From c6dff6942d88f54182797f10862d5e2568f11399 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Juan Nunez-Iglesias <juan.n@unimelb.edu.au>
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2015 22:26:55 +1100
Subject: [PATCH] Don't create new plot automatically

This behavior is a bit too magical and may interfere with creation of
interactive ImageCollection browsers, for example.
---
 skimage/io/_plugins/matplotlib_plugin.py | 2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/skimage/io/_plugins/matplotlib_plugin.py b/skimage/io/_plugins/matplotlib_plugin.py
index 3038c59b..fb43fbf8 100644
--- a/skimage/io/_plugins/matplotlib_plugin.py
+++ b/skimage/io/_plugins/matplotlib_plugin.py
@@ -136,8 +136,6 @@ def imshow(im, *args, **kwargs):
     ax_im : `matplotlib.pyplot.AxesImage`
         The `AxesImage` object returned by `plt.imshow`.
     """
-    if plt.gca().has_data():
-        plt.figure()
     lo, hi, cmap = _get_display_range(im)
     kwargs.setdefault('interpolation', 'nearest')
     kwargs.setdefault('cmap', cmap)