Reading and displaying images

Matplotlib.pyplot has features that enable us to read .jpeg and .png images and covert them to pixel format to display as images.

Getting ready

Import the required library:

 import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

How to do it...

Here is the code block that reads a JPEG file as a pixel-valued list and displays it as an image on the screen:

1. Read the image louvre.jpg into a three-dimensional array (color images have three channels, whereas black and white images have one channel only):

image = plt.imread('louvre.jpg')

2. Print the dimensions...