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Version Check¶

Note: Ternary Plots are available in version 1.9.10+
Run pip install plotly --upgrade to update your Plotly version

Basic Ternary Contour Plot¶

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import plotly.plotly as py

import json
import urllib

url = 'https://gist.githubusercontent.com/davenquinn/988167471993bc2ece29/raw/f38d9cb3dd86e315e237fde5d65e185c39c931c2/data.json'
response = urllib.urlopen(url).read()
data = json.loads(response)

colors = ['#8dd3c7','#ffffb3','#bebada',
          '#fb8072','#80b1d3','#fdb462',
          '#b3de69','#fccde5','#d9d9d9',
          '#bc80bd','#ccebc5','#ffed6f'];

# generate a,b and c from JSON data..
traces = []
color_iter = iter(colors)
for i in data.keys():
    trace = dict(text=i,
        type='scatterternary',
        a=[ k['clay'] for k in data[i] ],
        b=[ k['sand'] for k in data[i] ],
        c=[ k['silt'] for k in data[i] ],
        mode='lines',
        line=dict(color='#444'),
        fill='toself',
        fillcolor=color_iter.next()
    )
    traces.append(trace)
    
layout = {
    'title': 'Simple Ternary Contour Plot with Python',
    'ternary': 
        {'sum':100,
         'aaxis':{'title': 'clay', 'ticksuffix':'%', 'min': 0.01, 'linewidth':2, 'ticks':'outside' },
         'baxis':{'title': 'sand', 'ticksuffix':'%', 'min': 0.01, 'linewidth':2, 'ticks':'outside' },
         'caxis':{'title': 'silt','ticksuffix':'%', 'min': 0.01, 'linewidth':2, 'ticks':'outside' }},
    'showlegend': False          
}

figure = dict(data=traces, layout=layout)
py.iplot(figure, validate=False)

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from IPython.display import display, HTML

display(HTML('<link href="//fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans:600,400,300,200|Inconsolata|Ubuntu+Mono:400,700" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />'))
display(HTML('<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://help.plot.ly/documentation/all_static/css/ipython-notebook-custom.css">'))

#! pip install git+https://github.com/plotly/publisher.git --upgrade
import publisher
publisher.publish(
    'ternary-contour.ipynb', 'python/ternary-contour/', 'Python Ternary Contour Plots | plotly',
    'How to make Ternary Contour Plots in Python with Plotly.',
    name = 'Ternary Contour Plots',
    thumbnail='thumbnail/ternary-contour.jpg', language='python',
    has_thumbnail='true', display_as='scientific', order=10,
    ipynb= '~notebook_demo/40')

/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/IPython/nbconvert.py:13: ShimWarning: The `IPython.nbconvert` package has been deprecated since IPython 4.0. You should import from nbconvert instead.
  "You should import from nbconvert instead.", ShimWarning)
/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/publisher/publisher.py:53: UserWarning: Did you "Save" this notebook before running this command? Remember to save, always save.
  warnings.warn('Did you "Save" this notebook before running this command? '

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