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pyneuroml.plot package#

pyneuroml.plot.Plot module#

Plotting helper functions.

File: pyneuroml/plot/Plot.py

Copyright 2023 NeuroML contributors

pyneuroml.plot.Plot.generate_interactive_plot(xvalues: List[float], yvalues: List[float], title: str, labels: List[str] | None = None, linestyles: List[str] | None = None, linewidths: List[int] | List[float] | None = None, markers: List[str] | List[int] | None = None, markersizes: List[int] | List[float] | None = None, plot_bgcolor: str | None = None, modes: List[str] | None = None, xaxis: str | None = None, yaxis: str | None = None, legend_title: str | None = None, xaxis_color: str = '#fff', yaxis_color: str = '#fff', xaxis_width: float | int = 1, yaxis_width: float | int = 1, xaxis_mirror: str | bool = False, yaxis_mirror: str | bool = False, xaxis_spikelines: bool = False, yaxis_spikelines: bool = False, grid: bool = True, logx: bool = False, logy: bool = False, layout: dict | None = None, show_interactive: bool = True, save_figure_to: str | None = None) → None#

Utility function to generate interactive plots using Plotly.

This function can be used to generate graphs with multiple plot lines. For example, to plot two metrics you can use:

generate_interactive_plot(xvalues=[[ax1, ax2, ax3], [bx1, bx2, bx3]], yvalues=[[ay1, ay2, ay3], [by1, by2, by3]], labels=["metric 1", "metric 2"])

Please note that while plotting multiple plots, you should take care to ensure that the number of x values and y values for each metric correspond. These lists are passed directly to Plotly for plotting without additional sanity checks.

A number of options are provided for convenience to allow plotting of multiple traces in the same plot and modification of common layout options. A layout dict can also be passed instead, which will overwrite any individually set options. If you need more customisation, please look at the source code of this method to write your own.

See the plotly documentation for more information: https://plotly.com/python-api-reference/generated/plotly.graph_objects.scatter.html

Parameters:
pyneuroml.plot.Plot.generate_plot(xvalues: List[List[float]], yvalues: List[List[float]], title: str, labels: List[str] | None = None, colors: List[str] | None = None, linestyles: List[str] | None = None, linewidths: List[str] | None = None, markers: List[str] | None = None, markersizes: List[str] | None = None, xaxis: str | None = None, yaxis: str | None = None, xlim: List[float] | None = None, ylim: List[float] | None = None, show_xticklabels: bool = True, show_yticklabels: bool = True, grid: bool = False, logx: bool = False, logy: bool = False, font_size: int | None = None, bottom_left_spines_only: bool = False, cols_in_legend_box: int = 3, legend_position: str | None = 'best', show_plot_already: bool = True, save_figure_to: str | None = None, title_above_plot: bool = False, verbose: bool = False, close_plot: bool = False) → Axes | None#

Utility function to generate plots using the Matplotlib library.

This function can be used to generate graphs with multiple plot lines. For example, to plot two metrics you can use:

generate_plot(xvalues=[[ax1, ax2, ax3], [bx1, bx2, bx3]], yvalues=[[ay1, ay2, ay3], [by1, by2, by3]], labels=["metric 1", "metric 2"])

Please note that while plotting multiple plots, you should take care to ensure that the number of x values and y values for each metric correspond. These lists are passed directly to Matplotlib for plotting without additional sanity checks.

Please see the Matplotlib documentation for the complete list of available styles and colours: - https://matplotlib.org/stable/api/_as_gen/matplotlib.pyplot.plot.html - https://matplotlib.org/stable/gallery/index.html

Parameters:

  • xvalues (list of lists) – X values

  • yvalues (lists of lists) – Y values

  • title (str) – title of plot

  • labels (list of strings) – labels for each plot (default: None)

  • colors (list of strings) – colours for each plot (default: None)

  • linestyles (list strings) – list of line styles (default: None)

  • linewidths (list of floats) – list of line widths (default: None)

  • markers (list strings) – list of markers (default: None)

  • markersizes (list of floats) – list of marker sizes (default: None)

