General Plotting Routines plotting.genplots

3D Animated Plots

The key plot generated by GalaRP for aesthetic purposes is a 3D, interactive figure that leverages k3d. To generate this plot, use the following line:

grp.k3d_plot([orbits], outname="3D_plot.html", duration=120)

Warning this has a tendancy to crash Jupyter notebooks if the OrbitContainer has a large number of particles, but it usually will still successfully return the html object.

Showing distributions in 3D

To plot the distribution of particles at different points of the simulation, and also check GalaRP’s ability to measure the disk size, you can use the pyplot_3D_plot.

grp.pyplot_3D_plot(orbits, nrows=2, ncols=2, tmin=450, tmax=800, cmap="rainbow", rmax=35)

This will show the distribution of particles, color-coded by vertical velocity, at different snapshots. The snapshots shown can be controlled with nrows, ncols, tmin, and tmax.