Re: [Matplotlib-users] plot3D in subplot

[John H. <jd...@gm...>]

On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 4:08 PM, Bing <bin...@gm...> wrote:
> Hello,
>    Could anyone tell me how to use plot3D in a subplot?
> I looked at the examples at
>   http://www.scipy.org/Cookbook/Matplotlib/mplot3D
> But seems to me that matplotlib.axes3d.Axes3D can
> be only constructed from a Figure instance but
> not from a Subplot instance.

You should be able to set the rect keyword argument of the Axes3D constructor:

  fig=p.figure()
  ax = pylab.Axes3D(fig, rect=[0.2, 0.6, 0.7, 0.3])

where rect is [left, bottom, width, height] in fractions of the figure 0..1

A subplot is just an axes with a rect set so that it lives on a regular grid.

Note though that the 3D stuff is experimental, slow, somewhat buggy
and not supported, so we won't be able to help much with real
problems.

JDH