Axes Grid2

Grid of images with shared xaxis and yaxis.

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np

from matplotlib import cbook
from mpl_toolkits.axes_grid1 import ImageGrid


def add_inner_title(ax, title, loc, **kwargs):
    from matplotlib.offsetbox import AnchoredText
    from matplotlib.patheffects import withStroke
    prop = dict(path_effects=[withStroke(foreground='w', linewidth=3)],
                size=plt.rcParams['legend.fontsize'])
    at = AnchoredText(title, loc=loc, prop=prop,
                      pad=0., borderpad=0.5,
                      frameon=False, **kwargs)
    ax.add_artist(at)
    return at


fig = plt.figure(figsize=(6, 6))

# Prepare images
Z = cbook.get_sample_data("axes_grid/bivariate_normal.npy")
extent = (-3, 4, -4, 3)
ZS = [Z[i::3, :] for i in range(3)]
extent = extent[0], extent[1]/3., extent[2], extent[3]

# *** Demo 1: colorbar at each axes ***
grid = ImageGrid(
    # 211 = at the position of fig.add_subplot(211)
    fig, 211, nrows_ncols=(1, 3), axes_pad=0.05, label_mode="1", share_all=True,
    cbar_location="top", cbar_mode="each", cbar_size="7%", cbar_pad="1%")
grid[0].set(xticks=[-2, 0], yticks=[-2, 0, 2])

for i, (ax, z) in enumerate(zip(grid, ZS)):
    im = ax.imshow(z, origin="lower", extent=extent)
    cb = ax.cax.colorbar(im)
    # Changing the colorbar ticks
    if i in [1, 2]:
        cb.set_ticks([-1, 0, 1])

for ax, im_title in zip(grid, ["Image 1", "Image 2", "Image 3"]):
    add_inner_title(ax, im_title, loc='lower left')

# *** Demo 2: shared colorbar ***
grid2 = ImageGrid(
    fig, 212, nrows_ncols=(1, 3), axes_pad=0.05, label_mode="1", share_all=True,
    cbar_location="right", cbar_mode="single", cbar_size="10%", cbar_pad=0.05)
grid2[0].set(xlabel="X", ylabel="Y", xticks=[-2, 0], yticks=[-2, 0, 2])

clim = (np.min(ZS), np.max(ZS))
for ax, z in zip(grid2, ZS):
    im = ax.imshow(z, clim=clim, origin="lower", extent=extent)

# With cbar_mode="single", cax attribute of all axes are identical.
ax.cax.colorbar(im)

for ax, im_title in zip(grid2, ["(a)", "(b)", "(c)"]):
    add_inner_title(ax, im_title, loc='upper left')

plt.show()