Plotting patches using object-oriented API

Matplotlib offers some special types of plots using patches and collections classes. In this recipe, we will learn how to use patches using the object-oriented API. In the next recipe, we will learn about collections.

Getting ready

We will need to import the following libraries for this recipe:

from IPython.core.display import display
from matplotlib.backends import backend_agg
from matplotlib.patches import Ellipse, Polygon

How to do it...

The following code block plots two patches as separate plots in the same figure:

1. Define...