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Image nonuniform#
This illustrates the NonUniformImage class. It is not available via an Axes method, but it is easily added to an Axes instance as shown here.
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np
from matplotlib import cm
from matplotlib.image import NonUniformImage
interp = 'nearest'
# Linear x array for cell centers:
x = np.linspace(-4, 4, 9)
# Highly nonlinear x array:
x2 = x**3
y = np.linspace(-4, 4, 9)
z = np.sqrt(x[np.newaxis, :]**2 + y[:, np.newaxis]**2)
fig, axs = plt.subplots(nrows=2, ncols=2, layout='constrained')
fig.suptitle('NonUniformImage class', fontsize='large')
ax = axs[0, 0]
im = NonUniformImage(ax, interpolation=interp, extent=(-4, 4, -4, 4),
cmap=cm.Purples)
im.set_data(x, y, z)
ax.add_image(im)
ax.set_xlim(-4, 4)
ax.set_ylim(-4, 4)
ax.set_title(interp)
ax = axs[0, 1]
im = NonUniformImage(ax, interpolation=interp, extent=(-64, 64, -4, 4),
cmap=cm.Purples)
im.set_data(x2, y, z)
ax.add_image(im)
ax.set_xlim(-64, 64)
ax.set_ylim(-4, 4)
ax.set_title(interp)
interp = 'bilinear'
ax = axs[1, 0]
im = NonUniformImage(ax, interpolation=interp, extent=(-4, 4, -4, 4),
cmap=cm.Purples)
im.set_data(x, y, z)
ax.add_image(im)
ax.set_xlim(-4, 4)
ax.set_ylim(-4, 4)
ax.set_title(interp)
ax = axs[1, 1]
im = NonUniformImage(ax, interpolation=interp, extent=(-64, 64, -4, 4),
cmap=cm.Purples)
im.set_data(x2, y, z)
ax.add_image(im)
ax.set_xlim(-64, 64)
ax.set_ylim(-4, 4)
ax.set_title(interp)
plt.show()