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.. _sphx_glr_plot_types_arrays_pcolormesh.py:


===================
pcolormesh(X, Y, Z)
===================

`~.axes.Axes.pcolormesh` is more flexible than `~.axes.Axes.imshow` in that
the x and y vectors need not be equally spaced (indeed they can be skewed).

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.. image-sg:: /plot_types/arrays/images/sphx_glr_pcolormesh_001.png
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.. code-block:: Python

    import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
    import numpy as np

    plt.style.use('_mpl-gallery-nogrid')

    # make data with uneven sampling in x
    x = [-3, -2, -1.6, -1.2, -.8, -.5, -.2, .1, .3, .5, .8, 1.1, 1.5, 1.9, 2.3, 3]
    X, Y = np.meshgrid(x, np.linspace(-3, 3, 128))
    Z = (1 - X/2 + X**5 + Y**3) * np.exp(-X**2 - Y**2)

    # plot
    fig, ax = plt.subplots()

    ax.pcolormesh(X, Y, Z, vmin=-0.5, vmax=1.0)

    plt.show()


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