`xi` repeated to fill the matrix along the first dimension for `x1`, the second for `x2` and so on. Notes ----- This function supports both indexing conventions through the indexing keyword argument. Giving the string 'ij' returns a meshgrid with matrix indexing, while 'xy' returns a meshgrid with Cartesian indexing. In the 2-D case with inputs of length M and N, the outputs are of shape (N, M) for 'xy' indexing and (M, N) for 'ij' indexing. In the 3-D case with inputs of length M, N and P, outputs are of shape (N, M, P) for 'xy' indexing and (M, N, P) for 'ij' indexing. The difference is illustrated by the following code snippet:: xv, yv = np.meshgrid(x, y, indexing='ij') for i in range(nx): for j in range(ny): # treat xv[i,j], yv[i,j] xv, yv = np.meshgrid(x, y, indexing='xy') for i in range(nx): for j in range(ny): # treat xv[j,i], yv[j,i] In the 1-D and 0-D case, the indexing and sparse keywords have no effect. See Also -------- mgrid : Construct a multi-dimensional "meshgrid" using indexing notation. ogrid : Construct an open multi-dimensional "meshgrid" using indexing notation. :ref:`how-to-index` Examples -------- >>> import numpy as np >>> nx, ny = (3, 2) >>> x = np.linspace(0, 1, nx) >>> y = np.linspace(0, 1, ny) >>> xv, yv = np.meshgrid(x, y) >>> xv array([[0. , 0.5, 1. ], [0. , 0.5, 1. ]]) >>> yv array([[0., 0., 0.], [1., 1., 1.]]) The result of `meshgrid` is a coordinate grid: >>> import matplotlib.pyplot as plt >>> plt.plot(xv, yv, marker='o', color='k', linestyle='none') >>> plt.show() You can create sparse output arrays to save memory and computation time. >>> xv, yv = np.meshgrid(x, y, sparse=True) >>> xv array([[0. , 0.5, 1. ]]) >>> yv array([[0.], [1.]]) `meshgrid` is very useful to evaluate functions on a grid. If the function depends on all coordinates, both dense and sparse outputs can be used. >>> x = np.linspace(-5, 5, 101) >>> y = np.linspace(-5, 5, 101) >>> # full coordinate arrays >>> xx, yy = np.meshgrid(x, y) >>> zz = np.sqrt(xx**2 + yy**2) >>> xx.shape, yy.shape, zz.shape ((101, 101), (101, 101), (101, 101)) >>> # sparse coordinate arrays >>> xs, ys = np.meshgrid(x, y, sparse=True) >>> zs = np.sqrt(xs**2 + ys**2) >>> xs.shape, ys.shape, zs.shape ((1, 101), (101, 1), (101, 101)) >>> np.array_equal(zz, zs) True >>> h = plt.contourf(x, y, zs) >>> plt.axis('scaled') >>> plt.colorbar() >>> plt.show() )