  • xaxis (str) – label of X axis (default: None)

  • yaxis (str) – label of Y axis (default: None)

  • xlim (tuple of (float, float) or individual arguments: (left=float), (right=float) See https://matplotlib.org/stable/api/_as_gen/matplotlib.pyplot.xlim.html) – left and right extents of x axis (default: None)

  • ylim (tuple of (float, float) or individual arguments: (top=float), (bottom=float) See https://matplotlib.org/stable/api/_as_gen/matplotlib.pyplot.ylim.html) – top and bottom extents of y axis (default: None)

  • show_xticklabels (boolean) – whether labels should be shown on xtics (default: True)

  • show_yticklabels (boolean) – whether labels should be shown on ytics (default: True)

  • grid (boolean) – enable/disable grid (default: False)

  • logx (boolean) – should the x axis be in log scale (default: False)

  • logy (boolean) – should the y ayis be in log scale (default: False)

  • font_size (float) – font size

  • bottom_left_spines_only (boolean) – enable/disable spines on right and top (default: False) (a spine is the line noting the data area boundary)

  • cols_in_legend_box (float) – number of columns to use in legend box (default: 3)

  • legend_position (str) –

    position of legend: See: https://matplotlib.org/stable/api/_as_gen/matplotlib.axes.Axes.legend.html Extra options:

    • ”outer right” places the legend on the right, but outside the axes box

    • ”bottom center” places the legend on the bottom, below the figure

    Note that if labels is None, a legend is not shown

  • show_plot_already (boolean) – if plot should be shown when created (default: True)

  • save_figure_to (str) – location to save generated figure to (default: None)

  • title_above_plot (boolean) – enable/disable title above the plot (default: False)

  • verbose (boolean) – enable/disable verbose logging (default: False)

  • close_plot (bool) – call pyplot.close() to close plot after plotting

Returns:

matplotlib.axes.Axes object if plot is not closed, else None

pyneuroml.plot.PlotTimeSeries module#

Functions related to plotting of time series

File: pyneuroml/plot/PlotTimeSeries.py

Copyright 2024 NeuroML contributors

pyneuroml.plot.PlotTimeSeries.plot_time_series(trace_data: Dict[Any, Any] | List[Dict[Any, Any]], title: str = '', offset: bool = True, show_plot_already: bool = True, scalebar_location: str | None = None, scalebar_length: float | None = None, labels: bool = False, **kwargs: Any) → None#

Plot time series data from a dictionary of data

Added in version 1.2.2.

See also

pyneuroml.plot.Plot.generate_plot()

general plotting function

Parameters:

  • trace_data (dict or list(dict)) – a dictionary of trace data, or list of such dictionaries The keys are used as labels in the legend. At least one ‘t’ key must exist in each dict, which holds the time axis data.

  • title (str) – plot title, use “” to leave it blank

  • offset (bool) – whether the time series should be offset from each other along the y axis for clarity. This is often useful when plotting voltage traces for a population of cells where overlapping traces would make it hard to see individual values

  • scalebar_location (str or None) – where a scalebar should be placed If None, no scalebar is shown. See the documentation of matplotlib-scalebar for more information: ppinard/matplotlib-scalebar

  • scalebar_length (float) – length of scalebar in units of data (only valid if scalebar_location is not None)

  • labels (bool) – toggle using labels for legends If labels is None, no legend is shown

  • kwargs – other key word arguments that are passed to the pyneuroml.plot.Plot.generate_plot function

Returns:

None

Raises:

ValueError – if a ‘t’ (time) key is not found in the traces data

pyneuroml.plot.PlotTimeSeries.plot_time_series_from_data_files(data_file_names: str | List[str], **kwargs)#

Plot time series from a data file.

The first column must be the time, the other columns are data.

Added in version 1.2.2.

Parameters:

  • data_file_names (str or list of strings) – name/path to data file(s)

  • kwargs – other key word arguments that are passed to the plot_time_series function

pyneuroml.plot.PlotTimeSeries.plot_time_series_from_lems_file(lems_file_name: str, base_dir: str = '.', title: str = '', **kwargs) → None#

Plot time series from a LEMS file.

