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# Dropped spines

Demo of spines offset from the axes (a.k.a. “dropped spines”).

    import numpy as np
    import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

    # Fixing random state for reproducibility
    np.random.seed(19680801)

    fig, ax = plt.subplots()

    image = np.random.uniform(size=(10, 10))
    ax.imshow(image, cmap=plt.cm.gray, interpolation='nearest')
    ax.set_title('dropped spines')

    # Move left and bottom spines outward by 10 points
    ax.spines['left'].set_position(('outward', 10))
    ax.spines['bottom'].set_position(('outward', 10))
    # Hide the right and top spines
    ax.spines['right'].set_visible(False)
    ax.spines['top'].set_visible(False)
    # Only show ticks on the left and bottom spines
    ax.yaxis.set_ticks_position('left')
    ax.xaxis.set_ticks_position('bottom')

    plt.show()

Total running time of the script: ( 0 minutes 0.024 seconds)

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