from matplotlib.matlab import * delta = 0.025 x = y = arange(-3.0, 3.0, delta) X, Y = meshgrid(x, y) Z1 = bivariate_normal(X, Y, 1.0, 1.0, 0.0, 0.0) Z2 = bivariate_normal(X, Y, 1.5, 0.5, 1, 1) # difference of Gaussians im = imshow(Z2-Z1, interpolation='bilinear') axis('off') show()