From a87bcb2d7325925ddf2c68da0aab37d3cd652c55 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tony S Yu <tsyu80@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2012 00:21:47 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] DOC: demonstrate where the template is matched in an image.

---
 doc/examples/plot_template.py | 33 ++++++++++++++++++---------------
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/examples/plot_template.py b/doc/examples/plot_template.py
index aa8a1caa..fe6549f6 100644
--- a/doc/examples/plot_template.py
+++ b/doc/examples/plot_template.py
@@ -9,7 +9,9 @@ techniques to find instances of the "target image" in the "test image".
 
 The output of ``match_template`` is an image where we can easily identify peaks
 by eye. We mark the locations of matches (red dots), which are detected using
-a simple peak extraction algorithm.
+a simple peak extraction algorithm. Note that the peaks in the output of
+``match_template`` correspond to the origin (i.e. top-left corner) of the
+template.
 """
 
 import numpy as np
@@ -40,24 +42,25 @@ if len(found_positions) > 2:
 
 x_found, y_found = np.transpose(found_positions)
 
+
+fig, (ax0, ax1, ax2) = plt.subplots(ncols=3, figsize=(8, 3))
 plt.gray()
 
-plt.subplot(1, 3, 1)
-plt.imshow(target)
-plt.title("Target image")
-plt.axis('off')
+ax0.imshow(target)
+ax0.set_title("Target image")
 
-plt.subplot(1, 3, 2)
-plt.imshow(image)
-plt.title("Test image")
-plt.axis('off')
+ax1.imshow(image)
+ax1.plot(x_found, y_found, 'ro', alpha=0.5)
+ax1.set_title("Test image")
+ax1.autoscale(tight=True)
 
-plt.subplot(1, 3, 3)
-plt.imshow(result)
-plt.plot(x_found, y_found, 'ro')
-plt.title("Result from\n``match_template``")
-plt.autoscale(tight=True)
-plt.axis('off')
+ax2.imshow(result)
+ax2.plot(x_found, y_found, 'ro', alpha=0.5)
+ax2.set_title("Result from\n``match_template``")
+ax2.autoscale(tight=True)
+
+for ax in (ax0, ax1, ax2):
+    ax.axis('off')
 
 plt.show()