Re: [Matplotlib-users] Questions about 3D plotting

[Darren D. <dsd...@gm...>]

On Wednesday 09 July 2008 10:35:55 am anirudh vij wrote:
> Hi,
>
> First off, I'd like to congratulate the devs who wrote the 3D plotting
> module. Its great and fits a lot of my plotting needs without
> resorting to vtk, mayavi etc.
>
> But I've had some issues with 3D plots

I'm sorry to disappoint, but 3D plotting has been unsupported for a long time 
and was recently removed from the mpl codebase.

> 1. If i do a
> ----
> import pylab as p
> import matplotlib.axes3d as p3
> fig=p.figure()
> ax = p3.Axes3D(fig)
> ax.scatter3D(ravel(x),ravel(y),ravel(z))
> ax.set_xlabel('X')
> ax.set_ylabel('Y')
> ax.set_zlabel('Z')
> p.show()
> ----
>
> then things work well.

probably because you have an old version of axes3d.py in your installation 
directory...

> But if I do an "from pylab import *",
> the plot command does'nt work. Any ideas?

... but pylab.py knows that we dropped 3d support so it doesnt try to import 
it anymore. 

Darren