful in showing a detail of a figure, or more generally, to emphasize a particular part of a graphic. In this recipe, we are going to see how to insert a subfigure into a figure.
matplotlib allows us to create subregions in any part of a figure, and assign a figure to that subregion. In the following example, a subregion is created to show a detail of the curve:
import numpy as np from matplotlib import pyplot as plt X = np.linspace(-6, 6, 1024) Y = np.sinc(X) X_detail = np.linspace(-3, 3, 1024) Y_detail = np.sinc(X_detail) plt.plot(X, Y, c = 'k') sub_axes = plt.axes([.6, .6, .25, .25]) sub_axes.plot(X_detail, Y_detail, c = 'k') plt.setp(sub_axes) plt.show()
The subregion is shown on the upper-right part of the figure.
