Learning Python: How to draw a scatter plot using plotly

In my earlier plot How to use FOR loop, I used a look to generate camera positions for a Panda3D view. In this post, I will show how to use plotly to visualize your data. To visualize camera positions generated by the FOR loop, I just need to show points at locations for all the angular steps generated. A good way to show these camera position is use scatter plot. In scatter plot, you will provide x & y coordinates of points that you want to show. Following code sample shows how to use plotly to draw Scatter plot.

from plotly import express as px
from math import pi,sin,cos

class CameraPosition:
    def __init__(self, x, y, z=0):
        self.x = x
        self.y = y
        self.z = z

radius = 20.0
angle_step = 6.0
camera_positions = []
for step in range(1,60):
    angle_degrees = step * angle_step
    angle_radians = angle_degrees * (pi / 180.0)
    x_new = radius * sin(angle_radians)
    y_new = radius * cos(angle_radians)
    camera_positions.append(CameraPosition(x_new,y_new))

chart = px.scatter(x=[pos.x for pos in camera_positions],
                    y=[pos.y for pos in camera_positions], width=800, height=800)
chart.update_layout(title="Camera Positions")
chart.show()

The fist line of the code imports express module from plotly package. To install plotly package, run the following command on your machine.

In subsequent posts, I will show to draw other types of visualizations depending on type of data and purpose of visualization.