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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"imshow() subplots with shared axes generate unwanted white spaces","articleBody":"When plotting two (or more) subplots which share the same axes, I see large areas of white spaces within the plots as seen here:\n![sharexImage](https://f.cloud.github.com/assets/3713541/199960/4b04380e-80b0-11e2-935e-273dc2fb74ef.png)\n\n``` python\nimport matplotlib.pyplot as plt\nimport numpy as np\n\nfig = plt.figure()\nax = fig.add_subplot(2, 1, 1)\nax.imshow(np.random.random((10,10)))\nax.autoscale(False)\nax2 = fig.add_subplot(2, 1, 2, sharex=ax, sharey=ax)\nax2.imshow(np.random.random((10,10)))\nax2.autoscale(False)\nplt.show()\n```\n\nThese white spaces persist even after `autoscale(False)`, `ax.set_xlim(0, 10)`, and/or `ax.set_xbound(0, 10)`.  One way to get rid of the white spaces is to set `aspect=auto` in `imshow()`, but this is not always ideal.\nOne could also set a `figsize` and manually adjust the axes to get the image contained exactly within the figure without white spaces, but resizing the figure would make the white spaces appear again.\n\nIs there a way to correct for this behaviour?\n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/rycmak","@type":"Person","name":"rycmak"},"datePublished":"2013-02-27T07:49:20.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":11},"url":"https://github.com/1789/matplotlib/issues/1789"}