René's URL Explorer Experiment

{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Overview of Axes creation methods","articleBody":"We should have an overview (possibly in the tutorials) which methods create Axes and when to use which.\r\n\r\nThis could contain the flow-chart blow plus additional descriptions.\r\n\r\n- I've not taken into account `subgridspec` and `axes_grid1`.\r\n- Am I missing some methods?\r\n- the diagram could be embedded using `.. graphviz`. However, while it renders with http://graphviz.it/ it currently does not with sphinx (issueing some errors).\r\n- The styling could still be improved (add links, font/color, use a HTML node instead of a record, ...)\r\n\r\n![grafik](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/2836374/81488076-76753880-9264-11ea-88f8-fc6313d23d17.png)\r\n\r\n~~~\r\ndigraph {\r\n    node[shape=diamond]\r\n        q_fullsize; q_simple_grid; q_complex_grid; q_inset; q_twin;\r\n    node[shape=record]\r\n        full_size;\r\n       \r\n    q_fullsize [label=\"full size?\"]\r\n    full_size [label=\"{plt.subplot()|plt.subplots()} | {Figure.add_subplot()|Figure.subplots()}\"]\r\n    q_simple_grid [label=\"simple grid?\"]\r\n    simple_grid [label=\"{plt.subplot(n, m, k) | plt.subplots(n, m)}| {Figure.add_subplot(n, m, k) | Figure.subplots(n, m)}\"]\r\n    q_complex_grid [label=\"complex grid?\"]\r\n    complex_grid [label=\"{plt.subplot2grid() | plt.subplot(subplotspec) | plt.subplots(gridspec_kw) | } | { | Figure.subplot(subplotspec) | Figure.subplots(gridspec_kw) | GridSpec.subplots()}\"]\r\n    q_inset [label=\"inset?\"]\r\n    inset [label=\"Axes.inset_axes()\"]\r\n    q_twin [label=\"twin?\"]\r\n    twin [label=\"{plt.twinx() | plt.twiny()} | {Axes.twinx() | Axes.twiny()}\"]\r\n    axes [label=\"{plt.axes() | Figure.add_axes()}\"]\r\n\r\n    q_fullsize -\u003e q_simple_grid [ label = \"No\" ];\r\n    q_simple_grid -\u003e q_complex_grid [label = \"No\" ];\r\n    q_fullsize -\u003e full_size [ label = \"Yes\" ];\r\n    q_simple_grid -\u003e simple_grid[ label = \"Yes\" ];\r\n    q_complex_grid -\u003e complex_grid [label = \"Yes\"];\r\n    q_complex_grid -\u003e q_inset [label = \"No\"];\r\n    q_inset -\u003e inset[label=\"Yes\"];\r\n    q_inset -\u003e q_twin [label=\"No\"]\r\n    q_twin -\u003e twin[label=\"Yes\"]\r\n    q_twin -\u003e axes[label=\"No\"]\r\n\r\n    {\r\n        rank=same;\r\n        q_fullsize full_size\r\n    }\r\n    {\r\n        rank=same;\r\n        q_simple_grid simple_grid\r\n    }\r\n    {\r\n        rank=same;\r\n        q_complex_grid complex_grid\r\n    }\r\n    {\r\n        rank=same;\r\n        q_inset inset\r\n    }\r\n    {\r\n        rank=same;\r\n        q_twin twin\r\n    }\r\n}\r\n~~~","author":{"url":"https://github.com/timhoffm","@type":"Person","name":"timhoffm"},"datePublished":"2020-05-10T00:19:51.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":7},"url":"https://github.com/17376/matplotlib/issues/17376"}