"""Original illustration for the 2016 Oxford Mathematical Methods II solution. Run from any output directory; writes only the matching PNG to that directory. Tested with Python 3.14, numpy 2.3.5 and matplotlib 3.10.7 (root pyproject.toml). """ from pathlib import Path import matplotlib matplotlib.use("Agg") import matplotlib.pyplot as plt import numpy as np plt.rcParams.update({"font.size": 11, "figure.facecolor": "white", "axes.facecolor": "white", "savefig.facecolor": "white"}) s=np.sqrt(2/3) x=np.linspace(-2.05,2.05,801);X,Y=np.meshgrid(x,x);F=X**3+Y**3-2*X-2*Y fig,ax=plt.subplots(figsize=(7.5,6.8),layout='constrained') cs=ax.contour(X,Y,F,levels=[-8,-5,-3,-2,-1,1,2,3,5,8],cmap='coolwarm',linewidths=1.1) ax.clabel(cs,fontsize=9,fmt='%g') ax.contour(X,Y,F,levels=[0],colors=['#303030'],linewidths=2) for xx,yy,label,col,offset in [(s,s,'local minimum', '#1456a0',(9,12)),(-s,-s,'local maximum','#a02323',(-103,-23)),(s,-s,'saddle','#20804b',(9,-23)),(-s,s,'saddle','#20804b',(-52,12))]: ax.scatter([xx],[yy],s=48,c=col,edgecolors='white',zorder=5) ax.annotate(label,(xx,yy),xytext=offset,textcoords='offset points',fontsize=10,color=col,bbox=dict(facecolor='white',alpha=.85,edgecolor='none',pad=1)) ax.set(xlim=(-2.05,2.05),ylim=(-2.05,2.05),xlabel='$x$',ylabel='$y$',title=r'$f(x,y)=x^3+y^3-2x-2y$'+'\nBlack zero contour: line and ellipse') ax.set_aspect('equal');ax.grid(alpha=.15) fig.savefig(Path.cwd()/'2016-stationary-contours.png',dpi=140,transparent=False) plt.close(fig)