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  • Lines, bars and markers
    • Line plot
    • Linestyles
    • Dashed line style configuration
    • Markevery Demo
    • JoinStyle
    • CapStyle
    • Marker reference
    • Infinite lines
    • Multicolored lines
    • Lines with a ticked patheffect
    • Grouped bar chart with labels
    • Bar chart with labels
    • Stacked bar chart
    • Bar chart with individual bar colors
    • Hat graph
    • Bar chart with gradients
    • Horizontal bar chart
    • Discrete distribution as horizontal bar chart
    • Broken horizontal bars
    • Scatter Demo2
    • Mapping marker properties to multivariate data
    • Marker examples
    • Scatter plot with a legend
    • Scatter plot with masked values
    • Scatter plot with histograms
    • Stairs Demo
    • Step Demo
    • Filled polygon
    • fill_between with transparency
    • Fill the area between two lines
    • Fill the area between two vertical lines
    • Stackplots and streamgraphs
    • EventCollection Demo
    • Eventplot demo
    • Timeline with lines, dates, and text
    • hlines and vlines
    • Shade regions defined by a logical mask using fill_between
    • Stem plot
    • Plotting categorical variables
    • Plotting masked and NaN values
    • Spectrum representations
  • Images, contours and fields
    • Many ways to plot images
    • Image with masked values
    • Multiple images with one colorbar
    • Modifying the coordinate formatter
    • Image resampling
    • Interpolations for imshow
    • Layer images with alpha blending
    • Blend transparency with color in 2D images
    • Shading example
    • Clipping images with patches
    • Placing images, preserving relative sizes
    • pcolor images
    • pcolormesh
    • pcolormesh grids and shading
    • Image nonuniform
    • QuadMesh Demo
    • Triplot Demo
    • Tripcolor Demo
    • Tricontour Demo
    • Tricontour Smooth User
    • Tricontour Smooth Delaunay
    • Trigradient Demo
    • Triinterp Demo
    • Contour plot of irregularly spaced data
    • Contour Demo
    • Contour Label Demo
    • Contourf demo
    • Contour image
    • Contourf and log color scale
    • Contourf hatching
    • Contour corner mask
    • Contouring the solution space of optimizations
    • Quiver Simple Demo
    • Advanced quiver and quiverkey functions
    • Wind barbs
    • Streamplot
    • Interactive adjustment of colormap range
    • Colormap normalizations
    • Colormap normalizations SymLogNorm
    • Annotated heatmap
    • Affine transform of an image
    • Visualize matrices with matshow
    • Spy Demos
    • Spectrogram
    • Barcode
    • BboxImage Demo
    • Figimage Demo
    • Watermark image
  • Statistics
    • Errorbar function
    • Different ways of specifying error bars
    • Errorbar subsampling
    • Errorbar limit selection
    • Including upper and lower limits in error bars
    • Create boxes from error bars using PatchCollection
    • Plot a confidence ellipse of a two-dimensional dataset
    • Curve with error band
    • Histograms
    • Demo of the histogram function's different histtype settings
    • Histogram bins, density, and weight
    • The histogram (hist) function with multiple data sets
    • Multiple histograms side by side
    • Bihistogram
    • Cumulative distributions
    • Hexagonal binned plot
    • Time Series Histogram
    • Boxplots
    • Artist customization in box plots
    • Box plots with custom fill colors
    • Separate calculation and plotting of boxplots
    • Box plot vs. violin plot comparison
    • Violin plot basics
    • Violin plot customization
    • Cross- and auto-correlation
    • Power spectral density (PSD)
    • Cross spectral density (CSD)
    • Plotting the coherence of two signals
  • Pie and polar charts
    • Pie charts
    • Bar of pie
    • Nested pie charts
    • A pie and a donut with labels
    • Labeling pie charts
