Re: [Matplotlib-users] plot() and imshow() relationship

[Paul H. <pmh...@gm...>]

imshow is for displaying arrays as images/rasters.

plot is for showing data/functions as points and lines.

See the gallery for imshow:
http://matplotlib.org/gallery.html#images_contours_and_fields

On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 4:12 AM, Amit Saha <ami...@gm...> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I  am trying to understand if there is a way to compare how plot() and
> imshow() works for the case where I am not using imshow() to display
> an image.
>
> Via the plot() function, I am specifying the points that I want to
> plot and also optionally the color that i want the points to be in.
> For example, plot([1, 2, 3], [2, 3, 4], 'ro') will create a plot with
> those points colored "red". Via the imshow() function, we specify the
> color (or intensity) of each point and a figure is created with the
> points colored accordingly. Sure, imshow() allows me to color each
> point differently.
>
> Is there a way to relate them?
>
> Also asked on StackOverflow:
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/30527811/plot-and-imshow-relationship
>
> Thanks,
> Amit.
>
>
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