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Plot horizontally in jupyter notebooks. source: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21754976/
# source: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21754976/
import numpy as np
from IPython.display import HTML
import io
import base64
class FlowLayout(object):
''' A class / object to display plots in a horizontal / flow layout below a cell '''
def __init__(self):
# string buffer for the HTML: initially some CSS; images to be appended
self.sHtml = """
<style>
.floating-box {
display: inline-block;
margin: 10px;
border: 3px solid #888888;
}
</style>
"""
def add_plot(self, oAxes):
''' Saves a PNG representation of a Matplotlib Axes object '''
Bio=io.BytesIO() # bytes buffer for the plot
fig = oAxes.get_figure()
fig.canvas.print_png(Bio) # make a png of the plot in the buffer
# encode the bytes as string using base 64
sB64Img = base64.b64encode(Bio.getvalue()).decode()
self.sHtml+= (
'<div class="floating-box">'+
'<img src="data:image/png;base64,{}\n">'.format(sB64Img)+
'</div>')
def PassHtmlToCell(self):
''' Final step - display the accumulated HTML '''
display(HTML(self.sHtml))
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