Create 2D bar graphs in different planes#

importmatplotlib.pyplotasplt
importnumpyasnp
# Fixing random state for reproducibility
np.random.seed (19680801)
fig = plt.figure ()
ax = fig.add_subplot (projection='3d')
colors = ['r', 'g', 'b', 'y']
yticks = [3, 2, 1, 0]
for c , k in zip(colors , yticks ):
 # Generate the random data for the y=k 'layer'.
 xs = np.arange (20)
 ys = np.random.rand (20)
 # You can provide either a single color or an array with the same length as
 # xs and ys. To demonstrate this, we color the first bar of each set cyan.
 cs = [c ] * len(xs )
 cs [0] = 'c'
 # Plot the bar graph given by xs and ys on the plane y=k with 80% opacity.
 ax.bar (xs , ys , zs=k , zdir='y', color=cs , alpha=0.8)
ax.set_xlabel ('X')
ax.set_ylabel ('Y')
ax.set_zlabel ('Z')
# On the y-axis let's only label the discrete values that we have data for.
ax.set_yticks (yticks )
plt.show ()

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