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  • Lines, bars and markers
    • Bar color demo
    • Bar Label Demo
    • Stacked bar chart
    • Grouped bar chart with labels
    • Horizontal bar chart
    • Broken Barh
    • CapStyle
    • Plotting categorical variables
    • Plotting the coherence of two signals
    • Cross spectral density (CSD)
    • Curve with error band
    • Errorbar limit selection
    • Errorbar subsampling
    • EventCollection Demo
    • Eventplot demo
    • Filled polygon
    • Fill Between and Alpha
    • Filling the area between lines
    • Fill Betweenx Demo
    • Hatch-filled histograms
    • Bar chart with gradients
    • Hat graph
    • Discrete distribution as horizontal bar chart
    • JoinStyle
    • Customizing dashed line styles
    • Lines with a ticked patheffect
    • Linestyles
    • Marker reference
    • Markevery Demo
    • Plotting masked and NaN values
    • Multicolored lines
    • Mapping marker properties to multivariate data
    • Power spectral density (PSD)
    • Scatter Demo2
    • Scatter plot with histograms
    • Scatter Masked
    • Marker examples
    • Scatter plots with a legend
    • Simple Plot
    • Shade regions defined by a logical mask using fill_between
    • Spectrum representations
    • Stackplots and streamgraphs
    • Stairs Demo
    • Stem Plot
    • Step Demo
    • Creating a timeline with lines, dates, and text
    • hlines and vlines
    • Cross- and auto-correlation
  • Images, contours and fields
    • Affine transform of an image
    • Wind Barbs
    • Barcode
    • Interactive Adjustment of Colormap Range
    • Colormap normalizations
    • Colormap normalizations SymLogNorm
    • Contour Corner Mask
    • Contour Demo
    • Contour Image
    • Contour Label Demo
    • Contourf demo
    • Contourf Hatching
    • Contourf and log color scale
    • Contouring the solution space of optimizations
    • BboxImage Demo
    • Figimage Demo
    • Creating annotated heatmaps
    • Image antialiasing
    • Clipping images with patches
    • Many ways to plot images
    • Image Masked
    • Image nonuniform
    • Blend transparency with color in 2D images
    • Modifying the coordinate formatter
    • Interpolations for imshow
    • Contour plot of irregularly spaced data
    • Layer Images
    • Visualize matrices with matshow
    • Multiple images
    • pcolor images
    • pcolormesh grids and shading
    • pcolormesh
    • Streamplot
    • QuadMesh Demo
    • Advanced quiver and quiverkey functions
    • Quiver Simple Demo
    • Shading example
    • Spectrogram
    • Spy Demos
    • Tricontour Demo
    • Tricontour Smooth Delaunay
    • Tricontour Smooth User
    • Trigradient Demo
    • Triinterp Demo
    • Tripcolor Demo
    • Triplot Demo
    • Watermark image
  • Subplots, axes and figures
    • Aligning Labels
    • Programmatically controlling subplot adjustment
    • Axes box aspect
    • Axes Demo
    • Controlling view limits using margins and sticky_edges
    • Axes Props
    • Axes Zoom Effect
    • axhspan Demo
    • Equal axis aspect ratio
    • Axis Label Position
    • Broken Axis
    • Custom Figure subclasses
    • Resizing axes with constrained layout
    • Resizing axes with tight layout
    • Different scales on the same axes
    • Figure size in different units
    • Figure labels: suptitle, supxlabel, supylabel
    • Creating adjacent subplots
    • Geographic Projections
    • Combining two subplots using subplots and GridSpec
    • Using Gridspec to make multi-column/row subplot layouts
    • Nested Gridspecs
    • Invert Axes
    • Managing multiple figures in pyplot
    • Secondary Axis
    • Sharing axis limits and views
    • Shared axis
    • Figure subfigures
    • Multiple subplots
    • Subplots spacings and margins
    • Creating multiple subplots using plt.subplots
    • Plots with different scales
    • Zoom region inset axes
  • Statistics
