Gallery

This gallery contains examples of what PyGMT can do. Click on any example to see the code used to generate it.

Maps and map elements

Color land and water

Color land and water

Political Boundaries

Political Boundaries

Shorelines

Shorelines

Lines and vectors

Cartesian, circular, and geographic vectors

Cartesian, circular, and geographic vectors

Generate points along great circles

Generate points along great circles

Line colors with a custom CPT

Line colors with a custom CPT

Line fronts

Line fronts

Line styles

Line styles

Roads

Roads

Vector heads and tails

Vector heads and tails

Wiggle along tracks

Wiggle along tracks

Symbols and markers

Basic geometric symbols

Basic geometric symbols

Color points by categories

Color points by categories

Custom symbols

Custom symbols

Datetime inputs

Datetime inputs

Multi-parameter symbols

Multi-parameter symbols

Points

Points

Points with varying transparency

Points with varying transparency

Scatter plots with a legend

Scatter plots with a legend

Text symbols

Text symbols

Vertical or horizontal bars

Vertical or horizontal bars

Images, contours, and fields

Calculating grid gradient and radiance

Calculating grid gradient and radiance

Clipping grid values

Clipping grid values

Contours

Contours

Create ‘wet-dry’ mask grid

Create 'wet-dry' mask grid

Images on figures

Images on figures

Sampling along tracks

Sampling along tracks

3D Plots

3-D Scatter plots

3-D Scatter plots

Plotting a surface

Plotting a surface

Seismology and geodesy

Focal mechanisms

Focal mechanisms

Velocity arrows and confidence ellipses

Velocity arrows and confidence ellipses

Base maps

Double Y axes graph

Double Y axes graph

Ternary diagram

Ternary diagram

Histograms

Blockmean

Blockmean

Histogram

Histogram

Rose diagram

Rose diagram

Plot embellishments

Colorbar

Colorbar

Day-night terminator line and twilights

Day-night terminator line and twilights

Inset

Inset

Inset map showing a rectangular region

Inset map showing a rectangular region

Legend

Legend

Logo

Logo

Multiple colormaps

Multiple colormaps