A typical plot for me includes some simple line curves and a legend
attempting to describe what apparatus that curve belongs to. Often the
labels I give seem clear to me at the time, but even returning a month
later to the plot, I'll be as lost as the next guy.
A few of my colleagues have been plotting curves, and then including a
picture or diagram in place of a typical legend label. The picture or
diagram is bordered by the color of the trace on the plot. I am fairly
certain the plots are done in Matlab. The diagrams are simply dropped into
a powerpoint deck and given a border that is matched as close as possible
to the trace. I did some things like that back in graduate school.
Seems like it would be neat to have a way to do a legend in matplotlib that
does something like this. I'm envisioning a regular axes with lines,
scatter plots, etc. to the left and a column of graphics to the right. I
would think this would be fairly doable using GridSpec or some of the
similar layout. The place I could see getting hung up would be adding a
color border to a picture that matches the trace and also doing the scaling
to make it work all dynamically for different numbers of traces.
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