imshow_norm

astropy.visualization.imshow_norm(data, ax=None, **kwargs)

A convenience function to call matplotlib’s matplotlib.pyplot.imshow function, using an ImageNormalize object as the normalization.

Parameters:

data2D or 3D array_like

The data to show. Can be whatever imshow and ImageNormalize both accept. See imshow.

axNone or Axes, optional

If None, use pyplot’s imshow. Otherwise, calls imshow method of the supplied axes.

**kwargsdict, optional

All other keyword arguments are parsed first by the ImageNormalize initializer, then to imshow.

Returns:

resulttuple

A tuple containing the AxesImage generated by imshow as well as the ImageNormalize instance.

Notes

The norm matplotlib keyword is not supported.

Examples

import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from astropy.visualization import (imshow_norm, MinMaxInterval,
                                   SqrtStretch)

# Generate and display a test image
image = np.arange(65536).reshape((256, 256))
fig = plt.figure()
ax = fig.add_subplot(1, 1, 1)
im, norm = imshow_norm(image, ax, origin='lower',
                       interval=MinMaxInterval(),
                       stretch=SqrtStretch())
fig.colorbar(im)

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