Wrapper around the plot_time_series function. This reads a LEMS file, loads the data and then passes it to it.

Added in version 1.2.2.

See also

pyneuroml.plot.PlotTimeSeries.plot_time_series()

main plotter function

Parameters:

  • lems_file_name (str) – path to LEMS simulation file

  • base_dir (str) – directory where LEMS file resides

  • **kwargs –

    other arguments passed to plot_time_series

Returns:

None

pyneuroml.plot.PlotSpikes module#

Spike plotting helper functions.

File: pyneuroml/plot/PlotSpikes.py

Copyright 2023 NeuroML contributors

pyneuroml.plot.PlotSpikes.read_sonata_spikes_hdf5_file(file_name: str)#

Read a sonata HDF5 file with spike data

Parameters:

file_name (str) – name of file to read

pyneuroml.plot.PlotSpikes.run(a=None, **kwargs)#

pyneuroml.plot.PlotMorphology module#

Utilities to plot NeuroML2 cell morphologies.

File: pyneuroml/plot/PlotMorphology.py

Copyright 2023 NeuroML contributors

pyneuroml.plot.PlotMorphology.plot_2D(nml_file: str | NeuroMLDocument | Cell, plane2d: str = 'xy', min_width: float = 0.8, verbose: bool = False, nogui: bool = False, save_to_file: str | None = None, square: bool = False, plot_type: str = 'detailed', title: str | None = None, close_plot: bool = False, plot_spec: Dict[str, str | List[int] | float] | None = None, highlight_spec: Dict[Any, Any] | None = None)#

Plot cells in a 2D plane.

If a file with a network containing multiple cells is provided, it will plot all the cells. For detailed neuroml.Cell types, it will plot their complete morphology. For point neurons, we only plot the points (locations) where they are.

This method uses matplotlib.

Added in version 1.1.12: The hightlight_spec parameter

Parameters:

  • nml_file (str or neuroml.NeuroMLDocument or neuroml.Cell) – path to NeuroML cell file, or a NeuroMLDocument object

  • plane2d (str) – what plane to plot (xy/yx/yz/zy/zx/xz)

  • min_width (float) – minimum width for segments (useful for visualising very thin segments): default 0.8um

  • verbose (bool) – show extra information (default: False)

  • nogui (bool) – do not show matplotlib GUI (default: false)

  • save_to_file (str) – optional filename to save generated morphology to

  • square (bool) – scale axes so that image is approximately square

  • plot_type (str) –

    type of plot, one of:

    • ”detailed”: show detailed morphology taking into account each segment’s width

    • ”constant”: show morphology, but use constant line widths

    • ”schematic”: only plot each unbranched segment group as a straight line, not following each segment

    • ”point”: show all cells as points

    This is only applicable for neuroml.Cell cells (ones with some morphology)

  • title (str) – title of plot

  • close_plot (bool) – call pyplot.close() to close plot after plotting

  • plot_spec (dict) –

    dictionary that allows passing some specifications that control how a plot is generated. This is mostly useful for large network plots where one may want to have a mix of full morphology and schematic, and point representations of cells. Possible keys are:

    • point_fraction: what fraction of each population to plot as point cells: these cells will be randomly selected

    • points_cells: list of cell ids to plot as point cells

    • schematic_cells: list of cell ids to plot as schematics

    • constant_cells: list of cell ids to plot as constant widths

    The last three lists override the point_fraction setting. If a cell id is not included in the spec here, it will follow the plot_type provided before.

