Welcome to examplecurves’s documentation!

examplecurves is a module outsourced from arithmeticmeancurves. Its main purpose is to provide exemplary, reproducible families of curves for testing and debugging purposes.

An E of 3 lines.

Installation

$ pip install examplecurves

Basic Usage

Using examplecurves.create() is the default way to get example curves. The necessary argument is the family_name of the family of curves, which are listed in the api-reference of this documentation.

import examplecurves
requested_curves = examplecurves.Static.create("nonlinear0")
examplecurves.plot_curves(requested_curves)

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It is possible to make a selection of the returned curves by the curves indexes. By curve_selection a list of indexes defines the curves to be returned only.

import examplecurves
requested_curves = examplecurves.Static.create("nonlinear0", curve_selection=[0,2,4])
examplecurves.plot_curves(requested_curves)

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Cutting of curves is also possible by either defining the index (integer position within a sequence) or list of maximum 3 entries defining a slice. [None, -3] would lead to slicing the curves like curve[:-3]. The default behavior of providing an integer only is equivalent to `curve[:i].

import examplecurves
requested_curves = examplecurves.Static.create(
   family_name="nonlinear0",
   cut_curves_at=3,
   curve_selection=[0,2,4]
)
examplecurves.plot_curves(requested_curves)

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The requested curves can be offset by an iterable of custom offsets.

import examplecurves
requested_curves = examplecurves.Static.create(
   family_name="nonlinear0",
   cut_curves_at=3,
   offsets=[(1, 2), (3, 4), (5, 6)],
   curve_selection=[0,2,4]
)
examplecurves.plot_curves(requested_curves)

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The examplecurves might come with predefined offsets, which can be invoked by predefined_offset defining the index of the offset. predefined_offset overrules offsets.

import examplecurves
requested_curves = examplecurves.Static.create(
   family_name="nonlinear0",
   cut_curves_at=3,
   offsets=[(1, 2), (3, 4), (5, 6)],
   predefined_offset=1,
   curve_selection=[0,2,4]
)
examplecurves.plot_curves(requested_curves)

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Indices and tables