diff --git a/examples/svm/plot_separating_hyperplane.py b/examples/svm/plot_separating_hyperplane.py
index fafadb2d381d0..9fdbcc785ed2b 100644
--- a/examples/svm/plot_separating_hyperplane.py
+++ b/examples/svm/plot_separating_hyperplane.py
@@ -16,10 +16,10 @@
 
 
 # we create 40 separable points
-X, y = make_blobs(n_samples=40, centers=2, random_state=12, cluster_std=0.35)
+X, y = make_blobs(n_samples=40, centers=2, random_state=6)
 
-# fit the model
-clf = svm.SVC(kernel='linear')
+# fit the model, don't regularize for illustration purposes
+clf = svm.SVC(kernel='linear', C=1000)
 clf.fit(X, y)
 
 plt.scatter(X[:, 0], X[:, 1], c=y, s=30, cmap=plt.cm.Paired)
@@ -42,3 +42,4 @@
 # plot support vectors
 ax.scatter(clf.support_vectors_[:, 0], clf.support_vectors_[:, 1], s=100,
            linewidth=1, facecolors='none')
+plt.show()