Matplotlib Polar Plot With Large Number Of Points Gets Distorted

I want to plot a large number of data points on a polar scatter plot. I know how my data looks like from a cartesian plot, and I quickly noticed it got distorted on the polar plot.

Solution 1:

Increase the dpi parameter - the default is 100. Also consider increasing the figsize. The ripple effect is a display glitch, so this should fix things.

fig, ax = plt.subplots(subplot_kw=dict(projection='polar'),figsize=(10,10), dpi=200)

Check out the docs for this here.