matplotlib.axes.Axes.fill_between

Axes.fill_between(self, x, y1, y2=0, where=None, interpolate=False, step=None, *, data=None, **kwargs) [source]

Fill the area between two horizontal curves.

The curves are defined by the points (x, y1) and (x, y2). This creates one or multiple polygons describing the filled area.

You may exclude some horizontal sections from filling using where.

By default, the edges connect the given points directly. Use step if the filling should be a step function, i.e. constant in between x.

Parameters:	x : array (length N) The x coordinates of the nodes defining the curves. y1 : array (length N) or scalar The y coordinates of the nodes defining the first curve. y2 : array (length N) or scalar, optional, default: 0 The y coordinates of the nodes defining the second curve. where : array of bool (length N), optional, default: None Define where to exclude some horizontal regions from being filled. The filled regions are defined by the coordinates x[where]. More precisely, fill between x[i] and x[i+1] if where[i] and where[i+1]. Note that this definition implies that an isolated True value between two False values in where will not result in filling. Both sides of the True position remain unfilled due to the adjacent False values. interpolate : bool, optional This option is only relevant if where is used and the two curves are crossing each other. Semantically, where is often used for y1 > y2 or similar. By default, the nodes of the polygon defining the filled region will only be placed at the positions in the x array. Such a polygon cannot describe the above semantics close to the intersection. The x-sections containing the intersection are simply clipped. Setting interpolate to True will calculate the actual intersection point and extend the filled region up to this point. step : {'pre', 'post', 'mid'}, optional Define step if the filling should be a step function, i.e. constant in between x. The value determines where the step will occur: 'pre': The y value is continued constantly to the left from every x position, i.e. the interval (x[i-1], x[i]] has the value y[i]. 'post': The y value is continued constantly to the right from every x position, i.e. the interval [x[i], x[i+1]) has the value y[i]. 'mid': Steps occur half-way between the x positions.
Returns:	PolyCollection A PolyCollection containing the plotted polygons.
Other Parameters:	**kwargs All other keyword arguments are passed on to PolyCollection. They control the Polygon properties: Property Description agg_filter a filter function, which takes a (m, n, 3) float array and a dpi value, and returns a (m, n, 3) array alpha float or None animated bool antialiased or aa or antialiaseds bool or sequence of bools array ndarray capstyle {'butt', 'round', 'projecting'} clim a length 2 sequence of floats; may be overridden in methods that have vmin and vmax kwargs. clip_box Bbox clip_on bool clip_path [(Path, Transform) | Patch | None] cmap colormap or registered colormap name color color or sequence of rgba tuples contains callable edgecolor or ec or edgecolors color or sequence of colors or 'face' facecolor or facecolors or fc color or sequence of colors figure Figure gid str hatch {'/', '\', '|', '-', '+', 'x', 'o', 'O', '.', '*'} in_layout bool joinstyle {'miter', 'round', 'bevel'} label object linestyle or dashes or linestyles or ls {'-', '--', '-.', ':', '', (offset, on-off-seq), ...} linewidth or linewidths or lw float or sequence of floats norm Normalize offset_position {'screen', 'data'} offsets float or sequence of floats path_effects AbstractPathEffect picker None or bool or float or callable pickradius unknown rasterized bool or None sketch_params (scale: float, length: float, randomness: float) snap bool or None transform Transform url str urls List[str] or None visible bool zorder float

See also

fill_betweenx

Fill between two sets of x-values.

Notes

Note

In addition to the above described arguments, this function can take a data keyword argument. If such a data argument is given, the following arguments are replaced by data[<arg>]:

• All arguments with the following names: 'where', 'x', 'y1', 'y2'.

Objects passed as data must support item access (data[<arg>]) and membership test (<arg> in data).

Examples using matplotlib.axes.Axes.fill_between