# Plotting dynamical systems trajectories

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/plotting-dynamical-systems-trajectories/46166>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Tags:** plotting, diffeq\
**Created:** [September 6, 2020, 11:38pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/plotting-dynamical-systems-trajectories/46166 "2020-09-06T23:38:32Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![zagorskij](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/zagorskij/32/17742_2.png) [@zagorskij](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/zagorskij)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2020, 11:38pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/plotting-dynamical-systems-trajectories/46166/1 "2020-09-06T23:38:32Z")

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Hi,  
I think everybody here saw the trajecotires of a dynamical system plotted as shown on the picture

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/1/5/15811afb338cc422c93d33c0cedfe5e47fa90bee.jpeg), with those pretty arrows. I have stumbled across some solutions overlapping to the trajectories the vector field, but it’s not something closer. Is there a neater solution to come closer to those plots shown here?

Regards,

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**Author:** ![chakravala](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/chakravala/32/6832_2.png) [@chakravala](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/chakravala)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2020, 12:07am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/plotting-dynamical-systems-trajectories/46166/2 "2020-09-07T00:07:14Z")

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Tried [Makie.jl](https://github.com/JuliaPlots/Makie.jl) streamplot?

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**Author:** ![zagorskij](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/zagorskij/32/17742_2.png) [@zagorskij](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/zagorskij)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2020, 9:14am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/plotting-dynamical-systems-trajectories/46166/3 "2020-09-07T09:14:43Z")

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@chakravala thanks for the hint. I didn’t try on Makie but from my experience in matplotlib (it should be similar in Makie), you have no control on how the lines appear, the goal of streamplot is to show the flow, not a single trajectories with arrows on top of it.

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**Author:** ![chakravala](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/chakravala/32/6832_2.png) [@chakravala](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/chakravala)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2020, 9:35am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/plotting-dynamical-systems-trajectories/46166/4 "2020-09-07T09:35:39Z")

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If it doesn’t satisfy you, I’m sure you could hack something together with the same API but with your own customized trajectories.

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**Author:** ![zagorskij](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/zagorskij/32/17742_2.png) [@zagorskij](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/zagorskij)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2020, 9:45am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/plotting-dynamical-systems-trajectories/46166/5 "2020-09-07T09:45:57Z")

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yes i will take a look at the code to hack something and then share, i think it could be useful.