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| Figures and backends |
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| When looking at Matplotlib visualization, you are almost always looking at |
| Artists placed on a `~.Figure`. In the example below, the figure is the |
| blue region and `~.Figure.add_subplot` has added an `~.axes.Axes` artist to the |
| `~.Figure` (see :ref:`figure_parts`). A more complicated visualization can add |
| multiple Axes to the Figure, colorbars, legends, annotations, and the Axes |
| themselves can have multiple Artists added to them |
| (e.g. ``ax.plot`` or ``ax.imshow``). |
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| .. plot:: |
| :include-source: |
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| fig = plt.figure(figsize=(4, 2), facecolor='lightskyblue', |
| layout='constrained') |
| fig.suptitle('A nice Matplotlib Figure') |
| ax = fig.add_subplot() |
| ax.set_title('Axes', loc='left', fontstyle='oblique', fontsize='medium') |
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| .. toctree:: |
| :maxdepth: 2 |
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| Introduction to figures <figure_intro> |
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| .. toctree:: |
| :maxdepth: 1 |
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| Output backends <backends> |
| Matplotlib Application Interfaces (APIs) <api_interfaces> |
| Interacting with figures <interactive> |
| Interactive figures and asynchronous programming <interactive_guide> |
| Event handling <event_handling> |
| Writing a backend -- the pyplot interface <writing_a_backend_pyplot_interface> |
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