NumPy: dstack() function

numpy.dstack() function

The dstack() is used to stack arrays in sequence depth wise (along third axis).
This is equivalent to concatenation along the third axis after 2-D arrays of shape (M,N) have been reshaped to (M,N,1) and 1-D arrays of shape (N,) have been reshaped to (1,N,1). Rebuilds arrays divided by dsplit.
This function makes most sense for arrays with up to 3 dimensions. For instance, for pixel-data with a height (first axis), width (second axis), and r/g/b channels (third axis). The functions concatenate, stack and block provide more general stacking and concatenation operations.

Syntax:

numpy.dstack(tup)

Version: 1.15.0

Parameter:

Return value:

stacked : ndarray The array formed by stacking the given arrays, will be at least 3-D.

Example-1: numpy.dstack()

>>> import numpy as np
>>> x = np.array((3, 5, 7))
>>> y = np.array((5, 7, 9))
>>> np.dstack((x,y))
array([[[3, 5],
        [5, 7],
        [7, 9]]])

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Example-2: numpy.dstack()

>>> import numpy as np
>>> x = np.array([[3], [5], [7]])
>>> y = np.array([[5], [7], [9]])
>>> np.dstack((x,y))
array([[[3, 5]],

       [[5, 7]],

       [[7, 9]]])

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