.. DO NOT EDIT.
.. THIS FILE WAS AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED BY SPHINX-GALLERY.
.. TO MAKE CHANGES, EDIT THE SOURCE PYTHON FILE:
.. "auto_examples\create_signal\2D_image_stack.py"
.. LINE NUMBERS ARE GIVEN BELOW.

.. only:: html

    .. note::
        :class: sphx-glr-download-link-note

        :ref:`Go to the end <sphx_glr_download_auto_examples_create_signal_2D_image_stack.py>`
        to download the full example code.

.. rst-class:: sphx-glr-example-title

.. _sphx_glr_auto_examples_create_signal_2D_image_stack.py:


Creates a 4D image
==================

This example creates a 4D dataset, i.e. 2 navigation dimension and
2 signal dimension and plots it.

.. GENERATED FROM PYTHON SOURCE LINES 8-39



.. rst-class:: sphx-glr-horizontal


    *

      .. image-sg:: /auto_examples/create_signal/images/sphx_glr_2D_image_stack_001.png
         :alt: Random 2D image stack Navigator
         :srcset: /auto_examples/create_signal/images/sphx_glr_2D_image_stack_001.png
         :class: sphx-glr-multi-img

    *

      .. image-sg:: /auto_examples/create_signal/images/sphx_glr_2D_image_stack_002.png
         :alt: Random 2D image stack Signal
         :srcset: /auto_examples/create_signal/images/sphx_glr_2D_image_stack_002.png
         :class: sphx-glr-multi-img





.. code-block:: Python


    import numpy as np
    import hyperspy.api as hs

    # Create a 2D image stack with random data
    im = hs.signals.Signal2D(np.random.random((16, 16, 32, 32)))

    # Define the axis properties
    im.axes_manager.signal_axes[0].name = ''
    im.axes_manager.signal_axes[0].units = '1/nm'
    im.axes_manager.signal_axes[0].scale = 0.1
    im.axes_manager.signal_axes[0].offset = 0

    im.axes_manager.signal_axes[1].name = ''
    im.axes_manager.signal_axes[1].units = '1/nm'
    im.axes_manager.signal_axes[1].scale = 0.1
    im.axes_manager.signal_axes[1].offset = 0

    im.axes_manager.navigation_axes[0].name = 'X'
    im.axes_manager.navigation_axes[0].units = 'nm'
    im.axes_manager.navigation_axes[0].scale = 0.3
    im.axes_manager.navigation_axes[0].offset = 100

    im.axes_manager.navigation_axes[1].name = 'Y'
    im.axes_manager.navigation_axes[1].units = 'nm'
    im.axes_manager.navigation_axes[1].scale = 0.3
    im.axes_manager.navigation_axes[1].offset = 100

    # Give a title
    im.metadata.General.title = 'Random 2D image stack'

    im.plot()

.. rst-class:: sphx-glr-timing

   **Total running time of the script:** (0 minutes 0.604 seconds)


.. _sphx_glr_download_auto_examples_create_signal_2D_image_stack.py:

.. only:: html

  .. container:: sphx-glr-footer sphx-glr-footer-example

    .. container:: sphx-glr-download sphx-glr-download-jupyter

      :download:`Download Jupyter notebook: 2D_image_stack.ipynb <2D_image_stack.ipynb>`

    .. container:: sphx-glr-download sphx-glr-download-python

      :download:`Download Python source code: 2D_image_stack.py <2D_image_stack.py>`


.. only:: html

 .. rst-class:: sphx-glr-signature

    `Gallery generated by Sphinx-Gallery <https://sphinx-gallery.github.io>`_