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SqrtStretch

class astropy.visualization.SqrtStretch[source] [edit on github]

Bases: astropy.visualization.BaseStretch

A square root stretch.

The stretch is given by:

y = \sqrt{x}

Attributes Summary

inverse

Methods Summary

__call__(values[, out, clip]) Transform values using this stretch.

Attributes Documentation

inverse

Methods Documentation

__call__(values, out=None, clip=True)[source] [edit on github]

Transform values using this stretch.

Parameters:

values : ndarray or list

The input values, which should already be normalized to the [0:1] range.

out : ndarray, optional

If specified, the output values will be placed in this array (typically used for in-place calculations).

clip : bool, optional

If True (default), values outside the [0:1] range are clipped to the [0:1] range.

Returns:

new_values : ndarray

The transformed values.

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