How to change Matplotlib color bar size in Python?
Colorbar is a separate axis that provides a current colormap indicating mapping of data-points into colors. In this article, We are going to change Matplotlib color bar size in Python. There are several ways with which you can resize your color-bar or adjust its position. Let’s see it one by one.
Method 1: Resizing color-bar using shrink keyword argument
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Using the shrink attribute of colorbar() function we can scale the size of the colorbar.
Syntax : matplotlib.pyplot.colorbar(mappable=None, shrink=scale)
Basically, we are multiplying by some factor to the original size of the color-bar. In the below example by using 0.5 as a factor, We are having the original color-bar size.
Example 1:
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# importing libraryimport matplotlib.pyplot as plt # Some data to show as an imagedata = [[1, 2, 3], [4, 5, 6]] # Call imshow() to display 2-D data as an imageimg = plt.imshow(data) # Scaling colorbar by factor 0.5plt.colorbar(shrink=0.5)plt.show() |
Output:
Using_shrink_attribute
Example 2: In this example, we are using factor 0.75. Similarly, you can use any factor to change the color-bar size. The default value of the shrink attribute is 1.
Python3
import matplotlib.pyplot as pltimport matplotlib.image as mpimgfig, ax = plt.subplots() # getting rid of axisplt.axis('off') # Reading saved image from folderimg = mpimg.imread(r'img.jpg') # displaying imageplt.imshow(img) # Scaling by factor 0.75plt.colorbar(shrink=0.75)plt.show() |
Output:
Using_shrink_attribute
Method 2: Using AxesDivider class
With this class, you can change the size of the colorbar axes however height will be the same as the current axes. Here we are using axes_divider.make_axes_locatable function which returns the AxisDivider object for our current axes in which our image is shown.
Example:
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# importing librariesimport matplotlib.pyplot as pltfrom mpl_toolkits.axes_grid1 import make_axes_locatable fig, ax = plt.subplots()# Reading image from folder img = mpimg.imread(r'img.jpg')image = plt.imshow(img) # Locating current axesdivider = make_axes_locatable(ax) # creating new axes on the right# side of current axes(ax).# The width of cax will be 5% of ax# and the padding between cax and ax# will be fixed at 0.05 inch.colorbar_axes = divider.append_axes("right", size="10%", pad=0.1)# Using new axes for colorbarplt.colorbar(image, cax=colorbar_axes)plt.show() |
Output:
Using_AxisDivider
