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On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 1:58 PM, Petro <x....@gm...> wrote:
> Hi all,
> I try to make a figure with 6 3d subplots.
> My problem is that there is a lot white space around. I tried to play
> with subplot_adjust, but without much success.
> Any hints?
> Thanks.
>
>
If I remember correctly, what happens is that the SubAxes class over-rides
the rect argument to the Axes initializer because it is the position of the
global axes box in figure coordinates (and therefore, for multiple
subplots, it automatically determines the figure coordinates for each
subplot). Unfortunately, it assumes a certain amount of margins to leave,
which is applicible for 2d plots, but not for 3d plots.
I would bet that there is some way to mess around with the default gridspec
parameters, but that is not in my area of expertise. If anybody who knows
this sort of stuff can give me a clue about it, I would love to update
mplot3d to have a better default subplot appearance.
Cheers!
Ben Root

Hi all,
I try to make a figure with 6 3d subplots.
My problem is that there is a lot white space around. I tried to play
with subplot_adjust, but without much success.
Any hints?
Thanks.

Hi,
is it possible to create a three-dimensional plot with several surface
plots with correct z-ordering? The naive approach via 
import pylab
from mpl_toolkits.mplot3d import Axes3D
pylab.close('all')
fig=pylab.figure()
ax=fig.add_subplot(111, projection='3d')
x=pylab.linspace(-8, 8, 128)
y=pylab.linspace(-8, 8, 128)
X, Y=pylab.meshgrid(x, y)
ax.plot_surface(X, Y, X**2+Y**2)
ax.plot_surface(X, Y, 100*pylab.ones_like(X), color='r')
pylab.draw()
pylab.show()
does not work. One surface plot is hiding the other one completely. I
am using Matplotlib version 1.1.1. May be one can combine the two 
Poly3DCollections generated by plot_surface into a single one. Any
hints?
	Heiko
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