a 3D plotting toolkit which ships with the matplotlib Python plotting library.
The mplot3d toolkit adds simple 3D plotting capabilities to the matplotlib python plotting library.
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Plotting a series of 2D plots projected in 3D in a perspectival way
I'd like to plot a likelihood distribution, basically an NxT matrix, where each row represents a distribution on some variable in each timestep t (t=0...T), so I could visualize the trajectory which a Maximum Likelihood Estimation would yield.
I…
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How to plot spherical polygons in Python using matplotlib?
I have a numpy array vertices of shape (N,3) containing the N vertices of a spherical polygon in 3D, i.e. all these points lie on the surface of a sphere. The center and radius of the sphere is known (take the unit sphere for example). I would like…
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Artifacts in a filled contour plot on 3D axes
I have a frustrating problem that only manifests itself when plotting filled contour plots on 3D axes and only in certain situations.
Here is an example of the issue I am experiencing:
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These are the same data at different contouring…
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mayavi 3d object in matplotlib Axes3D
I sometimes find myself frustrated with the lack of certain rendering features in matplotlib's mplot3d. In most of these cases, I do find that I can get what I want in mayavi, but still the matplotlib 3d axes are preferable, if only for aesthetics,…
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Matplotlib 3D pan and zoom not working
When i try to use the pan and zoom tool, the plot rotates on left click and zooms from the center on right click. zooming the plot by making a rectangular selection is not working.
Has somebody a clue how this problem can be solved?
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How to visualize 3D delaunay triangulation
I have a set of 3D points which I've used scipy.spatial.Delaunay to do the triangulation / tetrahedralization. I now have a set of unique faces of all of the tetrahedra, and would like to visualize these in 3D.
Are there any Python libraries (or…
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Matplotlib 3D plot - 2D format for input data?
I am plotting a function of two parameters with matplotlib. I copied an example in matplotlib tutorial and transformed with my own input data: vectors X and Y (equally spaces numbers in -3:3) and Z=peaks(X,Y) with peaks a function that I defined…
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How to change the 3d axis settings
I have managed to create this graph using matplotlib. I would like to remove the 0.2, 0.4, 0.6.. from the axis named B and change the axis interval from 200 to 100 in the axis named A. I have been trying to do this for quite sometime now...Any…
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Remove border from matplotlib 3D pane
I would like to remove the borders from my 3D scene as described below. Any idea how to do that?
Here the code to generate the current scene:
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from mpl_toolkits.mplot3d import Axes3D
# Create…
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Changing the colorbar limits in a mpl_toolkits.mplot3d plot
I am trying to change the clim in a mpl_toolkits.mplot3d plot using this method:
fig = plt.figure(figsize=(10,10))
ax = fig.add_subplot(111, projection='3d')
p = ax.scatter(x_, y_, z_, c='gray', s=0.25, alpha='0.5')
cbar =…
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Plot a 1D gaussian distribution on a plane in 3D plot python
I have the following code and along plots it generates. My aim is to plot on the second figure (right) a 1D Gaussian Distribution on the red plane shown.
The aim of this is to show that the overlap (which represents the conditional) is a Gaussian…
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Matplotlib Plot3D Surface/Line/Scatter plot how to define z-order
Preface: I am aware that matplotlib cannot deal with 3D occlusion and that for that type of issue I should use Mayavi. This is a different situation.
What I'm trying to achieve is to plot a line on top of a surface. The line is only on "this" side…
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How to plot a 3D histogram
I have three arrays and I am trying to make a 3D histogram.
x = [1, 2, 3, 2, 5, 2, 6, 8, 6, 7]
y = [10, 10, 20, 50, 20, 20, 30, 10, 40, 50, 60]
z = [105, 25, 26, 74, 39, 85, 74, 153, 52, 98]
Here's my attempt so far:
from mpl_toolkits.mplot3d…
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How to represent density information on a matplotlib 3-D scatter plot
I am trying to plot the r,g,b channels in an image as a 3-D scatter plot.
This works well when i have a black and white image as i get a scatter plot with just two distinct clusters at two ends of the scatter plot.
However for color images the…
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Change 3D background to black in matplotlib
I'm having trouble changing the background of my 3d graph to black. This is my current code. When I do set facecolor to black, it changes the inside of the graph to be grey, which is not what I want.
fig =…
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