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I want to use python to plot some specific points in 3D given their coordinates. I want to use the matplotlib library but I'm not sure if there's an easy way of doing this.

Let's say I want to plot the following points: (1,0,0) (2,2,2) (-1,2,0) (1,2,1)

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  • See https://matplotlib.org/mpl_toolkits/mplot3d/tutorial.html#mplot3d-tutorial – Bart Jun 13 '17 at 08:03

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Since some of the examples around are overly complicated, a minimal example for a 3D scatter plot in matplotlib would look like this:

from mpl_toolkits.mplot3d import Axes3D
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

fig, ax = plt.subplots(subplot_kw=dict(projection='3d') )

points = [(1,0,0), (2,2,2), (-1,2,0), (1,2,1)]
x,y,z = zip(*points)
ax.scatter(x,y,z, s=100)
plt.show()

enter image description here

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