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Waterfall Plots



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General Plot Help





To create a waterfall plot, right-click on a workspace and select Plot > Spectrum.... Then set the Plot Type to Waterfall before choosing which spectra to plot and selecting OK.



Plot Toolbar

Plot Toolbar Waterfall


From the waterfall toolbar, access the Offset and Fill Area menus:

Waterfall Toolbar Menus


Click Menus

Click Menus Waterfall


O ptions Menu

Waterfall plots are very similar to 1D plots of multiple spectra. They are simply offset, as controlled from the Waterfall Toolbar menus above.

Plot Options Axes Legend
TIP: Change a Legend entry by editing Set curve label on the Curves tab. Then on the Legend tab there are Color and Font options.


Plot Options Curves


Scripting

An example script for a Waterfall Plot:

# import mantid algorithms and matplotlib
from mantid.simpleapi import *
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

from mantid.api import AnalysisDataService as ADS

# Load data and choose 1st ws from group
data = Load('MUSR00015189')
data_ws = ADS.retrieve('data_1')

# Get figure and axes with mantid projection
fig, ax = plt.subplots(subplot_kw={'projection': 'mantid'})

# Define colors and labels for desired spectra
colors = ('red', 'green', 'darksalmon', 'navy', '#AB0EA2')
labels = ('MUSR15189_1 Sp1','MUSR15189_1 Sp2', 'MUSR15189_1 Sp3', 'MUSR15189_1 Sp4', 'MUSR15189_1 Sp5')

# Plot 5 spectra in a loop
for i in range(5):
    ax.plot(data_ws, color=colors[i], label=labels[i], specNum=(i+1), linewidth = 4)

# Add title and tidy the x-axis range
plt.title('Waterfall MUSR00015189_1 Spec1-5')
ax.set_xlim(-2,35)

'''---- Convert from 1D plot to Waterfall plot ----'''
# Can set the x/y offset and choose to fill under the curves
ax.set_waterfall(True, x_offset=50, fill=True)

# Separately turn on the area fill, and choose one color for all
ax.set_waterfall_fill(True, colour="#00d1ff")

# Update the offsets
ax.update_waterfall(x_offset=10, y_offset=30)

fig.show()

(Source code, png, hires.png, pdf)

../_images/WaterfallPlotsHelp-1.png

For more advice: Formatting Plots with a script



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