    • Percentiles as horizontal bar chart
    • Artist customization in box plots
    • Box plots with custom fill colors
    • Boxplots
    • Box plot vs. violin plot comparison
    • Boxplot drawer function
    • Plot a confidence ellipse of a two-dimensional dataset
    • Violin plot customization
    • Errorbar function
    • Different ways of specifying error bars
    • Including upper and lower limits in error bars
    • Creating boxes from error bars using PatchCollection
    • Hexagonal binned plot
    • Histograms
    • Plotting cumulative distributions
    • Some features of the histogram (hist) function
    • Demo of the histogram function's different histtype settings
    • The histogram (hist) function with multiple data sets
    • Producing multiple histograms side by side
    • Time Series Histogram
    • Violin plot basics
  • Pie and polar charts
    • Pie charts
    • Bar of pie
    • Nested pie charts
    • Labeling a pie and a donut
    • Bar chart on polar axis
    • Polar plot
    • Error bar rendering on polar axis
    • Polar legend
    • Scatter plot on polar axis
  • Text, labels and annotations
    • Accented text
    • Align y-labels
    • Scale invariant angle label
    • Angle annotations on bracket arrows
    • Annotate Transform
    • Annotating a plot
    • Annotating Plots
    • Annotation Polar
    • Arrow Demo
    • Auto-wrapping text
    • Composing Custom Legends
    • Date tick labels
    • AnnotationBbox demo
    • Using a text as a Path
    • Text Rotation Mode
    • The difference between \dfrac and \frac
    • Labeling ticks using engineering notation
    • Annotation arrow style reference
    • Styling text boxes
    • Figure legend demo
    • Configuring the font family
    • Using ttf font files
    • Font table
    • Fonts demo (object-oriented style)
    • Fonts demo (keyword arguments)
    • Labelling subplots
    • Legend using pre-defined labels
    • Legend Demo
    • Artist within an artist
    • Convert texts to images
    • Mathtext
    • Mathtext Examples
    • Math fontfamily
    • Multiline
    • Placing text boxes
    • Concatenating text objects with different properties
    • STIX Fonts
    • Rendering math equations using TeX
    • Text alignment
    • Text Commands
    • Controlling style of text and labels using a dictionary
    • Text Rotation Relative To Line
    • Title positioning
    • Unicode minus
    • Usetex Baseline Test
    • Usetex Fonteffects
    • Text watermark
  • Color
    • Color Demo
    • Color by y-value
    • Colors in the default property cycle
    • Colorbar
    • Colormap reference
    • Creating a colormap from a list of colors
    • List of named colors
    • Ways to set a color's alpha value
  • Shapes and collections
    • Arrow guide
    • Reference for Matplotlib artists
    • Line, Poly and RegularPoly Collection with autoscaling
    • Compound path
    • Dolphins
    • Mmh Donuts!!!
    • Ellipse with orientation arrow demo
    • Ellipse Collection
    • Ellipse Demo
    • Drawing fancy boxes
    • Hatch demo
    • Hatch style reference
    • Plotting multiple lines with a LineCollection
    • Circles, Wedges and Polygons
    • PathPatch object
    • Bezier Curve
    • Scatter plot
  • Style sheets
    • Bayesian Methods for Hackers style sheet
    • Dark background style sheet
    • FiveThirtyEight style sheet
    • ggplot style sheet
    • Grayscale style sheet
    • Solarized Light stylesheet
    • Style sheets reference
  • Module - pyplot
    • Infinite lines
    • Simple plot
    • Text and mathtext using pyplot
    • Multiple lines using pyplot
    • Two subplots using pyplot
  • Module - axes_grid1
    • Anchored Direction Arrow
    • Axes divider
    • Demo Axes Grid
    • Axes Grid2
    • HBoxDivider and VBoxDivider demo
    • Showing RGB channels using RGBAxes
    • Adding a colorbar to inset axes
    • Colorbar with AxesDivider
