"""Draw the symbolic band changes in unpivoted tridiagonal elimination. Tested with Python 3.14, matplotlib 3.10.7 and NumPy 2.3.5. Run from _media; the output basename matches this generator. """ from pathlib import Path import matplotlib.pyplot as plt from matplotlib.patches import Rectangle def panel(ax, stage): n = 5 colors = {"diagonal": "#dbe9f4", "upper": "#e6f1e8", "lower": "#eee7f7"} for i in range(n): for j in range(n): eliminated = i == j + 1 and i <= stage text, color = "", "white" if i == j: text = rf"$p_{i+1}$" if i <= stage else rf"$b_{i+1}$" color = colors["diagonal"] if i == stage and stage: color = "#ffdba1" elif j == i + 1: text, color = rf"$c_{i+1}$", colors["upper"] elif i == j + 1: text = "0" if eliminated else rf"$a_{i+1}$" color = "#f7f7f7" if eliminated else colors["lower"] ax.add_patch(Rectangle((j, n - i - 1), 1, 1, facecolor=color, edgecolor="#b9c0c6", linewidth=0.7)) if text: ax.text(j + .5, n - i - .5, text, ha="center", va="center", fontsize=13) ax.set(xlim=(-.05, 5.05), ylim=(-.05, 5.05), aspect="equal") ax.axis("off") def main(): fig, axes = plt.subplots(1, 3, figsize=(10.8, 4.2), facecolor="white") titles = ["Start: three diagonals", "After eliminating row 2", "After eliminating row 3"] for stage, ax in enumerate(axes): panel(ax, stage) ax.set_title(titles[stage], fontsize=12, pad=12) fig.suptitle("Eliminate one neighbour; update one diagonal", fontsize=16, y=.98) fig.text(.5, .11, r"$m_i=a_i/p_{i-1}$ $p_i=b_i-m_i c_{i-1}$ $g_i=d_i-m_i g_{i-1}$", ha="center", fontsize=14) fig.text(.5, .025, "Orange: newly updated pivot. Blank cells stay zero. The upper diagonal stays unchanged.", ha="center", fontsize=11) fig.subplots_adjust(left=.035, right=.975, top=.79, bottom=.21, wspace=.22) fig.savefig(Path(__file__).with_suffix(".png").name, dpi=120, facecolor="white", transparent=False) plt.close(fig) if __name__ == "__main__": main()