[Matplotlib-users] status of 3d plotting

[Stefan v. d. W. <st...@su...>]

Hi all,

I am trying to get the examples from
http://www.scipy.org/Cookbook/Matplotlib/mplot3D
to work.

I found that the 3D code is already included in matplotlib (SVN
version), but that it does not work:

- axes3d.py makes use of pylab, but it is not imported.

- text_update_coords in axis3d.py refers to self._mytext.foo, but
  TextWithDash has been updated to use the form Text.foo(self,...)
  instead.

- The TextWithDash class's doesn't have a_twd_window_extent
  property. Instead of assigning it in update_coords, it should be
  assigned in __init__.

- When working with matrices, the following occurs:

  def bar(self,M=3DNone):
	M =3D somematrix or M

  which is not allowed.  It should be

        if nx.any(somematrix): M =3D somematrix

But, after fixing all these problems, I still can't get it to plot.
It might be worth including surface.py in the examples directory, as a
test, to guarantee that the 3D code gets updated with the rest.

It could be that I am missing something completely obvious -- I'd
appreciate any help in getting it running!

Cheers
St=E9fan