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Reading and writing an elephant¶
Read and write images
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
original figure¶
plt.figure()
img = plt.imread("../../../data/elephant.png")
plt.imshow(img)

<matplotlib.image.AxesImage object at 0x7f06247b2ba0>
red channel displayed in grey¶
plt.figure()
img_red = img[:, :, 0]
plt.imshow(img_red, cmap="gray")

<matplotlib.image.AxesImage object at 0x7f063c4dea20>
lower resolution¶
plt.figure()
img_tiny = img[::6, ::6]
plt.imshow(img_tiny, interpolation="nearest")
plt.show()

Total running time of the script: (0 minutes 0.249 seconds)