Re: [Matplotlib-users] how to hide axes in a 3D plot

[Joe K. <jki...@wi...>]

Interestingly, things work perfectly with the latest build from guithub.
Presumably the bug was fixed already?

On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 2:40 PM, Matthew Koichi Grimes <mk...@cs...>wrote:

> I tried Joe's code, with the call to ax.set_axis_off() moved to right after
> add_subplot(), as Ben suggested. The axes are still not disappearing, nor do
> they disappear when I interact with it (by rotating the plot).
>
> -- Matt
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 3:21 PM, Benjamin Root <ben...@ou...> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 2:14 PM, Joe Kington <jki...@wi...> wrote:
>>
>>> This no longer seems to work with matplotlib 1.0.1.
>>>
>>> As a quick example:
>>>
>>> import numpy as np
>>> import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
>>> from mpl_toolkits.mplot3d import Axes3D
>>>
>>> fig = plt.figure()
>>> ax = fig.add_subplot(111, projection='3d')
>>>
>>> x,y,z,c = np.random.random((4,10))
>>> ax.scatter(x, y, z, c=c)
>>> ax.set_axis_off()
>>>
>>> plt.show()
>>>
>>> The attached .png shows the result on my system... Is this a bug, or am I
>>> doing something strange?
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>  -Joe
>>>
>>>
>> Hmmm, try putting that call right after the add_subplot() call.  I don't
>> have time to test it out right now, but I wonder if the axes are being drawn
>> once prior to the call to set_axis_off().  I would also be interested to
>> know if the axes disappear when you interact with it.
>>
>> Ben Root
>>
>>
>