Re: [Matplotlib-users] Displaying a cube with matplotlib

[John H. <jdh...@ac...>]

>>>>> "Nils" == Nils Wagner <nw...@me...> writes:

    Nils> Hi all, I have discretized the surface of a cube with a
    Nils> number of nodes.  The coordinates of these nodes are stored
    Nils> in a two dimensional array x.  shape(x) (3, 96)

    Nils> Each column refers to a node while the rows contain the
    Nils> x,y,z coordinates.  Is it possible to visualize such a
    Nils> three-dimensional grid with matplotlib ?

Hey Nils,

You could plot these as a 3D scatter plot using mplot3 which is a
matplotlib 3D extensions module

  http://www.scipy.org/Cookbook/Matplotlib/mplot3D

but you may be better off with a dedicated 3D lib such as VTK/Mayavi2
depending on your requirements.

JDH