  • highlight_spec (dict) –

    dictionary that allows passing some specifications to allow highlighting of particular elements. Only used when plotting multi-compartmental cells for marking segments on them (“plot_type” is either “constant” or “detailed”)

    Each key in the dictionary will be of the cell id and the values will be more dictionaries, with the segment id as key and the following keys in it:

    • marker_color: color of the marker

    • marker_size: width of the marker

    E.g.:

    {
    "cell id1": {
        "seg id1": {
            "marker_color": "blue",
            "marker_size": 10
        }
    }
}

pyneuroml.plot.PlotMorphology.plot_2D_cell_morphology(offset: List[float] = [0, 0], cell: Cell | None = None, plane2d: str = 'xy', color: str | None = None, title: str = '', verbose: bool = False, fig: Figure | None = None, ax: Axes | None = None, min_width: float = 0.8, axis_min_max: List = [inf, -inf], scalebar: bool = False, nogui: bool = True, autoscale: bool = True, square: bool = False, plot_type: str = 'detailed', save_to_file: str | None = None, close_plot: bool = False, overlay_data: Dict[int, float] | None = None, overlay_data_label: str | None = None, datamin: float | None = None, datamax: float | None = None, colormap_name: str = 'viridis', highlight_spec: Dict[Any, Any] | None = None)#

Plot the detailed 2D morphology of a cell in provided plane.

The method can also overlay data onto the morphology.

Added in version 1.0.0.

See also

plot_2D()

general function for plotting

plot_2D_schematic()

for plotting only segmeng groups with their labels

plot_2D_point_cells()

for plotting point cells

Parameters:

  • offset ([float, float]) – offset for cell

  • cell (neuroml.Cell) – cell to plot

  • plane2d (str) – plane to plot on

  • color (str) – color to use for all segments

  • fig (matplotlib.figure.Figure) – a matplotlib.figure.Figure object to use

  • ax (matplotlib.axes.Axes) – a matplotlib.axes.Axes object to use

  • min_width (float) – minimum width for segments (useful for visualising very thin segments): default 0.8um

  • axis_min_max ([float, float]) – min, max value of axes

  • title (str) – title of plot

  • verbose (bool) – show extra information (default: False)

  • nogui (bool) – do not show matplotlib GUI (default: false)

  • save_to_file (str) – optional filename to save generated morphology to

  • square (bool) – scale axes so that image is approximately square

  • autoscale (bool) – toggle autoscaling

  • scalebar (bool) – toggle scalebar

  • close_plot (bool) – call pyplot.close() to close plot after plotting

  • overlay_data (dict, keys are segment ids, values are magnitudes to overlay on curtain plots) – data to overlay over the morphology this must be a dictionary with segment ids as keys, the single value to overlay as values

  • overlay_data_label (str) – label of data being overlaid

  • colormap_name (str) – name of matplotlib colourmap to use for data overlay See: https://matplotlib.org/stable/api/matplotlib_configuration_api.html#matplotlib.colormaps Note: random colours are used for each segment if no data is to be overlaid

  • datamin (float) – min limits of data (useful to compare different plots)

  • datamax (float) – max limits of data (useful to compare different plots)

  • highlight_spec (dict) –

    dictionary that allows passing some specifications to allow highlighting of particular elements. Mostly only helpful for marking segments on multi-compartmental cells. In the main dictionary are more dictionaries, one for each segment id (as string or integer) which will be the key:

    • marker_color: color of the marker

    • marker_size: width of the marker

Raises:

ValueError if cell is None

pyneuroml.plot.PlotMorphology.plot_2D_point_cells(offset: List[float] = [0, 0], plane2d: str = 'xy', color: str | None = None, soma_radius: float = 10.0, title: str = '', verbose: bool = False, fig: Figure | None = None, ax: Axes | None = None, axis_min_max: List = [inf, -inf], scalebar: bool = False, nogui: bool = True, autoscale: bool = True, square: bool = False, save_to_file: str | None = None, close_plot: bool = False)#

Plot point cells.

Added in version 1.0.0.

See also

plot_2D()

general function for plotting

plot_2D_schematic()

for plotting only segmeng groups with their labels

plot_2D_cell_morphology()

for plotting cells with detailed morphologies

Parameters:

  • offset ([float, float]) – location of cell

  • plane2d (str) – plane to plot on

  • color (str) – color to use for cell

  • soma_radius (float) – radius of soma

  • fig (matplotlib.figure.Figure) – a matplotlib.figure.Figure object to use

  • ax (matplotlib.axes.Axes) – a matplotlib.axes.Axes object to use

  • axis_min_max ([float, float]) – min, max value of axes

  • title (str) – title of plot

  • verbose (bool) – show extra information (default: False)

