Take the 2-minute tour ×  I am trying to draw something similar:
enter image description here  The main idea is to draw ellipses
with different color in some specific range, for example from
[-6, 6].  I have understood that plt.contour function can be
used. But I do not understand how to generate lines.
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down vote accepted  I personally wouldn't do this with contour
as you then need to add information about the elevation which I
don't think you want?  matplotlib has Ellipse which is a
subclass of Artist. The following example adds a single ellipse
to a plot.  import matplotlib as mpl ellipse =
mpl.patches.Ellipse(xy=(0, 0), width=2.0, height=1.0) fig, ax =
plt.subplots()  ax.set_xlim(-2, 2) ax.set_ylim(-2, 2)  enter
image description here  You then need to research how to get the
effect you are looking for, I would have a read of the docs in
general making things transparent is done through alpha.
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