{ "cells": [ { "cell_type": "markdown", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "# First steps" ] }, { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": null, "metadata": {}, "outputs": [], "source": [ "import sisl\n", "\n", "# We define the root directory where our files are\n", "siesta_files = (\n", " sisl._environ.get_environ_variable(\"SISL_FILES_TESTS\") / \"sisl\" / \"io\" / \"siesta\"\n", ")" ] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "## Your first plots\n", "\n", "The most straightforward way to plot things in sisl is to call their `plot` method. For example if we have the path to a bands file we can call plot:" ] }, { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": null, "metadata": {}, "outputs": [], "source": [ "sisl.get_sile(siesta_files / \"SrTiO3.bands\").plot()" ] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "You can pass arguments to the plotting function:" ] }, { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": null, "metadata": { "nbsphinx-thumbnail": { "tooltip": "A variety of introduction plots to see what can be done" }, "tags": [ "nbsphinx-thumbnail" ] }, "outputs": [], "source": [ "rho_file = sisl.get_sile(siesta_files / \"SrTiO3.RHO\")\n", "rho_file.plot(axes=\"xy\", nsc=[2, 1, 1], smooth=True).show(\"png\")" ] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "Some objects can be plotted in different ways, and just calling `plot` will do it in the default way. You can however **choose which plot you want** from the available representations. For example, out of a PDOS file you can plot the PDOS (the default):" ] }, { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": null, "metadata": {}, "outputs": [], "source": [ "pdos_file = sisl.get_sile(siesta_files / \"SrTiO3.PDOS\")\n", "\n", "pdos_file.plot(groups=[{\"species\": \"O\", \"name\": \"O\"}, {\"species\": \"Ti\", \"name\": \"Ti\"}])" ] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "or the geometry (not the default, you need to specify it):" ] }, { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": null, "metadata": {}, "outputs": [], "source": [ "pdos_file.plot.geometry(atoms_scale=0.7)" ] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "Updating your plots\n", "----------------\n", "\n", "When you call `.plot()`, you receive a `Plot` object:" ] }, { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": null, "metadata": {}, "outputs": [], "source": [ "pdos_plot = pdos_file.plot()\n", "type(pdos_plot)" ] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "`Plot` objects are a kind of `Workflow`. You can check the `sisl.nodes` documentation to understand what exactly this means. But long story short, this means that the computation is split in multiple nodes, as you can see in the following diagram:\n" ] }, { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": null, "metadata": {}, "outputs": [], "source": [ "pdos_plot.network.visualize(notebook=True)" ] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "With that knowledge, when you update the inputs of a plot, only the necessary parts are recalculated. In that way, you may avoid repeating expensive calculations or reading to files that no longer exist. Inputs are updated with `update_inputs`:" ] }, { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": null, "metadata": {}, "outputs": [], "source": [ "pdos_plot.update_inputs(Erange=[-3, 3])" ] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "Some inputs are a bit cumbersome to write by hand, and therefore along your journey you'll find that plots have some helper methods to modify inputs much faster. For example, `PdosPlot` has the `split_DOS` method, which generates groups of orbitals for you." ] }, { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": null, "metadata": {}, "outputs": [], "source": [ "pdos_plot.split_DOS()" ] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "
\n", " \n", "Don't worry!\n", " \n", "Each plot class has its own dedicated notebook in the documentation to guide you through all the knobs that they have!\n", " \n", "
\n", "\n" ] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "## Different plotting backends\n", "\n", "Hidden between all the inputs, you can find a **very special input**: `backend`.\n", "\n", "This input allows you to choose the plotting backend used to display a plot. If you don't like the default one, just change it!" ] }, { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": null, "metadata": {}, "outputs": [], "source": [ "pdos_plot.update_inputs(backend=\"matplotlib\")" ] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "Let's go back to the default one, `plotly`." ] }, { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": null, "metadata": {}, "outputs": [], "source": [ "pdos_plot.update_inputs(backend=\"plotly\")" ] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "## Further customization\n", "\n", "If you are a master of some backend, you'll be happy to know that you can run any backend specific method on the plot. For example, plotly has a method called `add_vline` that draws a vertical line:" ] }, { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": null, "metadata": {}, "outputs": [], "source": [ "pdos_plot.add_vline(-1).add_vline(2)" ] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "In fact, if you need the raw figure for something, you can find it under the `figure` attribute." ] }, { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": null, "metadata": {}, "outputs": [], "source": [ "type(pdos_plot.figure)" ] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "metadata": { "editable": true, "slideshow": { "slide_type": "" }, "tags": [] }, "source": [ "## Discover more\n", "\n", "This notebook has shown you the most basic features of the framework with the hope that you will be hooked into it :)\n", "\n", "If it succeeded, we invite you to check the rest of the documentation. **It only gets better from here!**" ] } ], "metadata": { "kernelspec": { "display_name": "Python 3 (ipykernel)", "language": "python", "name": "python3" }, "language_info": { "codemirror_mode": { "name": "ipython", "version": 3 }, "file_extension": ".py", "mimetype": "text/x-python", "name": "python", "nbconvert_exporter": "python", "pygments_lexer": "ipython3", "version": "3.11.7" } }, "nbformat": 4, "nbformat_minor": 4 }