Polar Plots¶

Plots in polar coordinates are drawn on ziaplot.polar.Polar axes. While a ziaplot.dataseries.Line can be drawn on a polar axis, the x and y values are Cartesian. To add a line in polar (radius and angle) form, use the ziaplot.polar.LinePolar series, which can take angles in degrees or radians.

The style.polar.rlabeltheta style parameter can be useful to align the radius/magnitude tick labels so they don’t get hidden by data.

th = zp.linspace(0, 2*math.pi, 500)
r = [math.cos(7*t+math.pi/6) for t in th]

with zp.Polar() as p:
    p.style.polar.rlabeltheta = 15
    zp.LinePolar(r, th)

_images/polar_1_0.svg

Smith Charts¶

Normalized Smith Charts are created using ziaplot.smith.Smith. The grid density can be changed using the grid argument.

_images/polar_2_0.svg

Discrete data may be plotted on Smith charts using either ziaplot.dataseries.Line or ziaplot.polar.LinePolar, depending on the data format. Alternatively, curves of constant resistance and constant reactance may be drawn with ziaplot.smith.SmithConstResistance and ziaplot.smith.SmithConstReactance.

with zp.Smith(grid='coarse'):
    zp.SmithConstReactance(0.5)
    zp.SmithConstResistance(1)

_images/polar_3_0.svg