Fashion MNIST images color

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Hello. Actually it’s not so important but I faced a weird thing in Beyond Hello World notebook. When I ran the code

import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

# You can put between 0 to 59999 here
index = 0

# Set number of characters per row when printing
np.set_printoptions(linewidth=320)

# Print the label and image
print(f'LABEL: {training_labels[index]}')
print(f'\nIMAGE PIXEL ARRAY:\n {training_images[index]}')

# Visualize the image
plt.imshow(training_images[index])

I got colored picture but it had to be gray, wasn’t it?
ankle_boot

Here is IMAGE PIXEL ARRAY and it looks the same as in the lesson video:
[[ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0]
[ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0]
[ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0]
[ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 13 73 0 0 1 4 0 0 0 0 1 1 0]
[ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 36 136 127 62 54 0 0 0 1 3 4 0 0 3]
[ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 0 102 204 176 134 144 123 23 0 0 0 0 12 10 0]
[ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 155 236 207 178 107 156 161 109 64 23 77 130 72 15]
[ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 69 207 223 218 216 216 163 127 121 122 146 141 88 172 66]
[ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 200 232 232 233 229 223 223 215 213 164 127 123 196 229 0]
[ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 183 225 216 223 228 235 227 224 222 224 221 223 245 173 0]
[ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 193 228 218 213 198 180 212 210 211 213 223 220 243 202 0]
[ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 0 12 219 220 212 218 192 169 227 208 218 224 212 226 197 209 52]
[ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 0 99 244 222 220 218 203 198 221 215 213 222 220 245 119 167 56]
[ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 55 236 228 230 228 240 232 213 218 223 234 217 217 209 92 0]
[ 0 0 1 4 6 7 2 0 0 0 0 0 237 226 217 223 222 219 222 221 216 223 229 215 218 255 77 0]
[ 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 62 145 204 228 207 213 221 218 208 211 218 224 223 219 215 224 244 159 0]
[ 0 0 0 0 18 44 82 107 189 228 220 222 217 226 200 205 211 230 224 234 176 188 250 248 233 238 215 0]
[ 0 57 187 208 224 221 224 208 204 214 208 209 200 159 245 193 206 223 255 255 221 234 221 211 220 232 246 0]
[ 3 202 228 224 221 211 211 214 205 205 205 220 240 80 150 255 229 221 188 154 191 210 204 209 222 228 225 0]
[ 98 233 198 210 222 229 229 234 249 220 194 215 217 241 65 73 106 117 168 219 221 215 217 223 223 224 229 29]
[ 75 204 212 204 193 205 211 225 216 185 197 206 198 213 240 195 227 245 239 223 218 212 209 222 220 221 230 67]
[ 48 203 183 194 213 197 185 190 194 192 202 214 219 221 220 236 225 216 199 206 186 181 177 172 181 205 206 115]
[ 0 122 219 193 179 171 183 196 204 210 213 207 211 210 200 196 194 191 195 191 198 192 176 156 167 177 210 92]
[ 0 0 74 189 212 191 175 172 175 181 185 188 189 188 193 198 204 209 210 210 211 188 188 194 192 216 170 0]
[ 2 0 0 0 66 200 222 237 239 242 246 243 244 221 220 193 191 179 182 182 181 176 166 168 99 58 0 0]
[ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 40 61 44 72 41 35 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0]
[ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0]
[ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0]]

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Why do you think it should be gray? RBG includes 3 layers with each pixel taking a value from 0 to 255.

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Looks to me like that’s using a color heatmap, rather than a grey map. Likely it’s some default setting in the plotting function.

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@gent.spah @TMosh thank you for your replies. I watched the video “Walk through a Notebook for computer vision” again and noticed the code

plt.imshow(training_images[index], cmap='Greys')

Now it’s clear. Sorry for disturbing, next time I’ll be more attentive.

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