I use it imsave()
sequentially to make a lot of PNGs that I will combine as AVI, and I would like to add text annotations. I use ImageJ to create an AVI or GIF.
I don't need axes, numbers, borders or anything else, just a color image (for example imsave()
) with text (and possibly arrows) inside. They will change in turn. Sorry for using the jet.
I could use it savefig()
with ticks and then do the cropping as post processing, but is there a more convenient, direct or “matplotlibithic” way to do this, which would not be so difficult on my hard drive? (the final thing will be pretty big).

, :
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
nx, ny = 101, 101
phi = np.zeros((ny, nx), dtype = 'float')
do_me = np.ones_like(phi, dtype='bool')
x0, y0, r0 = 40, 65, 12
x = np.arange(nx, dtype = 'float')[None,:]
y = np.arange(ny, dtype = 'float')[:,None]
rsq = (x-x0)**2 + (y-y0)**2
circle = rsq <= r0**2
phi[circle] = 1.0
do_me[circle] = False
do_me[0,:], do_me[-1,:], do_me[:,0], do_me[:,-1] = False, False, False, False
n, nper = 100, 100
phi_hold = np.zeros((n+1, ny, nx))
phi_hold[0] = phi
for i in range(n):
for j in range(nper):
phi2 = 0.25*(np.roll(phi, 1, axis=0) +
np.roll(phi, -1, axis=0) +
np.roll(phi, 1, axis=1) +
np.roll(phi, -1, axis=1) )
phi[do_me] = phi2[do_me]
phi_hold[i+1] = phi
change = phi_hold[1:] - phi_hold[:-1]
places = [(32, 20), (54,25), (11,32), (3, 12)]
plt.figure()
plt.imshow(change[50])
for (x, y) in places:
plt.text(x, y, "WOW", fontsize=16)
plt.text(5, 95, "Don't use Jet!", color="white", fontsize=20)
plt.show()