How to tell is a plotted point is within a circle matplotlib

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I have a circle plotted on a graph using matplotlib

angle = np.linspace(0, 4 * np.pi, 150)

radius = 0.2

x = radius * np.cos(angle) + 0.5
y = radius * np.sin(angle) + 0.5

fig, ax = plt.subplots() 
ax.set_aspect(1)
ax.plot(x, y)

I also have some code that randomly plots scatter points on the graph:

q = [random.uniform(0.3, 0.7) for n in range(900)]
b = [random.uniform(0.3, 0.7) for n in range(900)]

ax.scatter(q, b, color='black', marker='.', s=1)

I want to count how many of the randomly plotted points fall within the circle. Is there a way I can do this?

Asked By: Joolpool

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Answer 1

To do this you have to find the points that have a distance between them and the center of the circle inferior to the radius. The center of the circle is (0.5, 0.5).

To do this you can do the following:

import numpy as np

q, b = np.array(q), np.array(b)

# The mask is a boolean array that tells if a point is inside 
# of the circle or outside of the circle.
mask = np.sqrt((q-0.5)**2 + (b-0.5)**2) <= radius

#np.count_nonzero counts the number of True elements in an array.
number_inside = np.count_nonzero(mask)

number_inside is the number of points inside the circle.

Answered By: Romain Simon

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