kittyplot
Inline graphics backend for matplotlib. Renders plots directly in your terminal.
Supports the Kitty graphics protocol (Kitty, Ghostty, WezTerm) with automatic tmux passthrough.
Install
uv add kittyplot
Usage
Set the backend via MPLBACKEND environment variable or in code:
import matplotlib
matplotlib.use('module://kittyplot')
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
plt.plot([1, 2, 3], [1, 4, 9])
plt.show()
Animation
Animations work automatically with FuncAnimation:
import matplotlib
matplotlib.use('module://kittyplot')
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from matplotlib.animation import FuncAnimation
import numpy as np
x = np.linspace(0, 2 * np.pi, 100)
fig, ax = plt.subplots()
line, = ax.plot(x, np.sin(x))
def update(frame):
line.set_ydata(np.sin(x + frame / 5.0))
return line,
anim = FuncAnimation(fig, update, frames=200, interval=50, blit=False)
plt.show()
Press Ctrl-C to exit the animation. Set fig.canvas.fullscreen = True
before creating the animation to use an alternate screen buffer.
tmux
Requires allow-passthrough in your tmux config:
set -g allow-passthrough on
Images use kitty virtual placements (unicode placeholders) so they anchor to the text buffer and scroll naturally within tmux panes.
Examples
Run with uv run:
uv run examples/simple.py
uv run examples/subplots.py
uv run examples/animation.py
uv run examples/lorenz.py
uv run examples/ggplot.py
License
Apache-2.0
1 maintainer
Metadata
1 maintainer
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