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    "<div class=\"contentcontainer med left\" style=\"margin-left: -50px;\">\n",
    "<dl class=\"dl-horizontal\">\n",
    "  <dt>Title</dt> <dd> QuadMesh Element</dd>\n",
    "  <dt>Dependencies</dt> <dd>Matplotlib</dd>\n",
    "  <dt>Backends</dt> <dd><a href='./QuadMesh.ipynb'>Matplotlib</a></dd> <dd><a href='../bokeh/QuadMesh.ipynb'>Bokeh</a></dd>\n",
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    "import numpy as np\n",
    "import holoviews as hv\n",
    "hv.extension('matplotlib')"
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   "source": [
    "The basic ``QuadMesh`` is a 2D grid of bins specified as x-/y-values specifying a regular sampling or edges, with arbitrary sampling and an associated 2D array containing the bin values. Here is a simple ``QuadMesh`` with logarithmic sampling along the 'x' dimensions:"
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    "n = 8  # Number of bins in each direction\n",
    "xs = np.logspace(1, 3, n)\n",
    "ys = np.linspace(1, 10, n)\n",
    "zs = np.arange((n-1)**2).reshape(n-1, n-1)\n",
    "hv.QuadMesh((xs, ys, zs))"
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   "source": [
    "The coordinate system of a ``QuadMesh`` is defined by the bin edges, therefore any index falling into a binned region will return the appropriate value. As the bin edges have continuous values, you can use non-linear axes such as log axes:"
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    "%%opts QuadMesh [xticks=[10, 100,1000]] QuadMesh.LogScale [logx=True]\n",
    "hv.QuadMesh((xs, ys, zs), group='LinearScale') + hv.QuadMesh((xs, ys, zs), group='LogScale')"
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   "source": [
    "Unlike ``Image`` objects, slices must be inclusive of the bin edges but otherwise the slicing semantics are the same. The reason for this difference is that ``QuadMesh`` is really a two-dimensional histogram and when slicing, you only want to see the bins that fall within the specified slice ranges.\n",
    "\n",
    "In the next example, we specify a slice along the x- and y-axis to extract the lower corner and we set the z-dimension range to maintain the full color range of the colormap:"
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    "qmesh = hv.QuadMesh((xs, ys, zs))\n",
    "qmesh[20:400, :8].redim.range(z=qmesh.range('z'))"
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   "source": [
    "To use an interactive hover tool to inspect the sample values, you can use ``QuadMesh`` with the hover tool in the [Bokeh backend](../bokeh/QuadMesh.ipynb).\n",
    "\n",
    "For full documentation and the available style and plot options, use ``hv.help(hv.QuadMesh).``"
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