Matplotlib quiver plotting with constant arrow size

Question

I\'m trying to plot a simple quiver plot (e.g. as in the matplotlib gallery: http://matplotlib.org/examples/pylab_examples/quiver_demo.html), although I don\'t want the auto

Answer 1

Changing scale won't work for this. You need to normalize the vectors, e.g.

X, Y = np.meshgrid(np.arange(0, 2 * np.pi, .2), np.arange(0, 2 * np.pi, .2))
U = np.cos(X)
V = np.sin(Y)

# Normalize the arrows:
U = U / np.sqrt(U**2 + V**2);
V = V / np.sqrt(U**2 + V**2);


plt.figure()
plt.title('Normalized arrows')
Q = plt.quiver(X, Y, U, V, units='width')
qk = plt.quiverkey(Q, 0.9, 0.9, 2, r'$2 \frac{m}{s}$', labelpos='E',
                   coordinates='figure')