[Matplotlib-users] How to create 3D plots?

[Alexander D. <ale...@go...>]

Hi,

I would like to create 3D plots. A search revealed the following page:

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

which explains to install  matplotlib version 0.99 to use the 3D code.
Unfortunately, after installingmatplotlib-0.99.1.1 (from
matplotlib-0.99.1.2.tar.gz) I am not able to use the 3D code. The
command that show that the correct version is used together with the
error is shown below.

Any idea how I can use this code? Do I have to downgrade to the 0.91.x
maintenance branch? Or do you suggest to use mayavi
(http://code.enthought.com/projects/mayavi/docs/development/html/mayavi/mlab.html)?
I also tried to install the latter, after 1 hour of installing code
and requirements and cmake and easyinstall.. I got the error that VTK
is not installed. So: Any idea how to create a simple 3D scatter plot,
seen from any arbitrary angle?

Thanks
  Alex



In [1]: import matplotlib

In [2]: matplotlib.__version__
Out[2]: '0.99.1.1'

In [3]: import matplotlib.axes3d as p3
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
NotImplementedError                       Traceback (most recent call last)

/home/alex/Documents/Job/Travel/2010-03_LSC_Pasadena/3D/<ipython
console> in <module>()

/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/matplotlib/axes3d.py in <module>()
----> 1 raise NotImplementedError('axes3d is not supported in
matplotlib-0.98.  You may want to try the 0.91.x maintenance branch')

NotImplementedError: axes3d is not supported in matplotlib-0.98.  You
may want to try the 0.91.x maintenance branch