"""Plot the successive area factors of B and A; save a white PNG in CWD. Tested with Python 3.14.4, NumPy 2.3.5, and Matplotlib 3.10.7. """ from pathlib import Path import matplotlib matplotlib.use("Agg") import matplotlib.pyplot as plt import numpy as np def main(): plt.rcParams.update({"font.size": 11, "figure.facecolor": "white"}) fig, axes = plt.subplots(1, 3, figsize=(10.2, 5.9), facecolor="white") fig.subplots_adjust(left=0.055, right=0.97, bottom=0.17, top=0.75, wspace=0.25) a = np.array([[2, 1], [1, 3]]) b = np.diag([1, 2]) corners = np.array([[0, 0], [1, 0], [1, 1], [0, 1]]) blue, orange = "#2365a0", "#b64a18" for ax, matrix, heading, area in zip(axes, [np.eye(2), b, a @ b], ["Original square", "After B", "After A: AB"], [1, 2, 10]): vertices = corners @ matrix.T ax.set_facecolor("white") ax.set_aspect("equal") ax.set_xlim(-0.45, 4.65) ax.set_ylim(-0.45, 7.6) ax.set_xticks(range(5)) ax.set_yticks(range(8)) ax.grid(color="#e7e7e7", linewidth=0.7, zorder=0) ax.axhline(0, color="#999999", linewidth=0.8) ax.axvline(0, color="#999999", linewidth=0.8) ax.spines[["top", "right"]].set_visible(False) ax.tick_params(labelsize=9, length=0) ax.fill(*vertices.T, color="#bddbd2", alpha=0.7, zorder=2) closed = np.vstack([vertices, vertices[0]]) ax.plot(*closed.T, color="#3e7366", linewidth=1.8, zorder=3) for col, color in zip(matrix.T, [blue, orange]): ax.annotate("", col, (0, 0), arrowprops={"arrowstyle": "->", "color": color, "lw": 2.8, "mutation_scale": 15, "shrinkA": 0, "shrinkB": 0}, zorder=5) ax.plot(*vertices[2], "o", color="#3e7366", markersize=4, zorder=4) ax.set_title(heading, fontsize=13, pad=12) ax.text(0.5, -0.14, f"area = {area}", transform=ax.transAxes, ha="center", fontsize=12) ax.set_xlabel("x", fontsize=10) ax.set_ylabel("y", fontsize=10) fig.suptitle("Two maps multiply their area factors", fontsize=17, y=0.965) fig.text(0.5, 0.90, r"$B=\mathrm{diag}(1,2)$ $A=(\, (2,1)^T\;\; (1,3)^T\,)$", ha="center", fontsize=13) centers = [ax.get_position().x0 + ax.get_position().width / 2 for ax in axes] for left, right, label in [(centers[0], centers[1], "apply B: ×2"), (centers[1], centers[2], "apply A: ×5")]: axes[0].annotate("", xy=(right - 0.06, 0.805), xytext=(left + 0.06, 0.805), xycoords=fig.transFigure, textcoords=fig.transFigure, arrowprops={"arrowstyle": "->", "color": "#333333", "lw": 1.5}) fig.text((left + right) / 2, 0.83, label, ha="center", fontsize=12) fig.text(0.5, 0.055, r"$1\times 2\times 5=10$ $\det(AB)=\det(A)\det(B)$ Same coordinate scale in every panel", ha="center", fontsize=12) fig.savefig(Path.cwd() / (Path(__file__).stem + ".png"), dpi=100, facecolor="white", transparent=False) plt.close(fig) if __name__ == "__main__": main()