Remove white border when using subplot and imshow in Python Matplotlib

To remove white border when using subplot and imshow(), we can take the following steps −

Set the figure size and adjust the padding between and around the subplots.
Create random data points using numpy.
Get the size of the data.
Set the figure sizes in inches.
Get the axes instance that contains most of the figure element.
Turn off the axes.
Add axes to the figure.
Display the data as an image, i.e., on a 2D regular raster.
To display the figure, use show() method.

Example

import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

plt.rcParams["figure.figsize"] = [7.00, 3.50]
plt.rcParams["figure.autolayout"] = True

data = np.random.randint(0, 50, (50, 50))
sizes = np.shape(data)

fig = plt.figure()
fig.set_size_inches(1. * sizes[0] / sizes[1], 1, forward=False)

ax = plt.Axes(fig, [0., 0., 1., 1.])
ax.set_axis_off()

fig.add_axes(ax)
ax.imshow(data)

plt.show()

Output

It will produce the following output

Rishikesh Kumar Rishi

Updated on: 2021-09-22T06:50:19+05:30

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