""" ============== Scatter Masked ============== Mask some data points and add a line demarking masked regions. """ import matplotlib.pyplot as plt import numpy as np # Fixing random state for reproducibility np.random.seed(19680801) N = 100 r0 = 0.6 x = 0.9 * np.random.rand(N) y = 0.9 * np.random.rand(N) area = (20 * np.random.rand(N))**2 # 0 to 10 point radii c = np.sqrt(area) r = np.sqrt(x ** 2 + y ** 2) area1 = np.ma.masked_where(r < r0, area) area2 = np.ma.masked_where(r >= r0, area) plt.scatter(x, y, s=area1, marker='^', c=c) plt.scatter(x, y, s=area2, marker='o', c=c) # Show the boundary between the regions: theta = np.arange(0, np.pi / 2, 0.01) plt.plot(r0 * np.cos(theta), r0 * np.sin(theta)) plt.show()