  • nogui (bool) – do not show matplotlib GUI (default: false)

  • save_to_file (str) – optional filename to save generated morphology to

  • square (bool) – scale axes so that image is approximately square

  • autoscale (bool) – toggle autoscaling

  • scalebar (bool) – toggle scalebar

  • close_plot (bool) – call pyplot.close() to close plot after plotting

pyneuroml.plot.PlotMorphology.plot_2D_schematic(cell: Cell, segment_groups: List[SegmentGroup] | None, offset: List[float] = [0, 0], labels: bool = False, plane2d: str = 'xy', width: float = 2.0, verbose: bool = False, square: bool = False, nogui: bool = False, save_to_file: str | None = None, scalebar: bool = True, autoscale: bool = True, fig: Figure | None = None, ax: Axes | None = None, title: str = '', close_plot: bool = False) → None#

Plot a 2D schematic of the provided segment groups.

This plots each segment group as a straight line between its first and last segment.

Added in version 1.0.0.

See also

plot_2D()

general function for plotting

plot_2D_point_cells()

for plotting point cells

plot_2D_cell_morphology()

for plotting cells with detailed morphologies

Parameters:

  • offset ([float, float]) – offset for cell

  • cell (neuroml.Cell) – cell to plot

  • segment_groups (list(SegmentGroup)) – list of unbranched segment groups to plot

  • labels (bool) – toggle labelling of segment groups

  • plane2d (str) – what plane to plot (xy/yx/yz/zy/zx/xz)

  • width (float) – width for lines

  • verbose (bool) – show extra information (default: False)

  • square (bool) – scale axes so that image is approximately square

  • nogui (bool) – do not show matplotlib GUI (default: false)

  • save_to_file (str) – optional filename to save generated morphology to

  • fig (matplotlib.figure.Figure) – a matplotlib.figure.Figure object to use

  • ax (matplotlib.axes.Axes) – a matplotlib.axes.Axes object to use

  • title (str) – title of plot

  • square – scale axes so that image is approximately square

  • autoscale (bool) – toggle autoscaling

  • scalebar (bool) – toggle scalebar

  • close_plot (bool) – call pyplot.close() to close plot after plotting

pyneuroml.plot.PlotMorphology.plot_segment_groups_curtain_plots(cell: Cell, segment_groups: List[str], labels: bool = False, verbose: bool = False, nogui: bool = False, save_to_file: str | None = None, overlay_data: Dict[str, List[Any]] | None = None, overlay_data_label: str = '', width: float | int = 4, colormap_name: str = 'viridis', title: str = 'SegmentGroup', datamin: float | None = None, datamax: float | None = None, close_plot: bool = False) → None#

Plot curtain plots of provided segment groups.

Added in version 1.0.0.

Parameters:

  • cell (neuroml.Cell) – cell to plot

  • segment_groups (list(str)) – list of ids of unbranched segment groups to plot

  • labels (bool) – toggle labelling of segment groups

  • verbose (bool) – show extra information (default: False)

  • nogui (bool) – do not show matplotlib GUI (default: false)

  • save_to_file (str) – optional filename to save generated morphology to

  • overlay_data (dict, keys are segment group ids, values are lists of magnitudes to overlay on curtain plots) – data to overlay over the curtain plots; this must be a dictionary with segment group ids as keys, and lists of values to overlay as values. Each list should have a value for every segment in the segment group.

  • overlay_data_label (str) – label of data being overlaid

  • width (float/int) – width of each segment group

  • colormap_name (str) – name of matplotlib colourmap to use for data overlay See: https://matplotlib.org/stable/api/matplotlib_configuration_api.html#matplotlib.colormaps Note: random colours are used for each segment if no data is to be overlaid

  • title (str) – plot title, displayed at bottom

  • datamin (float) – min limits of data (useful to compare different plots)

  • datamax (float) – max limits of data (useful to compare different plots)

  • close_plot (bool) – call pyplot.close() to close plot after plotting

Returns:

None

Raises:

  • ValueError – if keys in overlay_data do not match ids of segment groups of segment_groups

  • ValueError – if number of items for each key in overlay_data does not match the number of segments in the corresponding segment group

pyneuroml.plot.PlotMorphologyVispy module#

Vispy interactive plotting.

