Thread: [Matplotlib-users] 3D surface plot with box frame

I’m trying to plot a 3d surface with a box frame around both sides (see example in the following link)
comparable example:
http://cloud.originlab.com/www/products/images2/3DGraph_ColorSurface.png
I made the axis panes white and disabled the grid which gets me 80% of the way. I don’t see anything obvious for showing additional axis lines to make the rest of the box (if such an option exists).
Any suggestions/hacks are welcome!
Thanks, Andy
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Andrew M.C. Dawes
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Pacific University
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If you supply the code you did to get where you got, I have a rough idea
how to get what you need. Essentially, you need to set the edgecolor of the
panes, I think. I have to dig a bit in the code to see how to do that,
though.
Cheers!
Ben Root
On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 7:42 PM, Dawes, Andrew M. <da...@pa...>
wrote:
> I’m trying to plot a 3d surface with a box frame around both sides (see
> example in the following link)
>
> comparable example:
> http://cloud.originlab.com/www/products/images2/3DGraph_ColorSurface.png
>
> I made the axis panes white and disabled the grid which gets me 80% of
> the way. I don’t see anything obvious for showing additional axis lines to
> make the rest of the box (if such an option exists).
>
> Any suggestions/hacks are welcome!
>
> Thanks, Andy
>
>
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> Andrew M.C. Dawes
> Associate Professor of Physics
> Pacific University
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Thanks Ben for the tip on edgecolor. I’ve got what I wanted now and since it took some digging and tinkering I figured I’d write it up and share the solution with anyone who may want it:
https://dawes.wordpress.com/2014/06/27/publication-ready-3d-figures-from-matplotlib/
and full test-case script here:
https://github.com/DawesLab/Qfunction/blob/master/TestQfunc.py
This creates two surface plots with contours below them, labels placed tight to the axes, and some other bits that make it work well for publishing in a two-column journal (black & white, color online).
I’m happy to format and post this to the official documentation if that would be helpful.
Best,
Andy
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Andrew M.C. Dawes
Associate Professor of Physics
Pacific University
amcdawes.com
On June 26, 2014 at 6:27:10 PM, Benjamin Root (ben...@ou...<mailto:ben...@ou...>) wrote:
If you supply the code you did to get where you got, I have a rough idea how to get what you need. Essentially, you need to set the edgecolor of the panes, I think. I have to dig a bit in the code to see how to do that, though.
Cheers!
Ben Root
On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 7:42 PM, Dawes, Andrew M. <da...@pa...<mailto:da...@pa...>> wrote:
I’m trying to plot a 3d surface with a box frame around both sides (see example in the following link)
comparable example:
http://cloud.originlab.com/www/products/images2/3DGraph_ColorSurface.png
I made the axis panes white and disabled the grid which gets me 80% of the way. I don’t see anything obvious for showing additional axis lines to make the rest of the box (if such an option exists).
Any suggestions/hacks are welcome!
Thanks, Andy
--
Andrew M.C. Dawes
Associate Professor of Physics
Pacific University
amcdawes.com<http://amcdawes.com>
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"Dawes, Andrew M." <da...@pa...> wrote:
> Any suggestions/hacks are welcome!
Mayavi (a VTK-based plotting tool) is much better for 3D plots:
http://docs.enthought.com/mayavi/mayavi/auto/examples.html
http://docs.enthought.com/mayavi/mayavi/mlab.html
Sturla