How to crop or zoom into a plot area

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Hello,
I have a polar plot, and I want to zoom into one section of it, How can I do that.

using Plots
x = [0,pi/6,pi/4,pi/3,pi/2] # theta
y = [0,0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4]  # r
p = plot(x,y,axis=false,legend=false,proj =:polar)

let say I want to zoom in a section with r limit [0.1,0.3] and theta limit =[pi/6, pi/2].
How can I do that?
I saw the lens function, but it seems that it only works with cartesian plots.

Thank you for your help.

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Maybe not what you’re looking for, but the PlotlyJS backend has very nice interactive zooming and panning.

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If you want interactive zooming and panning, try using the Plotly backend by calling the function plotly() before you create your plot.

4

I need something more like a croping tool, which can crop a section of a plot.
I am making a gif so interactive zooming isn’t helpful to me.

5

Use xlim and ylim to specify boundaries for the plot area. You’ll get a rectangular area and you’ll need to do your own polar to rectangular conversion first.

Edit: an example of use is here: Home · Plots

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