"""Original Q20 parabolas and an orthogonal ellipse; PNG goes to 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(): x = np.linspace(-1.8, 1.8, 1000) fig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(7, 5.2), layout="constrained") fig.patch.set_facecolor("white") ax.set_facecolor("white") colours = ["#206b96", "#168f9b", "#4e9c54", "#777777", "#b67c13", "#bc4939", "#a44b94"] for c, colour in zip(range(-3, 4), colours): ax.plot(x, c * x * x, color=colour, linewidth=1.6, label=f"$c={c}$") theta = np.linspace(0, 2 * np.pi, 1000) ax.plot(np.sqrt(2) * np.cos(theta), np.sin(theta), "k--", linewidth=2.5, label=r"$x^2+2y^2=2$") ax.axvline(0, color="#999999", linewidth=0.7) ax.set(xlim=(-1.75, 1.75), ylim=(-2.3, 2.3), xlabel="$x$", ylabel="$y$", title=r"$y=cx^2$ and an orthogonal trajectory") ax.set_aspect("equal") ax.grid(alpha=0.18) ax.legend(loc="upper left", bbox_to_anchor=(1.01, 1), fontsize=10) ax.spines[["top", "right"]].set_visible(False) fig.savefig(Path("paper-1-orthogonal-trajectories.png"), dpi=160, facecolor="white") plt.close(fig) if __name__ == "__main__": main()