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Switch to any value % from this page to resize cheat sheet text: % www.emerson.emory.edu/services/latex/latex_169.html \footnotesize % Small font. \begin{multicols*}{3} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{X} \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{numpy.ndarray}} \tn \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{import numpy as np \newline \newline \# creating arrays \newline arr = np.array({[}1, 2, 3{]}) \# 1D array, shape (3,) \newline arr = np.array({[}{[}1, 2{]}, {[}3, 4{]}{]}) \# 2D array, shape (2, 2) \newline arr = np.zeros((rows, cols)) \# 2D array of zeros \newline arr = np.empty((rows, cols, channels)) \# 3D array uninitialized \newline \newline \# inspecting arrays \newline arr.shape \# dimensions e.g. (480, 640, 3) \newline arr.dtype \# data type e.g. uint8, float32 \newline arr.ndim \# number of dimensions} \tn \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}-} \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{The core data structure in NumPy — a multi-dimensional array of elements all of the same type. \newline More efficient than Python lists for numerical data as elements are stored contiguously in memory. \newline Shape describes the dimensions — (rows, cols) for 2D, (rows, cols, channels) for 3D.} \tn \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}-} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{X} \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{numpy.dtype}} \tn \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{import numpy as np \newline \newline \# common dtypes \newline np.dtype(np.uint8) \# unsigned 8-bit integer (0 to 255) \newline np.dtype(np.int8) \# signed 8-bit integer (-128 to 127) \newline np.dtype(np.uint16) \# unsigned 16-bit integer (0 to 65535) \newline np.dtype(np.int16) \# signed 16-bit integer (-32768 to 32767) \newline np.dtype(np.int32) \# signed 32-bit integer \newline np.dtype(np.float32) \# 32-bit floating point \newline np.dtype(np.float64) \# 64-bit floating point \newline \newline \# checking dtype \newline arr = np.array({[}1, 2, 3{]}, dtype=np.float32) \newline arr.dtype \# float32 \newline arr.itemsize \# bytes per element → 4} \tn \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}-} \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{Describes the data type of elements stored in a numpy.ndarray. \newline Common types are uint8 for images (0-255), float32 for floating point, and int32 for integers. \newline The dtype determines how many bytes each element takes and how values are interpreted.} \tn \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}-} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{X} \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{numpy.uint8}} \tn \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{import numpy as np \newline \newline arr = np.array({[}0, 128, 255{]}, dtype=np.uint8) \# valid values \newline arr.dtype \# uint8 \newline arr.itemsize \# 1 byte per element \newline \newline \# wrapping behaviour — values overflow silently \newline np.uint8(255) + np.uint8(1) \# returns 0, not 256 \newline \newline \# common usage — converting to uint8 for image saving \newline arr = np.clip(arr, 0, 255).astype(np.uint8) \# safe conversion} \tn \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}-} \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{An unsigned 8-bit integer type commonly used for image data. \newline Can hold values from 0 to 255 — exactly the range of a single colour channel in an image. \newline Values that exceed 255 wrap around rather than raising an error — a common source of bugs.} \tn \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}-} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} % That's all folks \end{multicols*} \end{document}