    • Controlling the position and size of colorbars with Inset Axes
    • Per-row or per-column colorbars
    • Axes with a fixed physical size
    • Setting a fixed aspect on ImageGrid cells
    • Inset locator demo
    • Inset locator demo 2
    • Make room for ylabel using axes_grid
    • Parasite Simple
    • Parasite Simple2
    • Scatter Histogram (Locatable Axes)
    • Simple Anchored Artists
    • Simple Axes Divider 1
    • Simple axes divider 3
    • Simple ImageGrid
    • Simple ImageGrid 2
    • Simple Axisline4
    • Simple Colorbar
  • Module - axisartist
    • Axis Direction
    • axis_direction demo
    • Axis line styles
    • Curvilinear grid demo
    • Demo CurveLinear Grid2
    • floating_axes features
    • floating_axis demo
    • Parasite Axes demo
    • Parasite axis demo
    • Ticklabel alignment
    • Ticklabel direction
    • Simple axis direction
    • Simple axis tick label and tick directions
    • Simple Axis Pad
    • Custom spines with axisartist
    • Simple Axisline
    • Simple Axisline3
  • Showcase
    • Anatomy of a figure
    • Firefox
    • Integral as the area under a curve
    • Shaded & power normalized rendering
    • Stock prices over 32 years
    • XKCD
  • Animation
    • Decay
    • Animated histogram
    • pyplot animation
    • The Bayes update
    • The double pendulum problem
    • Animated image using a precomputed list of images
    • Frame grabbing
    • Multiple axes animation
    • Pausing and Resuming an Animation
    • Rain simulation
    • Animated 3D random walk
    • Animated line plot
    • Animated scatter saved as GIF
    • Oscilloscope
    • MATPLOTLIB UNCHAINED
  • Event handling
    • Close Event
    • Mouse move and click events
    • Cross-hair cursor
    • Data browser
    • Figure/Axes enter and leave events
    • Interactive functions
    • Scroll event
    • Keypress event
    • Lasso Demo
    • Legend picking
    • Looking Glass
    • Path editor
    • Pick event demo
    • Pick event demo 2
    • Poly Editor
    • Pong
    • Resampling Data
    • Timers
    • Trifinder Event Demo
    • Viewlims
    • Zoom Window
  • Miscellaneous
    • Anchored Artists
    • Changing colors of lines intersecting a box
    • Manual Contour
    • Coords Report
    • Custom projection
    • Customize Rc
    • AGG filter
    • Ribbon Box
    • Adding lines to figures
    • Fill Spiral
    • Findobj Demo
    • Font indexing
    • Font properties
    • Building histograms using Rectangles and PolyCollections
    • Hyperlinks
    • Image Thumbnail
    • Plotting with keywords
    • Matplotlib logo
    • Multipage PDF
    • Multiprocessing
    • Packed-bubble chart
    • Patheffect Demo
    • Print Stdout
    • Rasterization for vector graphics
    • Set and get properties
    • SVG Filter Line
    • SVG filter pie
    • Table Demo
    • TickedStroke patheffect
    • transforms.offset_copy
    • Zorder Demo
  • 3D plotting
    • Plot 2D data on 3D plot
    • Demo of 3D bar charts
    • Create 2D bar graphs in different planes
    • 3D box surface plot
    • Plot contour (level) curves in 3D
    • Plot contour (level) curves in 3D using the extend3d option
    • Project contour profiles onto a graph
    • Filled contours
    • Project filled contour onto a graph
    • Custom hillshading in a 3D surface plot
    • 3D errorbars
    • Create 3D histogram of 2D data
    • Parametric curve
    • Lorenz attractor
    • 2D and 3D axes in same figure
    • Automatic text offsetting
    • Draw flat objects in 3D plot
    • Generate polygons to fill under 3D line graph
    • 3D plot projection types
    • 3D quiver plot
    • Rotating a 3D plot
    • 3D scatterplot
    • 3D stem
    • 3D plots as subplots
    • 3D surface (colormap)
    • 3D surface (solid color)
    • 3D surface (checkerboard)
    • 3D surface with polar coordinates
    • Text annotations in 3D
    • Triangular 3D contour plot
    • Triangular 3D filled contour plot
