# Plot the magnitude and phase of ``exp(x)`` in the complex plane: import matplotlib.pyplot as plt x = np.linspace(-2*np.pi, 2*np.pi, 100) xx = x + 1j * x[:, np.newaxis] # a + ib over complex plane out = np.exp(xx) plt.subplot(121) plt.imshow(np.abs(out), extent=[-2*np.pi, 2*np.pi, -2*np.pi, 2*np.pi]) plt.title('Magnitude of exp(x)') plt.subplot(122) plt.imshow(np.angle(out), extent=[-2*np.pi, 2*np.pi, -2*np.pi, 2*np.pi]) plt.title('Phase (angle) of exp(x)') plt.show()