Re: [Matplotlib-users] plot3D in subplot

[Bing <bin...@gm...>]

Hi John,
   Thanks for the hint.  I am able to pass the rect returned by
Subplot.get_position().

Bing

On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 9:27 PM, John Hunter <jd...@gm...> wrote:

> 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
>