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Intro; Table of Contents; About the Author; About the Technical Reviewer; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Essential Python Commands and Functions; 1.1 Programming Style; 1.2 The Plotting Area; 1.3 Establishing the Size of the Plotting Area; 1.4 Importing Plotting Commands; 1.5 Displaying the Plotting Area; 1.6 The Plotting Grid; 1.7 Saving a Plot; 1.8 Grid Color; 1.9 Tick Marks; 1.10 Custom Grid Lines; 1.11 Labelling the Axes; 1.12 The Plot Title; 1.13 Colors; 1.13.1 Color Mixing; 1.13.2 Color Intensity; 1.14 Overplotting; 1.15 Background Color; 1.16 The Plotting Area Shape
1.17 How to Correct Shape Distortions1.17.1 Applying a Scale Factor When Plotting; 1.17.2 The Best Way: Scaling the Axes in plt.axis(); 1.18 Coordinate Axes; 1.19 Commonly Used Plotting Commands and Functions; 1.19.1 Points and Dots Using scatter(); 1.19.2 Lines Using plot(); 1.19.3 Arrows; 1.19.4 Text; 1.19.5 Lists, Tuples, and Arrays; 1.19.6 Arrays; 1.19.7 arange( ); 1.19.8 range( ); 1.20 Summary; Chapter 2: Graphics in Two Dimensions; 2.1 Lines from Dots; 2.2 Dot Art; 2.3 Circular Arcs from Dots; 2.4 Circular Arcs from Line Segments; 2.5 Circles; 2.6 Dot Discs; 2.7 Ellipses
2.8 2D Translation2.9 2D Rotation; 2.10 Summary; Chapter 3: Graphics in Three Dimensions; 3.1 The Three-Dimensional Coordinate System; 3.2 Projections onto the Coordinate Planes; 3.3 Rotation Around the y Direction; 3.4 Rotation Around the x Direction; 3.5 Rotation Around the z Direction; 3.6 Separate Rotations Around the Coordinate Directions; 3.7 Sequential Rotations Around the Coordinate Directions; 3.8 Matrix Concatenation; 3.9 Keyboard Data Entry with Functional Program Structure; 3.10 Summary; Chapter 4: Perspective; 4.1 Summary; Chapter 5: Intersections
5.1 Line Intersecting a Rectangular Plane5.2 Line Intersecting a Triangular Plane; 5.3 Line Intersecting a Circle; 5.4 Line Intersecting a Circular Sector; 5.5 Line Intersecting a Sphere; 5.6 Plane Intersecting a Sphere; 5.7 Summary; Chapter 6: Hidden Line Removal; 6.1 Box; 6.2 Pyramid; 6.3 Planes; 6.4 Sphere; 6.5 Summary; Chapter 7: Shading; 7.1 Shading a Box; 7.2 Shading a Sphere; 7.3 Summary; Chapter 8: 2D Data Plotting; 8.1 Linear Regression; 8.2 Function Fitting; 8.3 Splines; 8.4 Summary; Chapter 9: 3D Data Plotting; 9.1 3D Surfaces; 9.2 3D Surface Shading; 9.3 Summary
Chapter 10: Demonstrations10.1 Saturn; 10.2 Solar Radiation; 10.2.1 Photons and the Sun; 10.2.2 Max Planck's Black Body Radiation; 10.2.3 The Sun's Total Power Output; 10.3 Earth's Irradiance; 10.3.1 The Earth Sun Model; 10.4 Summary; Appendix A: Where to Get Python; Appendix B: Planck's Radiation Law and the Stefan-Boltzmann Equation; Index
1.17 How to Correct Shape Distortions1.17.1 Applying a Scale Factor When Plotting; 1.17.2 The Best Way: Scaling the Axes in plt.axis(); 1.18 Coordinate Axes; 1.19 Commonly Used Plotting Commands and Functions; 1.19.1 Points and Dots Using scatter(); 1.19.2 Lines Using plot(); 1.19.3 Arrows; 1.19.4 Text; 1.19.5 Lists, Tuples, and Arrays; 1.19.6 Arrays; 1.19.7 arange( ); 1.19.8 range( ); 1.20 Summary; Chapter 2: Graphics in Two Dimensions; 2.1 Lines from Dots; 2.2 Dot Art; 2.3 Circular Arcs from Dots; 2.4 Circular Arcs from Line Segments; 2.5 Circles; 2.6 Dot Discs; 2.7 Ellipses
2.8 2D Translation2.9 2D Rotation; 2.10 Summary; Chapter 3: Graphics in Three Dimensions; 3.1 The Three-Dimensional Coordinate System; 3.2 Projections onto the Coordinate Planes; 3.3 Rotation Around the y Direction; 3.4 Rotation Around the x Direction; 3.5 Rotation Around the z Direction; 3.6 Separate Rotations Around the Coordinate Directions; 3.7 Sequential Rotations Around the Coordinate Directions; 3.8 Matrix Concatenation; 3.9 Keyboard Data Entry with Functional Program Structure; 3.10 Summary; Chapter 4: Perspective; 4.1 Summary; Chapter 5: Intersections
5.1 Line Intersecting a Rectangular Plane5.2 Line Intersecting a Triangular Plane; 5.3 Line Intersecting a Circle; 5.4 Line Intersecting a Circular Sector; 5.5 Line Intersecting a Sphere; 5.6 Plane Intersecting a Sphere; 5.7 Summary; Chapter 6: Hidden Line Removal; 6.1 Box; 6.2 Pyramid; 6.3 Planes; 6.4 Sphere; 6.5 Summary; Chapter 7: Shading; 7.1 Shading a Box; 7.2 Shading a Sphere; 7.3 Summary; Chapter 8: 2D Data Plotting; 8.1 Linear Regression; 8.2 Function Fitting; 8.3 Splines; 8.4 Summary; Chapter 9: 3D Data Plotting; 9.1 3D Surfaces; 9.2 3D Surface Shading; 9.3 Summary
Chapter 10: Demonstrations10.1 Saturn; 10.2 Solar Radiation; 10.2.1 Photons and the Sun; 10.2.2 Max Planck's Black Body Radiation; 10.2.3 The Sun's Total Power Output; 10.3 Earth's Irradiance; 10.3.1 The Earth Sun Model; 10.4 Summary; Appendix A: Where to Get Python; Appendix B: Planck's Radiation Law and the Stefan-Boltzmann Equation; Index