Matplotlib: Figimage Not Showing In Jupyter Notebook

I'm trying to render an image at its true dimensions (not scaled or stretched) and the easiest way to do this with matplotlib seems to be figimage. However, when I try to use it in

Solution 1:

figimage only adds a background to the current figure. If you don't have an already existing figure, the command wont render anything. The following snippet will work both inside and outside IPython Notebook:

%matplotlib inlineimport matplotlib
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np

plt.figure()

x = np.linspace(0, 2 * np.pi, 500)
plt.plot(x, np.sin(x))

data = np.random.randn(500, 500)
plt.figimage(data)

plt.show()

However, it doesn't do what you want/expect. In order to render an image in its true dimensions you would have to play with figsize and dpi, as others have attempted previously [1][2][3][4]:

data = np.random.randn(500, 500)
dpi = 80
shape = data.shape

fig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(shape[1]/float(dpi), shape[0]/float(dpi)), dpi=dpi, frameon=False)
ax.imshow(data, extent=(0,1,1,0))
ax.set_xticks([])  # remove xticks
ax.set_yticks([])  # remove yticks
ax.axis('off')     # hide axis
fig.subplots_adjust(bottom=0, top=1, left=0, right=1, wspace=0, hspace=0)  # streches the image and removes margins
fig.savefig('/tmp/random.png', dpi=dpi, pad_inches=0, transparent=True) # Optional: save figure
fig.show()