Re: [Matplotlib-users] Ticks and Axes for 3d plotting

[Skipper S. <jss...@gm...>]

On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 6:13 PM, Benjamin Root <ben...@ou...> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 4:55 PM, Skipper Seabold <jss...@gm...> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Two related questions. Consider this plot
>>
>> -----
>>
>> import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
>> from mpl_toolkits.mplot3d import Axes3D
>>
>> fig = plt.figure()
>> ax = fig.add_subplot(111, projection='3d')
>> ax.plot([1,0,0,1],[0,1,0,0],[0,0,1,0])
>>
>> ax.set_xlim3d(0,1)
>> ax.set_ylim3d(0,1)
>> #ax.set_ylim3d(1,0)
>> ax.set_zlim3d(0,1)
>>
>> plt.show()
>>
>> -----
>>
>> I want to uncomment the line above to reverse the y axis, but as soon
>> as I do, the tick labels disappear on the y axis and the z axis tick
>> label padding changing. Is there another way to reverse the y axis, or
>> should I fix thing after the fact. If so, how can I do this? I don't
>> see a zaxis in rcParams.
>>
>
> The first would be a bug (could you please file one?).  The second should
> probably be a feature request, but I wouldn't expect anything for that right
> away.
>

1. https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues/570
2. Surely there's another workaround in the meantime? I've never
worked much with rcParams, going the long way instead, but now that
I've discovered it, it's my preferred way of doing things. Anyone have
any ideas?

Skipper