"""Original illustration for the 2016 Oxford Physics 2 resit solutions. Writes only the matching PNG to the current working 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"}) from itertools import product verts=list(product([0,1],repeat=3));xy={v:np.array([v[0]+.42*v[2],v[1]+.36*v[2]])for v in verts} pot={(0,0,0):1,(1,0,0):0,(0,1,0):9/14,(0,0,1):9/14,(1,1,0):5/14,(1,0,1):5/14,(0,1,1):4/7,(1,1,1):3/7} labels={(0,0,0):'$A:1$',(1,0,0):'$B:0$',(0,1,0):'$9/14$',(0,0,1):'$9/14$',(1,1,0):'$5/14$',(1,0,1):'$5/14$',(0,1,1):'$4/7$',(1,1,1):'$3/7$'} offsets={(0,0,0):(-.12,-.14),(1,0,0):(-.02,-.14),(0,1,0):(-.14,.04),(0,0,1):(-.18,-.12),(1,1,0):(.02,-.12),(1,0,1):(.02,-.11),(0,1,1):(-.16,.06),(1,1,1):(.03,.04)} fig,ax=plt.subplots(figsize=(6.5,5.5),layout='constrained') for i,u in enumerate(verts): for v in verts[i+1:]: if sum(a!=b for a,b in zip(u,v))!=1:continue p,q=xy[u],xy[v];d=q-p;perp=np.array([-d[1],d[0]])/np.linalg.norm(d);t=np.linspace(0,1,65);zig=np.zeros_like(t);mask=(t>.3)&(t<.7);zig[mask]=.025*np.sin(10*np.pi*(t[mask]-.3)/.4);line=p[None,:]+t[:,None]*d+zig[:,None]*perp ax.plot(line[:,0],line[:,1],color='.45',lw=1.4,zorder=1) for v in verts: p=xy[v];ax.scatter([p[0]],[p[1]],s=75,c=[plt.cm.viridis(pot[v])],edgecolors='black',lw=.6,zorder=3);off=np.array(offsets[v]);ax.text(*(p+off),labels[v],fontsize=12,zorder=4,bbox={'facecolor':'white','edgecolor':'none','alpha':.88,'pad':1}) ax.set_aspect('equal');ax.set(xlim=(-.3,1.8),ylim=(-.3,1.66),title='Adjacent cube terminals: unit voltage, every edge $R$');ax.axis('off');ax.text(.7,-.27,r'$I_A=12/(7R)$, so $R_{AB}=7R/12$',ha='center',fontsize=12) fig.savefig(Path.cwd()/'2016-resit-cube-resistor-potentials.png',dpi=140,transparent=False);plt.close(fig)