McUtils.Plots

A plotting framework that builds off of matplotlib, but potentially could use a different backend. The design is intended to mirror the Graphics framework in Mathematica and where possible option names have been chosen to be the same. Difficulties with matplotlib prevent a perfect mirror but the design is consistent. There are a few primary divisions:

1. Graphics/Graphics3D/GraphicsGrid provide basic access to matplotlib.figure and matplotlib.axes they also hold a GraphicsPropertyManager/GraphicsPropertyManager3D that manages all properties (image_size, axes_label, ticks_style, etc.). The full lists can be found on the relevant reference pages and are bound as properties on the Graphics/Graphics3D instances.
2. Plot/Plot3D and everything in the Plots subpackage provide concrete instances of common plots with nice names/consistent with Mathematica for discoverability but primarily fall back onto matplotlib built-in methods and then allow for restyling/data reuse, etc.
3. Primitives provide direct access to the shapes that are actually plotted on screen (i.e. matplotlib.Patch objects) in a convenient way to add on to existing plots
4. Styling provides access to theme management/construction

Image/animation support and other back end support for 3D graphics (VTK) are provided at the experimental level.

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