the legend of the phases present in a map or grains, one patch per phase in its colour, a not indexed phase only when it was given a colour of its own

Syntax

leg = phaseLegend(mP, ebsd)

The phases of a map in the upper right.

leg = phaseLegend(mP, grains, loc='lower left')

Elsewhere.

Description

A map coloured by phase draws this itself with legend=True. A patch is labelled by the mineral of its phase.

Input

mP mapPlot, the map plot the legend goes into
x EBSD or grain2d, whose phases are shown

Keywords

keyword default description
loc 'upper right' the place of the legend, as matplotlib’s legend takes it

Output

leg the matplotlib Legend

See also

keyLegend, plotEBSD, plotGrains

source

Citing this page. This page is part of the documentation of MTEX, a free and open source MATLAB toolbox for analyzing and modeling crystallographic textures. It was written by The MTEX Developers and is published at https://mtex-toolbox.github.io/phaseLegend_py.html. If you use MTEX, or reuse text or figures from this page, in your research, please cite

F. Bachmann, R. Hielscher, H. Schaeben: Texture Analysis with MTEX - Free and Open Source Software Toolbox, Solid State Phenomena 160 (2010), 63-68. 10.4028/www.scientific.net/SSP.160.63

BibTeX
@article{bachmann2010mtex,
  author  = {F. Bachmann and R. Hielscher and H. Schaeben},
  title   = {Texture Analysis with MTEX - Free and Open Source Software Toolbox},
  journal = {Solid State Phenomena},
  volume  = {160},
  pages   = {63-68},
  year    = {2010},
  doi     = {10.4028/www.scientific.net/SSP.160.63},
  url     = {https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/SSP.160.63}
}

Other papers describing specific MTEX methods are listed under Publications — please cite the one that best fits your application. The MTEX source code is licensed under the GNU General Public License v2.0; the text and figures of this documentation are licensed under CC BY 4.0, which permits reuse — including by automated systems — provided The MTEX Developers and this page are credited.