Python add text to matplotlib.image.AxesImage instance

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i have this code for creating a series of image from a series of matrixes, and in each image i want to add a specific text. this is my typical code :

ax = axes([0,0,1,1])

for i in range(0,5):
    text(1,1,str(i))
    ax.imshow(a[:,:,i],origin='lower')
    savefig(str("%04d" % int(i))+'.png',format="png")
    del ax.texts[-1]

but the problem is that as the number of iteration increases, the speed decease and it becomes so so slow. It seems that there is something wrong with opening a lot of windows in background.

Any suggestion?

Did you get this sorted out?

tacaswell
– tacaswell

2013-10-05 00:38:28 +00:00
Commented Oct 5, 2013 at 0:38 — tacaswell
– tacaswell, Commented Oct 5, 2013 at 0:38

Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 10:25:17Z

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Instead of creating a new image and text objects every loop reuse the objects.

ax = axes([0,0,1,1])
t = text(1,1,str(0))
img = ax.imshow(a[:,:,0],origin='lower')

for i in range(0,5):
    t.set_text(str(i)
    img.set_data(a[:,:,i])
    savefig(str("%04d" % int(i))+'.png',format="png")

also see

Visualization of 3D-numpy-array frame by frame

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Mojtaba Over a year ago

Thanx for the answer! i simply add close(gcf()) and it works. i also tried yours, the speed is the same. but for your case, we have to define a new figure object to works.

tacaswell Over a year ago

If this solved your problem please accept it, if you used a different solution, please post what you used and accept your own answer.

Mojtaba · Accepted Answer · 2013-12-10 13:15:19Z

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I just added this single line at the end of the loop and it works fine now. It was simply the problem of accumulating previuosly opened figures in the memory.

ax = axes([0,0,1,1])

for i in range(0,5):
    text(1,1,str(i))
    ax.imshow(a[:,:,i],origin='lower')
    savefig(str("%04d" % int(i))+'.png',format="png")
    del ax.texts[-1] 
    close(gcf())

answered Dec 10, 2013 at 13:15

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