http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/api/artist_api.html?highlight=fancyarrowpatch#matplotlib.patches.FancyArrowPatch

try to set shrinkA and shrinkB to 0.

Also see below for how arrows are drawn.

http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/users/annotations_guide.html#annotating-with-arrow

-JJ


On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 9:46 AM, Thomas Robitaille
<thomas.robitai...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to plot two perpendicular arrows and getting them to start from
> the exact same point. If I try the following:
>
> ---
>
> import matplotlib
> matplotlib.use('Agg')
> import matplotlib.pyplot as mpl
> from matplotlib.patches import FancyArrowPatch
>
> fig = mpl.figure()
> ax = fig.add_subplot(111)
>
> arrow1 = FancyArrowPatch(posA=(0.5, 0.5), posB=(0.6, 0.5), \
>                arrowstyle='-|>', mutation_scale=20.)
>
> arrow2 = FancyArrowPatch(posA=(0.5, 0.5), posB=(0.5, 0.6), \
>                arrowstyle='-|>', mutation_scale=20.)
>
> ax.add_patch(arrow1)
> ax.add_patch(arrow2)
>
> fig.savefig('fancyarrow.png')
>
> ---
>
> then the result are two perpendicular arrows but the arrows don't touch at
> their origin (see attached image). Is there a way to fix this?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Tom
>
>
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