[Matplotlib-users] Surface plot of 2D Image using intensity value for height.

[Brickle M. <bri...@gm...>]

For some fun I am trying to plot a surface representation of 2D image 
where the height level corresponds to the intensity at each pixel.  I 
have been able to change the cmap but would like to assign the original 
pixel colour values (Grayscale or RGB)  to corresponding in the surface 
plot.  Is this possible?     To be honest, I not even sure if I have 
constructed the plot correctly.

Any help appreciated.

Regards,

Brickle.
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-----  Surface Representation of 2D Image --------
from mpl_toolkits.mplot3d import axes3d
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from skimage import data, color
import numpy as np
from scipy import ndimage
from matplotlib import cm

image = color.rgb2gray(data.lena())
image = ndimage.gaussian_filter(image, 8)
x = range(image.shape[0])
y = range(image.shape[1])
X,Y = np.meshgrid(x,y) # Is this the correct way?
Z = image  # Not sure if this is correct?

fig = plt.figure()
ax = fig.add_subplot(1,1,1, projection='3d')
ax.plot_surface(X,Y,Z, cmap=cm.gray)
plt.show()
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