Re: [Matplotlib-users] Control over ticks in 3D plot

[Benjamin R. <ben...@ou...>]

On Tuesday, July 19, 2011, Jakub Nowacki <j.s...@gm...> wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I've found it impossible to get some control over ticks in a 3D plot
> (Axes3D, using with projection='3d' option) in Matplotlib 1.0.1 (EPD
> 7.1-1 linux 64-bit). Namely, I have one out of four subplots, that is 3D
> and it has much to many ticks (tick labels to be exact), which makes
> them unreadable (most of them overlay on one another, not mentioning
> axis labels are covered as well). Usually in such situations I used
> set_x(y)ticks with some values or ax.x(y)axis.get_major_locator()._nbins
> if I just wanted a certain number. But I've found that _nbins doesn't do
> anything (also, there is no zaxis object), set_zticks return an error
> 'AttributeError: 'Axes3DSubplot' object has no attribute 'set_zticks''
> and set_x(y)ticks changes ticks of not 3d axis but 2d one. Is there any
> (other) way to influence the number of ticks?
>
> Thanks for the help in advance.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Jakub
>

Jakub, if possible, could you test out the latest matplotlib in
development on github?  I have been working hard in this.  If not, you
could also always operate directly through the axis objects
themselves, such as: ax.zaxis (although, you might have to do
ax.w_zaxis).

Ben Root