import numpy as np import matplotlib as mpl import matplotlib.pyplot as plt import matplotlib.ticker as ticker __all__ = ["palplot", "dogplot"] def palplot(pal, size=1): """Plot the values in a color palette as a horizontal array. Parameters ---------- pal : sequence of matplotlib colors colors, i.e. as returned by seaborn.color_palette() size : scaling factor for size of plot """ n = len(pal) _, ax = plt.subplots(1, 1, figsize=(n * size, size)) ax.imshow(np.arange(n).reshape(1, n), cmap=mpl.colors.ListedColormap(list(pal)), interpolation="nearest", aspect="auto") ax.set_xticks(np.arange(n) - .5) ax.set_yticks([-.5, .5]) # Ensure nice border between colors ax.set_xticklabels(["" for _ in range(n)]) # The proper way to set no ticks ax.yaxis.set_major_locator(ticker.NullLocator()) def dogplot(*_, **__): """Who's a good boy?""" from urllib.request import urlopen from io import BytesIO url = "https://github.com/mwaskom/seaborn-data/raw/master/png/img{}.png" pic = np.random.randint(2, 7) data = BytesIO(urlopen(url.format(pic)).read()) img = plt.imread(data) f, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(5, 5), dpi=100) f.subplots_adjust(0, 0, 1, 1) ax.imshow(img) ax.set_axis_off()