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scipy.misc.imshow

scipy.misc.imshow(arr)

Simple showing of an image through an external viewer.

Uses the image viewer specified by the environment variable SCIPY_PIL_IMAGE_VIEWER, or if that is not defined then see, to view a temporary file generated from array data.

Parameters :

arr : ndarray

Array of image data to show.

Returns :

None :

Examples

>>> a = np.tile(np.arange(255), (255,1))
>>> from scipy import misc
>>> misc.pilutil.imshow(a)