The default size chosen by imshow yields unpleasantly small images. Fortunately, you can easily change them using the rather strangely named gcf() function:
import pylab as P ... f = P.gcf() f.set_figheight(16) f.set_figwidth(16)
log-spaced values with numpy
I knew this had to exist, since otherwise generated logarithmic plots in matplotlib would be a pain in the butt. Still, it took a bit of searching, although perhaps just the name should have clued me in.
fig, ax = plt.subplots() steps = N.log10(N.logspace(0.9, 1-1e-5)) ax.set_yscale('log', basex=10) ax.plot(steps, f(steps), '-')Also, a shout-out for the ipython inline graphs (
ipython notebook --pylab inline). Beautiful, and I can copy-paste them into emails and google docs!