    • Triangular 3D surfaces
    • More triangular 3D surfaces
    • Primary 3D view planes
    • 3D voxel / volumetric plot
    • 3D voxel plot of the NumPy logo
    • 3D voxel / volumetric plot with RGB colors
    • 3D voxel / volumetric plot with cylindrical coordinates
    • 3D wireframe plot
    • Animate a 3D wireframe plot
    • 3D wireframe plots in one direction
  • Scales
    • Asinh Demo
    • Loglog Aspect
    • Custom scale
    • Log Bar
    • Log Demo
    • Logit Demo
    • Exploring normalizations
    • Scales
    • Log Axis
    • Symlog Demo
  • Specialty plots
    • Hillshading
    • Anscombe's quartet
    • Hinton diagrams
    • Ishikawa Diagram
    • Left ventricle bullseye
    • MRI with EEG
    • Radar chart (aka spider or star chart)
    • The Sankey class
    • Long chain of connections using Sankey
    • Rankine power cycle
    • SkewT-logP diagram: using transforms and custom projections
    • Topographic hillshading
  • Spines
    • Spines
    • Spine placement
    • Dropped spines
    • Multiple y-axis with Spines
    • Centered spines with arrows
  • Ticks
    • Automatically setting tick positions
    • Centering labels between ticks
    • Colorbar Tick Labelling
    • Custom Ticker
    • Formatting date ticks using ConciseDateFormatter
    • Date Demo Convert
    • Placing date ticks using recurrence rules
    • Date tick locators and formatters
    • Custom tick formatter for time series
    • Date Precision and Epochs
    • Dollar ticks
    • Fig Axes Customize Simple
    • Major and minor ticks
    • The default tick formatter
    • Tick formatters
    • Tick locators
    • Set default y-axis tick labels on the right
    • Setting tick labels from a list of values
    • Move x-axis tick labels to the top
    • Rotating custom tick labels
    • Fixing too many ticks
  • Units
    • Annotation with units
    • Artist tests
    • Bar demo with units
    • Group barchart with units
    • Basic Units
    • Ellipse with units
    • Evans test
    • Radian ticks
    • Inches and Centimeters
    • Unit handling
  • Embedding Matplotlib in graphical user interfaces
    • CanvasAgg demo
    • Embedding in GTK3 with a navigation toolbar
    • Embedding in GTK3
    • Embedding in GTK4 with a navigation toolbar
    • Embedding in GTK4
    • Embedding in Qt
    • Embedding in Tk
    • Embedding in wx #2
    • Embedding in wx #3
    • Embedding in wx #4
    • Embedding in wx #5
    • Embedding WebAgg
    • Fourier Demo WX
    • GTK3 spreadsheet
    • GTK4 spreadsheet
    • Display mathtext in WX
    • Matplotlib with Glade 3
    • mplcvd -- an example of figure hook
    • pyplot with GTK3
    • pyplot with GTK4
    • SVG Histogram
    • SVG Tooltip
    • Tool Manager
    • Embedding in a web application server (Flask)
    • Adding a cursor in WX
  • Widgets
    • Annotated cursor
    • Buttons
    • Check buttons
    • Cursor
    • Lasso Selector
    • Menu
    • Mouse Cursor
    • Multicursor
    • Select indices from a collection using polygon selector
    • Polygon Selector
    • Radio Buttons
    • Thresholding an Image with RangeSlider
    • Rectangle and ellipse selectors
    • Slider
    • Snapping Sliders to Discrete Values
    • Span Selector
    • Textbox
  • Userdemo
    • Annotate Explain
    • Annotate Text Arrow
    • Connection styles for annotations
    • Custom box styles
    • subplot2grid demo
    • GridSpec demo
    • Nested GridSpecs
    • PGF fonts
    • PGF preamble
    • PGF texsystem
    • Simple Annotate01
    • Simple Legend01
    • Simple Legend02
  • Examples
  • Showcase

Showcase#

Anatomy of a figure

Anatomy of a figure

Firefox

Firefox

Integral as the area under a curve

Integral as the area under a curve

Shaded & power normalized rendering

Shaded & power normalized rendering

Stock prices over 32 years

Stock prices over 32 years

XKCD

XKCD

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