.. _sphx_glr_gallery_ticks_and_spines_spines_dropped.py:


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Dropped spines
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Demo of spines offset from the axes (a.k.a. "dropped spines").




.. image:: /gallery/ticks_and_spines/images/sphx_glr_spines_dropped_001.png
    :align: center





.. code-block:: python

    import numpy as np
    import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

    # Fixing random state for reproducibility
    np.random.seed(19680801)

    fig, ax = plt.subplots()

    image = np.random.uniform(size=(10, 10))
    ax.imshow(image, cmap=plt.cm.gray, interpolation='nearest')
    ax.set_title('dropped spines')

    # Move left and bottom spines outward by 10 points
    ax.spines['left'].set_position(('outward', 10))
    ax.spines['bottom'].set_position(('outward', 10))
    # Hide the right and top spines
    ax.spines['right'].set_visible(False)
    ax.spines['top'].set_visible(False)
    # Only show ticks on the left and bottom spines
    ax.yaxis.set_ticks_position('left')
    ax.xaxis.set_ticks_position('bottom')

    plt.show()

**Total running time of the script:** ( 0 minutes  0.019 seconds)



.. only :: html

 .. container:: sphx-glr-footer


  .. container:: sphx-glr-download

     :download:`Download Python source code: spines_dropped.py <spines_dropped.py>`



  .. container:: sphx-glr-download

     :download:`Download Jupyter notebook: spines_dropped.ipynb <spines_dropped.ipynb>`


.. only:: html

 .. rst-class:: sphx-glr-signature

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