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.. only:: html

    .. note::
        :class: sphx-glr-download-link-note

        :ref:`Go to the end <sphx_glr_download_gallery_axis_and_tick_21.tick-locators.py>`
        to download the full example code

.. rst-class:: sphx-glr-example-title

.. _sphx_glr_gallery_axis_and_tick_21.tick-locators.py:


=============
Tick locators
=============

`Tick locators can be given both for major and minor ticks in the same way as
Matplotlib <https://matplotlib.org/stable/gallery/ticks/tick-locators.html>`__.
Gridlines for minor ticks can be also plotted.

.. GENERATED FROM PYTHON SOURCE LINES 10-38



.. image-sg:: /gallery/axis_and_tick/images/sphx_glr_21.tick-locators_001.svg
   :alt: 21.tick locators
   :srcset: /gallery/axis_and_tick/images/sphx_glr_21.tick-locators_001.svg
   :class: sphx-glr-single-img





.. code-block:: Python

    import numpy as np
    import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
    from matplotlib.ticker import MultipleLocator, AutoMinorLocator
    import mpltern

    ax = plt.subplot(projection="ternary")

    np.random.seed(19680801)
    t, l, r = np.random.dirichlet(alpha=(2.0, 4.0, 8.0), size=128).T

    ax.scatter(t, l, r, s=64.0, c="C1", edgecolors="k", alpha=0.6)

    ax.set_tlabel("$x_1$")
    ax.set_llabel("$x_2$")
    ax.set_rlabel("$x_3$")

    ax.taxis.set_major_locator(MultipleLocator(0.25))
    ax.laxis.set_major_locator(MultipleLocator(0.20))
    ax.raxis.set_major_locator(MultipleLocator(0.10))

    ax.laxis.set_minor_locator(MultipleLocator(0.1))
    ax.raxis.set_minor_locator(AutoMinorLocator(5))

    ax.grid(axis='t')
    ax.grid(axis='l', which='minor', linestyle='--')
    ax.grid(axis='r', which='both', linestyle=':')

    plt.show()


.. rst-class:: sphx-glr-timing

   **Total running time of the script:** (0 minutes 1.696 seconds)


.. _sphx_glr_download_gallery_axis_and_tick_21.tick-locators.py:

.. only:: html

  .. container:: sphx-glr-footer sphx-glr-footer-example

    .. container:: sphx-glr-download sphx-glr-download-jupyter

      :download:`Download Jupyter notebook: 21.tick-locators.ipynb <21.tick-locators.ipynb>`

    .. container:: sphx-glr-download sphx-glr-download-python

      :download:`Download Python source code: 21.tick-locators.py <21.tick-locators.py>`


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 .. rst-class:: sphx-glr-signature

    `Gallery generated by Sphinx-Gallery <https://sphinx-gallery.github.io>`_