How to Turn Off the Axes for Subplots in Matplotlib?

In this article, we are going to discuss how to turn off the axes of subplots using matplotlib module. We can turn off the axes for subplots and plots using the below methods:

Method 1: Using matplotlib.axes.Axes.axis()

To turn off the axes for subplots, we will matplotlib.axes.Axes.axis() method here.

Python3

# import required modules
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import matplotlib.tri as mtri
import numpy as np

# assign data
x = np.asarray([0, 1, 2, 3, 0.5,
                1.5, 2.5, 1, 2,
                1.5])

y = np.asarray([0, 0, 0, 0, 1.0,
                1.0, 1.0, 2, 2,
                3.0])

triangles = [[0, 1, 4], [1, 5, 4],
            [2, 6, 5], [4, 5, 7],
            [5, 6, 8], [5, 8, 7],
            [7, 8, 9], [1, 2, 5],
            [2, 3, 6]]

# depict illustration
triang = mtri.Triangulation(x, y, triangles)
z = np.cos(1.5 * x) * np.cos(1.5 * y)

fig, axs = plt.subplots()
axs.tricontourf(triang, z)
axs.triplot(triang, 'go-', color ='white')

# turn off the axes
axs.set_axis_off()

# assign title
axs.set_title('Triangle illustration')

plt.show()

Output:

Here, we turn off axes using the axis(“off”) statement.  

Method 2: Using matplotlib.axes.Axes.set_axis_off()

We use matplotlib.axes.Axes.set_axis_off() to turn the x-and y-pivot off influencing the axis lines, ticks, ticklabels, network and axis marks as well.

Python3

# import required modules
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np

# time series data
geeksx = np.array([24.40, 110.25, 20.05,
                22.00, 61.90, 7.80,
                15.00])

geeksy = np.array([24.40, 110.25, 20.05,
                22.00, 61.90, 7.80,
                15.00])

# depict illustration
fig, ax = plt.subplots()
ax.xcorr(geeksx, geeksy, maxlags = 6,
        color ="green")

# turn off the axes
ax.set_axis_off()

# assign title
ax.set_title('Time series graph')
plt.show()

Output:

Method 3: Using matplotlib.pyplot.axis()

In a visualization, if the figure has a single plot in it, we can turn off the axes for subplots by making look like a contention to the matplotlib.pyplot.axis() technique. If the figure contains different subplots, this technique just turns off axes for the last subplot.

Python3

# importing module
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

# assigning x and y coordinates
x = [-5, -4, -3, -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
y = []

for i in range(len(x)):
    y.append(max(0, x[i]))

# depicting the visualization
ax = plt.plot(x, y, color='green')

# turn off the axes
plt.axis('off')

# displaying the title
plt.title("ReLU function graph")

plt.show()

Output:

Here, we turn off axes using the plt.axis(“off”) statement.