[Python] drawing a cool fish
Cool fish plot in Python
Let’s bring a bit of art into our coding, shall we?
I randomly came across this plot and also a bunch of other ones (find them here), and then decided to draw this cool fish in Python!
Here you will find the codes:
# Youtube.com/@codedabacus
# Fish plot
# libraries
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np
# initialize storages for the x- and y coordinates of the endpoints
X, Y = [], []
# total lines
lines = 1000
# compute the endpoints
for i in range(1, lines+1):
x1 = -2 * np.cos((4 * np.pi * i) / lines)
y1 = 0.5 * np.cos((6 * np.pi * i) / lines)
x2 = (-2/15) * np.sin((6 * np.pi * i) / lines)
y2 = (4/5) * np.sin((2 * np.pi * i) / lines)
# update the containers
X.extend([x1, x2, None])
Y.extend([y1, y2, None])
# plot the line segments
fig = plt.figure(figsize = (10, 6))
plt.plot(X, Y, linewidth = 0.1, color = 'black')
fig.patch.set_facecolor('lightblue')
plt.axis('off')
plt.savefig('fish.png')
plt.show()
Also here you can find the step by step walkthrough for drawing this plot in Python: