cairo_visualization_wheel

cairo_visualization_wheel is a Python script that uses matplotlib to create visualization wheels as seen in Alberto Cairo's book (see Figure 3.2).

Author

Dent Earl

Dependencies

• Python 2.7
• matplotlib 1.1.0

Installation

1. Download the package.
2. cd into the directory.
3. Type make.

Input file format

The input file may contain comment lines (lines that start with #). The file must contain at least six lines that consist of a decimal number between 0.0 and 1.0 (inclusive).

Usage

usage: cairo_visualization_wheel input_file

positional arguments:
  metrics_file          path to metrics file.

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --out OUT             basename and path of output image. default=cairo_wheel
  --out_format OUT_FORMAT
                        output format, may be all, pdf, eps or png. default=eps
  --width WIDTH         Width of the image in inches. default=5.000000
  --height HEIGHT       Height of the image in inches. default=4.000000
  --dpi DPI             DPI for png output. default=300

Examples

bin/cairo_visualization_wheel example/metrics.txt --outFormat png --out img/example.png

References

• Alberto Cairo, The Functional Art, 2013 New Riders, Berkeley, CA, USA. http://www.thefunctionalart.com/