"""Original Q14 contours, labelled by log(f); write the PNG to the 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(): grid = np.linspace(-2, 2, 501) x, y = np.meshgrid(grid, grid) fig, axes = plt.subplots(1, 2, figsize=(9.2, 4.6), layout="constrained") fig.patch.set_facecolor("white") for ax, a in zip(axes, [1, -1]): ax.set_facecolor("white") g = (x * x + y * y) / 2 + a * x**4 / 4 levels = [0.05, 0.125, 0.25, 0.5, 1, 2, 3] if a == 1 else [-0.5, 0, 0.1, 0.25, 0.5, 1, 2] contours = ax.contour(x, y, g, levels=levels, cmap="viridis", linewidths=1.2) ax.clabel(contours, fmt="%g", fontsize=8) if a == -1: ax.contour(x, y, g, levels=[0.25], colors=["#ba4035"], linewidths=1.8) ax.scatter([-1, 1], [0, 0], color="#ba4035", marker="x", s=55, linewidth=2, zorder=5, label="Saddles") ax.scatter(0, 0, color="#247045", s=32, zorder=5, label="Minimum") ax.set(xlim=(-2, 2), ylim=(-2, 2), xlabel="$x$", ylabel="$y$", title=f"$a={a}$") ax.set_aspect("equal") ax.grid(alpha=0.13) ax.legend(loc="lower left", fontsize=8, framealpha=0.95) fig.suptitle(r"Contours of $f$: numbers denote $\log f=(x^2+y^2)/2+ax^4/4$") fig.savefig(Path("paper-1-stationary-contours.png"), dpi=160, facecolor="white") plt.close(fig) if __name__ == "__main__": main()