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 <amitsaha...@gmail.com> 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. > > > -- > http://echorand.me > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Matplotlib-users mailing list > Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users >
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