.. _sphx_glr_tutorials_intermediate:

.. _tutorials-intermediate:

Intermediate
------------

These tutorials cover some of the more complicated classes and functions
in Matplotlib. They can be useful for particular custom and complex
visualizations.



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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="Using Artist objects to render on the canvas.">

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  .. image:: /tutorials/intermediate/images/thumb/sphx_glr_artists_thumb.png
    :alt: Artist tutorial

  :ref:`sphx_glr_tutorials_intermediate_artists.py`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Artist tutorial</div>
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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="Generating legends flexibly in Matplotlib.">

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  .. image:: /tutorials/intermediate/images/thumb/sphx_glr_legend_guide_thumb.png
    :alt: Legend guide

  :ref:`sphx_glr_tutorials_intermediate_legend_guide.py`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Legend guide</div>
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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="Demo of custom property-cycle settings to control colors and other style properties for multi-l...">

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  .. image:: /tutorials/intermediate/images/thumb/sphx_glr_color_cycle_thumb.png
    :alt: Styling with cycler

  :ref:`sphx_glr_tutorials_intermediate_color_cycle.py`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Styling with cycler</div>
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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="How to use constrained-layout to fit plots within your figure cleanly.">

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  .. image:: /tutorials/intermediate/images/thumb/sphx_glr_constrainedlayout_guide_thumb.png
    :alt: Constrained Layout Guide

  :ref:`sphx_glr_tutorials_intermediate_constrainedlayout_guide.py`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Constrained Layout Guide</div>
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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="How to use tight-layout to fit plots within your figure cleanly.">

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  .. image:: /tutorials/intermediate/images/thumb/sphx_glr_tight_layout_guide_thumb.png
    :alt: Tight Layout guide

  :ref:`sphx_glr_tutorials_intermediate_tight_layout_guide.py`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Tight Layout guide</div>
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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="Often more than one Axes is wanted on a figure at a time, usually organized into a regular grid...">

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  .. image:: /tutorials/intermediate/images/thumb/sphx_glr_arranging_axes_thumb.png
    :alt: Arranging multiple Axes in a Figure

  :ref:`sphx_glr_tutorials_intermediate_arranging_axes.py`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Arranging multiple Axes in a Figure</div>
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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="The limits on an axis can be set manually (e.g. ax.set_xlim(xmin, xmax)) or Matplotlib can set ...">

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  .. image:: /tutorials/intermediate/images/thumb/sphx_glr_autoscale_thumb.png
    :alt: Autoscaling

  :ref:`sphx_glr_tutorials_intermediate_autoscale.py`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Autoscaling</div>
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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="imshow allows you to render an image (either a 2D array which will be color-mapped (based on *n...">

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  .. image:: /tutorials/intermediate/images/thumb/sphx_glr_imshow_extent_thumb.png
    :alt: *origin* and *extent* in `~.Axes.imshow`

  :ref:`sphx_glr_tutorials_intermediate_imshow_extent.py`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">*origin* and *extent* in `~.Axes.imshow`</div>
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    </div>


.. toctree::
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   /tutorials/intermediate/artists
   /tutorials/intermediate/legend_guide
   /tutorials/intermediate/color_cycle
   /tutorials/intermediate/constrainedlayout_guide
   /tutorials/intermediate/tight_layout_guide
   /tutorials/intermediate/arranging_axes
   /tutorials/intermediate/autoscale
   /tutorials/intermediate/imshow_extent