.. _axes_grid-demo_colorbar_with_inset_locator: axes_grid example code: demo_colorbar_with_inset_locator.py =========================================================== .. plot:: /home/mdboom/Work/builds/matplotlib/doc/mpl_examples/axes_grid/demo_colorbar_with_inset_locator.py :: import matplotlib.pyplot as plt from mpl_toolkits.axes_grid1.inset_locator import inset_axes fig = plt.figure(1, [6, 3]) # first subplot ax1 = fig.add_subplot(121) axins1 = inset_axes(ax1, width="50%", # width = 10% of parent_bbox width height="5%", # height : 50% loc=1) im1=ax1.imshow([[1,2],[2, 3]]) plt.colorbar(im1, cax=axins1, orientation="horizontal", ticks=[1,2,3]) axins1.xaxis.set_ticks_position("bottom") # first subplot ax = fig.add_subplot(122) axins = inset_axes(ax, width="5%", # width = 10% of parent_bbox width height="50%", # height : 50% loc=3, bbox_to_anchor=(1.05, 0., 1, 1), bbox_transform=ax.transAxes, borderpad=0, ) # Controlling the placement of the inset axes is basically same as that # of the legend. you may want to play with the borderpad value and # the bbox_to_anchor coordinate. im=ax.imshow([[1,2],[2, 3]]) plt.colorbar(im, cax=axins, ticks=[1,2,3]) plt.draw() plt.show() Keywords: python, matplotlib, pylab, example, codex (see :ref:`how-to-search-examples`)