Kept in a separate file so that the vispy dependency is not required elsewhere.

File: pyneuroml/plot/PlotMorphologyVispy.py

Copyright 2023 NeuroML contributors

pyneuroml.plot.PlotMorphologyVispy.add_text_to_vispy_3D_plot(current_canvas: SceneCanvas, xv: List[float], yv: List[float], zv: List[float], color: str, text: str)#

Add text to a vispy plot between two points.

Wrapper around vispy.scene.visuals.Text

Rotates the text label to ensure it is at the same angle as the line.

Parameters:

  • scene (scene.SceneCanvas) – vispy scene object

  • xv (list[x1, x2]) – start and end coordinates in one axis

  • yv (list[y1, y2]) – start and end coordinates in second axis

  • zv (list[z1, z2]) – start and end coordinates in third axix

  • color (str) – color of text

  • text (str) – text to write

pyneuroml.plot.PlotMorphologyVispy.create_cylindrical_mesh(rows: int, cols: int, radius: float | List[float] = [1.0, 1.0], length: float = 1.0, closed: bool = True)#

Create a cylinderical mesh, adapted from vispy’s generation method: vispy/vispy

Parameters:

  • rows (int) – number of rows to use for mesh

  • cols (int) – number of columns

  • radius (float or [float, float][]) – float or pair of floats for the two radii of the cylinder

  • length (float) – length of cylinder

  • closed (bool) – whether the cylinder should be closed

Returns:

Vertices and faces computed for a cylindrical surface.

Return type:

MeshData

pyneuroml.plot.PlotMorphologyVispy.create_instanced_meshes(meshdata, plot_type, current_view, min_width)#

Internal function to plot instanced meshes from mesh data.

It is more efficient to collect all the segments that require the same cylindrical mesh and to create instanced meshes for them.

See: https://vispy.org/api/vispy.scene.visuals.html#vispy.scene.visuals.InstancedMesh

Parameters:

  • meshdata – meshdata to plot: dictionary with: key: (r1, r2, length) value: [(prox, dist, color, offset)]

  • plot_type (str) – type of plot

  • current_view (ViewBox) – vispy viewbox to use

  • min_width (float) – minimum width of tubes

pyneuroml.plot.PlotMorphologyVispy.create_new_vispy_canvas(view_min: List[float] | None = None, view_max: List[float] | None = None, title: str = '', axes_pos: List | None = None, axes_length: float = 100, axes_width: int = 2, theme='light')#

Create a new vispy scene canvas with a view and optional axes lines

Reference: https://vispy.org/gallery/scene/axes_plot.html

Parameters:

  • view_min ([float, float, float]) – min view co-ordinates

  • view_max ([float, float, float]) – max view co-ordinates

  • title (str) – title of plot

  • axes_pos ([float, float, float]) – position to draw axes at

  • axes_length (float) – length of axes

  • axes_width (float) – width of axes lines

Returns:

scene, view

pyneuroml.plot.PlotMorphologyVispy.plot_3D_cell_morphology(offset: List[float] = [0, 0, 0], cell: Cell | None = None, color: str | None = None, title: str = '', verbose: bool = False, current_canvas: SceneCanvas | None = None, current_view: ViewBox | None = None, min_width: float = 0.8, axis_min_max: List = [inf, -inf], nogui: bool = True, plot_type: str = 'constant', theme: str = 'light', meshdata: Dict[Any, Any] | None = None, mesh_precision: int = 2, highlight_spec: Dict[Any, Any] | None = None)#

Plot the detailed 3D morphology of a cell using vispy. https://vispy.org/

Added in version 1.0.0.

