.. _sphx_glr_auto_examples_PlotTypes:

Plot Types
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A collection of short examples showing different plot types.

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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="Axis labels, titles, and the colorbar label accept an optional fontsize (in CSS pixels) and support a small TeX subset inside $...$ for scientific notation — superscripts, subscripts, Greek letters, and common symbols — rendered directly on the canvas with no MathJax dependency:">

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  :doc:`/auto_examples/PlotTypes/plot_label_formatting`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Label Sizes and Scientific (TeX) Formatting</div>
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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="Demonstrate the three 3-D geometry types supported by plot_surface, scatter3d, and plot3d. Drag to rotate, scroll to zoom, press R to reset the view.">

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  .. image:: /auto_examples/PlotTypes/images/thumb/sphx_glr_plot_3d_thumb.png
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  :doc:`/auto_examples/PlotTypes/plot_3d`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">3D Plotting</div>
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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="Demonstrate pcolormesh with non-uniform (log-spaced) x-edges and irregularly-spaced y-edges, mirroring matplotlib.axes.Axes.pcolormesh.">

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  :doc:`/auto_examples/PlotTypes/plot_pcolormesh`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">pcolormesh — non-linear axes</div>
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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="Plot a 1-D spectrum with a physical x-axis (energy in eV) using plot.">

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  :doc:`/auto_examples/PlotTypes/plot_spectra1d`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">1D Spectra</div>
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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="Floating informational sub-plots that overlay the main figure — useful for displaying supplementary data alongside a primary image, as seen in orientation mapping, phase analysis, and similar workflows.">

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  .. image:: /auto_examples/PlotTypes/images/thumb/sphx_glr_plot_inset_thumb.png
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  :doc:`/auto_examples/PlotTypes/plot_inset`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Inset Plots</div>
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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="Display a 2-D image with physical axes, a colourmap, and an interactive histogram below — all wired together with draggable threshold widgets.">

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  .. image:: /auto_examples/PlotTypes/images/thumb/sphx_glr_plot_image2d_thumb.png
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  :doc:`/auto_examples/PlotTypes/plot_image2d`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">2D Image with Histogram</div>
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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="Demonstrates the line-style, opacity, and per-point marker parameters available on plot and add_line.">

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  .. image:: /auto_examples/PlotTypes/images/thumb/sphx_glr_plot_line_styles_thumb.png
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  :doc:`/auto_examples/PlotTypes/plot_line_styles`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">1D Line Styles</div>
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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="Demonstrate bar with:">

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  :doc:`/auto_examples/PlotTypes/plot_bar`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Bar Chart</div>
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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="GridSpec lets you build multi-panel figures where panels have different sizes and span multiple grid cells.  This gallery shows the most common patterns.">

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  :doc:`/auto_examples/PlotTypes/plot_gridspec_custom`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Custom Grid Layouts with GridSpec</div>
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.. toctree::
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   /auto_examples/PlotTypes/plot_label_formatting
   /auto_examples/PlotTypes/plot_3d
   /auto_examples/PlotTypes/plot_pcolormesh
   /auto_examples/PlotTypes/plot_spectra1d
   /auto_examples/PlotTypes/plot_inset
   /auto_examples/PlotTypes/plot_image2d
   /auto_examples/PlotTypes/plot_line_styles
   /auto_examples/PlotTypes/plot_bar
   /auto_examples/PlotTypes/plot_gridspec_custom