pastamarkers

This is the amazing pasta marker project that will allow you to use a lot of the famous italian pasta types.

Installation

The recommended way to install the stable version of pastamarkers is using pip

pip install pastamarkers

Usage

The first thing that we need to do is import the necessary modules:

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from pastamarkers import markers

Then, we can directly pass the markers to matplotlib's functions.

plt.scatter(x, y, marker=markers.tortellini, s=500, linewidth=0.2)

Note: play with size and linewidth parameters for a perfect pasta marker!

Below you can see the supported data types. Please open an Issue if you would like new pasta types to be included!

Examples

See also the \test folder for working examples.

Citation

If you find this code useful in your research, please cite the following paper (ADS, arXiv):

@ARTICLE{2024arXiv240320314P,
       author = {{PASTA Collaboration}},
        title = "{pastamarkers: astrophysical data visualization with pasta-like markers}",
      journal = {arXiv e-prints},
     keywords = {Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics},
         year = 2024,
        month = mar,
          eid = {arXiv:2403.20314},
        pages = {arXiv:2403.20314},
          doi = {10.48550/arXiv.2403.20314},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
       eprint = {2403.20314},
 primaryClass = {astro-ph.IM},
       adsurl = {https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2024arXiv240320314P},
      adsnote = {Provided by the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System}
}

Currently supported pasta types