Added in version 1.1.12: The hightlight_spec parameter

See also

plot_2D()

general function for plotting

plot_2D_schematic()

for plotting only segmeng groups with their labels

plot_2D_point_cells()

for plotting point cells

Parameters:

  • offset ([float, float]) – offset for cell

  • cell (neuroml.Cell) – cell to plot

  • color (str) –

    color to use for segments, with some special values:

    • if a color string is given, use that

    • if None, each segment is given a new unique color

    • if “Groups”, each unbranched segment group is given a unique color, and segments that do not belong to an unbranched segment group are in white

    • if “Default Groups”, axonal segments are in red, dendritic in blue, somatic in green, and others in white

  • min_width (float) – minimum width for segments (useful for visualising very

  • axis_min_max ([float, float]) – min, max value of axes

  • title (str) – title of plot

  • verbose (bool) – show extra information (default: False)

  • nogui (bool) – do not show image immediately

  • current_canvas (scene.SceneCanvas) – vispy scene.SceneCanvas to use (a new one is created if it is not provided)

  • current_view (ViewBox) – vispy viewbox to use

  • plot_type (str) –

    type of plot, one of:

    • ”detailed”: show detailed morphology taking into account each segment’s width. This is not performant, because a new line is required for each segment. To only be used for cells with small numbers of segments

    • ”constant”: show morphology, but use constant line widths

    This is only applicable for neuroml.Cell cells (ones with some morphology)

  • theme (str) – theme to use (dark/light)

  • meshdata (dict) – dictionary used to store mesh related data for vispy visualisation

  • mesh_precision (int) – what decimal places to use to group meshes into instances: more precision means more detail (meshes), means less performance

  • highlight_spec (dict) –

    dictionary that allows passing some specifications to allow highlighting of particular elements. Mostly only helpful for marking segments on multi-compartmental cells. In the main dictionary are more dictionaries, one for each segment id which will be the key:

    • marker_color: color of the marker

    • marker_size: [diameter 1, diameter 2] (in case of sphere, the first value is used)

Raises:

ValueError if cell is None

pyneuroml.plot.PlotMorphologyVispy.plot_3D_schematic(cell: Cell, segment_groups: List[SegmentGroup] | None, offset: List[float] = [0, 0, 0], labels: bool = False, width: float = 5.0, verbose: bool = False, nogui: bool = False, title: str = '', current_canvas: SceneCanvas | None = None, current_view: ViewBox | None = None, theme: str = 'light', color: str | None = 'Cell', meshdata: Dict[Any, Any] | None = None, mesh_precision: int = 2) → None#

Plot a 3D schematic of the provided segment groups using vispy. layer..

This plots each segment group as a straight line between its first and last segment.

Added in version 1.0.0.

See also

plot_2D_schematic()

general function for plotting

plot_2D()

general function for plotting

plot_2D_point_cells()

for plotting point cells

plot_2D_cell_morphology()

for plotting cells with detailed morphologies

Parameters:

  • offset ([float, float, float]) – offset for cell

  • cell (neuroml.Cell) – cell to plot

  • segment_groups (list(SegmentGroup)) – list of unbranched segment groups to plot

  • labels (bool) – toggle labelling of segment groups

  • width (float) – width for lines for segment groups

  • verbose (bool) – show extra information (default: False)

  • title (str) – title of plot

  • nogui (bool) – toggle if plot should be shown or not

  • current_canvas (scene.SceneCanvas) – vispy scene.SceneCanvas to use (a new one is created if it is not provided)

  • current_view (ViewBox) – vispy viewbox to use

  • theme (str) – theme to use (light/dark)

  • color (str) –

    color to use for segment groups with some special values:

    • if None, each unbranched segment group is given a unique color,

    • if “Cell”, each cell is given a unique color

    • if “Default Groups”, each cell is given unique colors for all axons, dendrites, and soma segments

pyneuroml.plot.PlotMorphologyVispy.plot_interactive_3D(nml_file: str | Cell | NeuroMLDocument, min_width: float = 0.8, verbose: bool = False, plot_type: str = 'constant', title: str | None = None, theme: str = 'light', nogui: bool = False, plot_spec: Dict[str, str | List[int] | float] | None = None, highlight_spec: Dict[Any, Any] | None = None, precision: Tuple[int, int] = (4, 200))#

