Petal Diagram

Also, it might be interesting to compare one solution with another. Here, a visual a single solution regarding its trade-offs.

Let us visualize some test data:

[1]:

import numpy as np

np.random.seed(1234)
F = np.random.random((1, 6))
print(F)

[[0.19151945 0.62210877 0.43772774 0.78535858 0.77997581 0.27259261]]

A simple petal plot can be created by:

[2]:

from pymoo.visualization.petal import Petal

Petal(bounds=[0, 1]).add(F).show()

[2]:

<pymoo.visualization.petal.Petal at 0x7f42fca64fd0>
../_images/visualization_petal_5_1.png

If you prefer to visualize smaller values with a larger area, set reverse=True:

[3]:

Petal(bounds=[0, 1], reverse=True).add(F).show()

[3]:

<pymoo.visualization.petal.Petal at 0x7f42eb3f51c0>
../_images/visualization_petal_7_1.png 
[4]:

plot = Petal(bounds=[0, 1],
             cmap="tab20",
             labels=["profit", "cost", "sustainability", "environment", "satisfaction", "time"],
             title=("Solution A", {'pad': 20}))
plot.add(F)
plot.show()

[4]:

<pymoo.visualization.petal.Petal at 0x7f42eb7b0520>
../_images/visualization_petal_8_1.png

Each add will plot solutions in a row. Each entry represents a column. Easily, different solutions can be compared.

[5]:

F = np.random.random((6, 6))
plot = Petal(bounds=[0, 1], title=["Solution %s" % t for t in ["A", "B", "C", "D", "E", "F"]])
plot.add(F[:3])
plot.add(F[3:])
plot.show()

[5]:

<pymoo.visualization.petal.Petal at 0x7f42eb721310>
../_images/visualization_petal_10_1.png

API

class pymoo.visualization.petal.Petal(self, bounds=None, **kwargs)

Petal Diagram

Parameters
boundstuple

The boundaries for each objective. Necessary to be provided for this plot!

axis_styledict

Most of the plots consists of an axis. The style of the axis, e.g. color, alpha, …, can be changed to further modify the plot appealing.

reversebool

Default false. Otherwise, larger area means smaller value.

Other Parameters
figsizetuple

The figure size. Default (figsize=(8, 6)). For some plots changing the size might have side-effects for position.

titlestr or tuple

The title of the figure. If some additional kwargs should be provided this can be achieved by providing a tuple (“name”, {“key” : val}).

legendstr

Whether a legend should be shown or not.

tight_layoutbool

Whether tight layout should be used.

cmapcolormap

For some plots different kind of colors are used. The colormap can be changed to modify the color sequence for the plots.