    • Bar chart on polar axis
    • Polar plot
    • Error bar rendering on polar axis
    • Polar legend
    • Scatter plot on polar axis
  • Subplots, axes and figures
    • Multiple subplots
    • Create multiple subplots using plt.subplots
    • Axes Demo
    • GridSpec with variable sizes and spacing
    • Gridspec for multi-column/row subplot layouts
    • Nested Gridspecs
    • Combine two subplots using subplots and GridSpec
    • subplot2grid
    • Resize Axes with constrained layout
    • Resize Axes with tight layout
    • Subplots spacings and margins
    • Programmatically control subplot adjustment
    • Adjacent subplots
    • Controlling view limits using margins and sticky_edges
    • Axes box aspect
    • Equal axis aspect ratio
    • Manage multiple figures in pyplot
    • Figure size in different units
    • Figure subfigures
    • Custom Figure subclasses
    • Shared axis
    • Inverted axis
    • Plots with different scales
    • Different scales on the same Axes
    • Multiple y-axis with Spines
    • Twin Axes with delta_zorder
    • Secondary Axis
    • Align labels and titles
    • Axis label position
    • Axes properties
    • Figure labels: suptitle, supxlabel, supylabel
    • Axes zoom effect
    • Zoom region inset Axes
    • Broken axis
    • Geographic Projections
    • Draw regions that span an Axes
  • Ticks
    • Automatically setting tick positions
    • Tick locators
    • Major and minor ticks
    • Align tick labels
    • Move x/y-axis ticks and labels on top and right
    • Center labels between ticks
    • Rotated tick labels
    • Multilevel (nested) ticks
    • The default tick formatter
    • Tick formatters
    • Custom Ticker
    • Dollar ticks
    • Format ticks using engineering notation
    • SI prefixed offsets and natural order of magnitudes
    • Setting tick labels from a list of values
    • Date tick labels
    • Date tick locators and formatters
    • Format date ticks using ConciseDateFormatter
    • Date converter demo
    • Placing date ticks using recurrence rules
    • Custom tick formatter for time series
    • Date precision and epochs
    • Colorbar Tick labelling
    • Customizing figure and axes appearance
    • Fixing too many ticks
  • Scales
    • Scales overview
    • Asinh scale
    • Loglog aspect
    • Custom scale
    • Log scale
    • Logit scale
    • Exploring normalizations
    • Symlog scale
  • Spines
    • Spines
    • Spine placement
    • Dropped spines
    • Centered spines with arrows
  • Text, labels and annotations
    • Text properties
    • Controlling style of text and labels using a dictionary
    • Text alignment
    • Multiline text
    • Auto-wrap text
    • Text rotation mode
    • Text rotation angle in data coordinates
    • Concatenate text objects with different properties
    • Using a text as a Path
    • Annotating a plot
    • Annotate plots
    • Annotate polar plots
    • Angle annotations on bracket arrows
    • Annotation arrow style reference
    • Styling text boxes
    • Placing text boxes
    • Labelling subplots
    • Artists as annotations
    • Arrow Demo
    • Scale invariant angle label
    • Legend Demo
    • Legend using pre-defined labels
    • Compose custom legends
    • Figure legend demo
    • Accented text
    • The difference between \dfrac and \frac
    • Configure the font family
    • Using ttf font files
    • Font table
    • Fonts demo (object-oriented style)
    • Fonts demo (keyword arguments)
    • Convert texts to images
    • Mathtext
    • Mathematical expressions
    • Math fontfamily
    • STIX Fonts
    • Render math equations using TeX
    • Unicode minus
    • Usetex text baseline
    • Usetex font effects
    • Artist within an artist
    • Title positioning
    • Text watermark
  • Shapes and collections
    • Arrow guide
    • Reference for Matplotlib artists
    • Line, Poly and RegularPoly Collection
