Examples

See the examples/ folder for source code.

Image	Example
	Boing The Amiga Boing Ball, 1984, animated the way the Amiga animated it: the ball is drawn once as colour indices and spins because the palette is rewritten between frames, while the bounce moves a rigid sprite to whole-pixel positions. Two lookups, so the whole animation is one array with a time axis — built with `mp.animation` and played as a value rather than a loop. Run it and the palette driving the spin is shown cycling underneath; the gif here is the ball on its own. Source
	Calendar heatmap Calendar heatmap of daily maximum temperatures in Oxford, 2025. Source
	Colormaps Gallery of all available continuous and discrete colormaps. Source
	Dashboard Live system monitoring dashboard showing CPU and memory usage. Source
	Demo General demonstration combining images, borders, and scatter plots. Source
	Functions Mathematical function visualisation with scatter and function2. Source
	Game of Life Conway’s Game of Life, coloured by what just happened to each cell: newborn, stable, or recently dead. The panels underneath track the cell counts and, on the right, what each frame cost to write against what a full redraw would have cost — the two curves separate as the board settles, because a differential redraw costs in proportion to the cells that changed rather than the size of the board. Source
	Hilbert curve Hilbert curve visualisation of binomial data. Source
	Image rendering Image rendering with various colormaps. Source
	Joint distribution Joint distribution with marginal histograms, demonstrating plot composition with hstack and vstack. Source
	Lissajous curves Brownian motion PCA visualisation with scatterplots and plot arrangement. Source
	Mandelbrot Animated Mandelbrot fractal zoom using function heatmaps and colormaps. Source
	Quickstart 1 Coloured cosine waves with phase offsets. Source
	Quickstart 2 Animated cosine wave with shifting phase and amplitude, as a loop of `print(plot - prev)`. Source
	Quickstart 3 The same animation with the loop handed to `mp.animate`, which keeps the previous frame and the frame clock. Source
	Scatter Spiral scatter plot with viridis colormap. Source
	Teacher-student regression Gradient descent on a simple teacher-student linear regression model. Source
	Teapot 3D scatter plot with animated camera orbit. Source
Nothing to show here: a picture of this one running on someone else’s terminal tells you nothing about yours.	Terminal test Does your terminal render matthewplotlib correctly? Four stages — colour, redrawing in place, resizing, and a plot pushed against the right margin — exercising every escape sequence the library can emit, each saying what it should look like so you can judge it. Measures your terminal’s width and draws to it. See the compatibility page. Source
	Time series histogram Time series visualisation with stacked scatter, pooled scatter, and 2D histogram. Source
	Voronoi diagram Voronoi diagram using function heatmaps and scipy. Source