Tag Archives: MatPlotlib

Evaluate and display definite integrals in Excel with Latex and Matplotlib

Posted on 09/08/2025 by dougaj4

The py_Evalu spreadsheet was last presented at Scipy Functions with Excel and pyxll 5 – Evaluate with Units and included the Plot_Math function, which converts a text string to Latex format, then uses Matplotlib to convert this to a graphic image, … Continue reading →

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Plotting Carlyle’s Circle with Matplotlib in Excel

Posted on 25/07/2025 by dougaj4

Recently I happened to read of Carlyle’s Circle, which is a circle that has two intersection points with a parabola on the X axis. See the Wikipedia article for more details: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlyle_circle This post looks at the options for plotting … Continue reading →

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3DFrame-py rel. 0.50

Posted on 14/07/2025 by dougaj4

Following the recent post on the Python lru_cache function (Python functools and the Fibonacci Sequence) I have had a look at using lru_cache in the 3DFrame-py spreadsheet. So far using lru_cache in this code has provided little to no speed improvement, … Continue reading →

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Scipy Functions with Excel and pyxll 9 – Special, distance, space and constants functions and FFT

Posted on 08/01/2024 by dougaj4

In the final post in this series I will look at linking Excel to the Scipy special, distance, space and constants functions and also the Fast-Fourier Transform (FFT) functions. The py_Special-Dist and py_FFT spreadsheet, with associated Python code in PythonSpaceFuncs3.py … Continue reading →

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3D plots with the latest Matplotlib

Posted on 30/09/2022 by dougaj4

Installing Python on a new computer, I found I had to downgrade Matplotlib to release 3.5.2 to get my 3D plotting functions to work. Further investigation found that the problem was the Axes3D function. Changing:     ax = axes3d.Axes3D(fig)to: … Continue reading →

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