
.. DO NOT EDIT.
.. THIS FILE WAS AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED BY SPHINX-GALLERY.
.. TO MAKE CHANGES, EDIT THE SOURCE PYTHON FILE:
.. "gallery/images_contours_and_fields/image_clip_path.py"
.. LINE NUMBERS ARE GIVEN BELOW.

.. only:: html

    .. meta::
        :keywords: codex

    .. note::
        :class: sphx-glr-download-link-note

        :ref:`Go to the end <sphx_glr_download_gallery_images_contours_and_fields_image_clip_path.py>`
        to download the full example code.

.. rst-class:: sphx-glr-example-title

.. _sphx_glr_gallery_images_contours_and_fields_image_clip_path.py:


============================
Clipping images with patches
============================

Demo of image that's been clipped by a circular patch.

.. GENERATED FROM PYTHON SOURCE LINES 8-24

.. code-block:: Python

    import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

    import matplotlib.cbook as cbook
    import matplotlib.patches as patches

    with cbook.get_sample_data('grace_hopper.jpg') as image_file:
        image = plt.imread(image_file)

    fig, ax = plt.subplots()
    im = ax.imshow(image)
    patch = patches.Circle((260, 200), radius=200, transform=ax.transData)
    im.set_clip_path(patch)

    ax.axis('off')
    plt.show()




.. image-sg:: /gallery/images_contours_and_fields/images/sphx_glr_image_clip_path_001.png
   :alt: image clip path
   :srcset: /gallery/images_contours_and_fields/images/sphx_glr_image_clip_path_001.png, /gallery/images_contours_and_fields/images/sphx_glr_image_clip_path_001_2_00x.png 2.00x
   :class: sphx-glr-single-img





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.. admonition:: References

   The use of the following functions, methods, classes and modules is shown
   in this example:

   - `matplotlib.axes.Axes.imshow` / `matplotlib.pyplot.imshow`
   - `matplotlib.artist.Artist.set_clip_path`


.. _sphx_glr_download_gallery_images_contours_and_fields_image_clip_path.py:

.. only:: html

  .. container:: sphx-glr-footer sphx-glr-footer-example

    .. container:: sphx-glr-download sphx-glr-download-jupyter

      :download:`Download Jupyter notebook: image_clip_path.ipynb <image_clip_path.ipynb>`

    .. container:: sphx-glr-download sphx-glr-download-python

      :download:`Download Python source code: image_clip_path.py <image_clip_path.py>`

    .. container:: sphx-glr-download sphx-glr-download-zip

      :download:`Download zipped: image_clip_path.zip <image_clip_path.zip>`


.. only:: html

 .. rst-class:: sphx-glr-signature

    `Gallery generated by Sphinx-Gallery <https://sphinx-gallery.github.io>`_