Plot interactive plots in 3D using Vispy

https://vispy.org

Note that on Linux systems using Wayland, one may need to set the environment variable for PyOpenGL to work correctly:

QT_QPA_PLATFORM=wayland-egl

Added in version 1.1.12: The hightlight_spec parameter

Parameters:

  • nml_file (str or neuroml.NeuroMLDocument or neuroml.Cell) – path to NeuroML cell file or neuroml.NeuroMLDocument or neuroml.Cell object

  • min_width (float) – minimum width for segments (useful for visualising very thin segments): default 0.8um

  • verbose (bool) – show extra information (default: False)

  • plot_type (str) –

    type of plot, one of:

    • ”detailed”: show detailed morphology taking into account each segment’s width

    • ”constant”: show morphology, but use constant line widths

    • ”schematic”: only plot each unbranched segment group as a straight line, not following each segment

    • ”point”: show all cells as points

    This is only applicable for neuroml.Cell cells (ones with some morphology)

  • title (str) – title of plot

  • theme (str) – theme to use (light/dark)

  • nogui (bool) – toggle showing gui (for testing only)

  • plot_spec (dict) –

    dictionary that allows passing some specifications that control how a plot is generated. This is mostly useful for large network plots where one may want to have a mix of full morphology and schematic, and point representations of cells. Possible keys are:

    • point_fraction: what fraction of each population to plot as point cells: these cells will be randomly selected

    • points_cells: list of cell ids to plot as point cells

    • schematic_cells: list of cell ids to plot as schematics

    • constant_cells: list of cell ids to plot as constant widths

    The last three lists override the point_fraction setting. If a cell id is not included in the spec here, it will follow the plot_type provided before.

  • highlight_spec (dict) –

    dictionary that allows passing some specifications to allow highlighting of particular elements. Only used when plotting multi-compartmental cells for marking segments on them (“plot_type” is either “constant” or “detailed”)

    Each key in the dictionary will be of the cell id and the values will be more dictionaries, with the segment id as key and the following keys in it:

    • marker_color: color of the marker

    • marker_size: [diameter 1, diameter 2] (in case of sphere, the first value is used)

    E.g.:

    {
    "cell id1": {
        "seg id1": {
            "marker_color": "blue",
            "marker_size": [0.1, 0.1]
        }
    }
}

  • precision ((int, int)) –

    tuple containing two values: (number of decimal places, maximum number of meshes). The first is used to group segments into meshes to create instances. More precision means fewer segments will be grouped into meshes—this may increase detail, but will reduce performance. The second argument is used to limit the total number of meshes. The function will keep reducing precision until the number of meshes is fewer than the value provided here.

    If you have a good GPU, you can increase both these values to get more detailed visualizations

pyneuroml.plot.PlotMorphologyPlotly module#

Methods to plot morphology using Plot.ly

Note: the vispy methods are more performant.

File: pyneuroml/plot/PlotMorphologyPlotly.py

Copyright 2023 NeuroML contributors

pyneuroml.plot.PlotMorphologyPlotly.plot_3D_cell_morphology_plotly(nml_file: str | Cell | NeuroMLDocument, min_width: float = 0.8, verbose: bool = False, nogui: bool = False, save_to_file: str | None = None, plot_type: str = 'detailed')#

Plot NeuroML2 cell morphology interactively using Plot.ly

Please note that the interactive plot uses Plotly, which uses WebGL. So, you need to use a WebGL enabled browser, and performance here may be hardware dependent.

https://plotly.com/python/webgl-vs-svg/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebGL

Parameters:

  • nml_file (str or neuroml.NeuroMLDocument or neuroml.Cell) – path to NeuroML cell file, or a neuroml.NeuroMLDocument or neuroml.Cell object

  • min_width (float) – minimum width for segments (useful for visualising very thin segments): default 0.8um

  • verbose (bool) – show extra information (default: False)

  • nogui (bool) – do not show matplotlib GUI (default: false)

  • save_to_file (str) – optional filename to save generated morphology to

  • plot_type (str) –

    type of plot, one of:

    • detailed: show detailed morphology taking into account each segment’s width

    • constant: show morphology, but use constant line widths

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