    • Compound path
    • Dolphins
    • Mmh Donuts!!!
    • Ellipse with orientation arrow demo
    • Ellipse Collection
    • Ellipse Demo
    • Drawing fancy boxes
    • Hatch demo
    • Hatch style reference
    • Hatchcolor Demo
    • Plot multiple lines using a LineCollection
    • Circles, Wedges and Polygons
    • PathPatch object
    • Bezier curve
    • Scatter plot
  • Color
    • Color Demo
    • Color by y-value
    • Colors in the default property cycle
    • Named color sequences
    • Colorbar
    • Histogram as colorbar
    • Colormap reference
    • Create a colormap from a list of colors
    • Selecting individual colors from a colormap
    • List of named colors
    • Ways to set a color's alpha value
  • Style sheets
    • Bayesian Methods for Hackers style sheet
    • Dark background style sheet
    • FiveThirtyEight style sheet
    • ggplot style sheet
    • Grayscale style sheet
    • Petroff style sheets
    • Solarized Light stylesheet
    • Style sheets reference
  • Module - pyplot
    • Basic plot
    • Two subplots using pyplot
  • 3D plotting
    • Plot 2D data on 3D plot
    • Demo of 3D bar charts
    • Clip the data to the axes view limits
    • Create 2D bar graphs in different planes
    • 3D box surface plot
    • Plot contour (level) curves in 3D
    • Plot contour (level) curves in 3D using the extend3d option
    • Project contour profiles onto a graph
    • Filled contours
    • Project filled contour onto a graph
    • Custom hillshading in a 3D surface plot
    • 3D errorbars
    • Fill between 3D lines
    • Fill under 3D line graphs
    • Create 3D histogram of 2D data
    • 2D images in 3D
    • Intersecting planes
    • Parametric curve
    • Lorenz attractor
    • 2D and 3D Axes in same figure
    • Automatic text offsetting
    • Draw flat objects in 3D plot
    • Generate 3D polygons
    • 3D plot projection types
    • 3D quiver plot
    • Rotating a 3D plot
    • Scales on 3D (Log, Symlog, etc.)
    • 3D scatterplot
    • 3D stem
    • 3D plots as subplots
    • 3D surface (colormap)
    • 3D surface (solid color)
    • 3D surface (checkerboard)
    • 3D surface with polar coordinates
    • Text annotations in 3D
    • Triangular 3D contour plot
    • Triangular 3D filled contour plot
    • Triangular 3D surfaces
    • More triangular 3D surfaces
    • Primary 3D view planes
    • 3D voxel / volumetric plot
    • 3D voxel plot of the NumPy logo
    • 3D voxel / volumetric plot with RGB colors
    • 3D voxel / volumetric plot with cylindrical coordinates
    • 3D wireframe plot
    • Animate a 3D wireframe plot
    • 3D wireframe plots in one direction
  • Module - axes_grid1
    • Anchored Direction Arrow
    • Axes divider
    • Demo Axes Grid
    • Axes Grid2
    • HBoxDivider and VBoxDivider demo
    • Show RGB channels using RGBAxes
    • Colorbar with AxesDivider
    • Control the position and size of a colorbar with inset_locator.inset_axes
    • Per-row or per-column colorbars
    • Axes with a fixed physical size
    • ImageGrid cells with a fixed aspect ratio
    • Inset locator demo
    • Inset locator demo 2
    • Make room for ylabel using axes_grid
    • Parasite Simple
    • Parasite Simple2
    • Align histogram to scatter plot using locatable Axes
    • Simple Anchored Artists
    • Simple Axes Divider 1
    • Simple axes divider 3
    • Simple ImageGrid
    • Simple ImageGrid 2
    • Simple Axisline4
  • Module - axisartist
    • Axis Direction
    • axis_direction demo
    • Axis line styles
    • Curvilinear grid demo
    • Demo CurveLinear Grid2
    • floating_axes features
    • floating_axis demo
    • Parasite Axes demo
    • Parasite axis demo
    • Ticklabel alignment
    • Ticklabel direction
    • Simple axis direction
    • Simple axis tick label and tick directions
    • Simple axis pad
    • Custom spines with axisartist
    • Simple Axisline
    • Simple Axisline3
