matplotlib.axes.Axes.spy#

Axes.spy(Z, precision=0, marker=None, markersize=None, aspect='equal', origin='upper', **kwargs)[source]#

Plot the sparsity pattern of a 2D array.

This visualizes the non-zero values of the array.

Two plotting styles are available: image and marker. Both are available for full arrays, but only the marker style works for scipy.sparse.spmatrix instances.

Image style

If marker and markersize are None, imshow is used. Any extra remaining keyword arguments are passed to this method.

Marker style

If Z is a scipy.sparse.spmatrix or marker or markersize are None, a Line2D object will be returned with the value of marker determining the marker type, and any remaining keyword arguments passed to plot.

Parameters:
Z(M, N) array-like

The array to be plotted.

precisionfloat or 'present', default: 0

If precision is 0, any non-zero value will be plotted. Otherwise, values of \(|Z| > precision\) will be plotted.

For scipy.sparse.spmatrix instances, you can also pass 'present'. In this case any value present in the array will be plotted, even if it is identically zero.

aspect{'equal', 'auto', None} or float, default: 'equal'

The aspect ratio of the Axes. This parameter is particularly relevant for images since it determines whether data pixels are square.

This parameter is a shortcut for explicitly calling Axes.set_aspect. See there for further details.

  • 'equal': Ensures an aspect ratio of 1. Pixels will be square.

  • 'auto': The Axes is kept fixed and the aspect is adjusted so that the data fit in the Axes. In general, this will result in non-square pixels.

  • None: Use rcParams["image.aspect"] (default: 'equal').

origin{'upper', 'lower'}, default: rcParams["image.origin"] (default: 'upper')

Place the [0, 0] index of the array in the upper left or lower left corner of the Axes. The convention 'upper' is typically used for matrices and images.

Returns:
AxesImage or Line2D

The return type depends on the plotting style (see above).

Other Parameters:
**kwargs

The supported additional parameters depend on the plotting style.

For the image style, you can pass the following additional parameters of imshow:

For the marker style, you can pass any Line2D property except for linestyle:

Property

Description

agg_filter

a filter function, which takes a (m, n, 3) float array and a dpi value, and returns a (m, n, 3) array and two offsets from the bottom left corner of the image

alpha

scalar or None

animated

bool

antialiased or aa

bool

clip_box

BboxBase or None

clip_on

bool

clip_path

Patch or (Path, Transform) or None

color or c

color

dash_capstyle

CapStyle or {'butt', 'projecting', 'round'}

dash_joinstyle

JoinStyle or {'miter', 'round', 'bevel'}

dashes

sequence of floats (on/off ink in points) or (None, None)

data

(2, N) array or two 1D arrays

drawstyle or ds

{'default', 'steps', 'steps-pre', 'steps-mid', 'steps-post'}, default: 'default'

figure

Figure

fillstyle

{'full', 'left', 'right', 'bottom', 'top', 'none'}

gapcolor

color or None

gid

str

in_layout

bool

label

object

linestyle or ls

{'-', '--', '-.', ':', '', (offset, on-off-seq), ...}

linewidth or lw

float

marker

marker style string, Path or MarkerStyle

markeredgecolor or mec

color

markeredgewidth or mew

float

markerfacecolor or mfc

color

markerfacecoloralt or mfcalt

color

markersize or ms

float

markevery

None or int or (int, int) or slice or list[int] or float or (float, float) or list[bool]

mouseover

bool

path_effects

list of AbstractPathEffect

picker

float or callable[[Artist, Event], tuple[bool, dict]]

pickradius

float

rasterized

bool

sketch_params

(scale: float, length: float, randomness: float)

snap

bool or None

solid_capstyle

CapStyle or {'butt', 'projecting', 'round'}

solid_joinstyle

JoinStyle or {'miter', 'round', 'bevel'}

transform

unknown

url

str

visible

bool

xdata

1D array

ydata

1D array

zorder

float

Examples using matplotlib.axes.Axes.spy#

Spy Demos

Spy Demos