  • Animation
    • Basic animated line plot
    • Decay
    • Animated histogram
    • pyplot animation
    • The Bayes update
    • The double pendulum problem
    • Animated image using a precomputed list of images
    • Frame grabbing
    • Multiple Axes animation
    • Pause and resume an animation
    • Rain simulation
    • Animated 3D random walk
    • Animated scatter saved as GIF
    • Oscilloscope
    • Matplotlib unchained
  • Widgets
    • Annotated cursor
    • Buttons
    • Check buttons
    • Cursor
    • Lasso Selector
    • Menu
    • Mouse Cursor
    • Multicursor
    • Select indices from a collection using polygon selector
    • Polygon Selector
    • Radio Buttons
    • Radio Buttons Grid
    • Image scaling using a RangeSlider
    • Rectangle and ellipse selectors
    • Slider
    • Snap sliders to discrete values
    • Span Selector
    • Textbox
  • Event handling
    • Close event
    • Mouse move and click events
    • Cross-hair cursor
    • Data browser
    • Figure/Axes enter and leave events
    • Interactive functions
    • Scroll event
    • Keypress event
    • Lasso Demo
    • Legend picking
    • Looking glass
    • Path editor
    • Pick event demo
    • Pick event demo 2
    • Polygon editor
    • Pong
    • Resampling Data
    • Timers
    • Trifinder Event Demo
    • Viewlims
    • Zoom modifies other Axes
  • Embedding Matplotlib in graphical user interfaces
    • CanvasAgg demo
    • Embed in GTK3 with a navigation toolbar
    • Embed in GTK3
    • Embed in GTK4 with a navigation toolbar
    • Embed in GTK4
    • Embed in Qt
    • Embed in Tk
    • Embed in wx #2
    • Embed in wx #3
    • Embed in wx #4
    • Embed in wx #5
    • Embedding WebAgg
    • Fourier Demo WX
    • GTK3 spreadsheet
    • GTK4 spreadsheet
    • Display mathtext in WX
    • Matplotlib with Glade 3
    • mplcvd -- an example of figure hook
    • pyplot with GTK3
    • pyplot with GTK4
    • SVG Histogram
    • SVG Tooltip
    • Tool Manager
    • Embed in a web application server (Flask)
    • Add a cursor in WX
  • Units
    • Annotation with units
    • Artist tests
    • Bar demo with units
    • Group barchart with units
    • Basic units
    • Ellipse with units
    • Evans test
    • Radian ticks
    • Inches and centimeters
    • Unit handling
  • Miscellaneous
    • Anchored Artists
    • Identify whether artists intersect
    • Manual Contour
    • Coords Report
    • Custom projection
    • Customize Rc
    • AGG filter
    • Ribbon box
    • Add lines directly to a figure
    • Fill spiral
    • Findobj Demo
    • Font indexing
    • Font properties
    • Building histograms using Rectangles and PolyCollections
    • Hyperlinks
    • Plotting with keywords
    • Matplotlib logo
    • Multipage PDF
    • Multiprocessing
    • Packed-bubble chart
    • Patheffect Demo
    • Print image to stdout
    • Rasterization for vector graphics
    • Set and get properties
    • Apply SVG filter to a line
    • SVG filter pie
    • Table Demo
    • TickedStroke patheffect
    • transforms.offset_copy
    • Zorder Demo
  • Showcase
    • Anatomy of a figure
    • Firefox
    • Integral as the area under a curve
    • Shaded & power normalized rendering
    • Pan/zoom events of overlapping axes
    • Stock prices over 32 years
    • XKCD
  • Specialty plots
    • Hillshading
    • Anscombe's quartet
    • Hinton diagrams
    • Ishikawa Diagram
    • Left ventricle bullseye
    • MRI with EEG
    • Radar chart (aka spider or star chart)
    • The Sankey class
    • Long chain of connections using Sankey
    • Rankine power cycle
    • SkewT-logP diagram: using transforms and custom projections
    • Topographic hillshading
  • Examples
  • Spines

Spines#

Spines

Spines

Spine placement

Spine placement

Dropped spines

Dropped spines

Centered spines with arrows

Centered spines with arrows

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