Re: [Matplotlib-users] Is there a 3D version of the quiver plot?

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

On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 4:25 PM, Eric Firing <ef...@ha...> wrote:

> On 2013/03/07 9:19 AM, Benjamin Root wrote:
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> > On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 2:14 PM, Brickle Macho <bri...@gm...
> > <mailto:bri...@gm...>> wrote:
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> >     I have a list of surface normals I would like to plot.  Is there a
> way
> >     to plot a 3D vectors in matplotlib similar to how quiver plots 2D
> >     vectors?
> >
> >
> > Not at this time, but that would make a great feature request!  I think
> > the current roadblock to such a function is a bug with converting 2d
> > arrow objects into 3d arrows.
>
> Quiver uses a PolyCollection, and I see that there is a Poly3DCollection.
>
> Eric
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> >
> > Ben Root
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Took a bit of digging, but I knew I remembered this question before:

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&ved=0CDMQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmatplotlib.1069221.n5.nabble.com%2F2D-Quiver-in-Axes3D-td27944.html&ei=Pwk5UfGdLufv0QHuroD4BA&usg=AFQjCNEqlWv2vY5l2IPcje-g6B0U21wDNw&bvm=bv.43287494,d.dmQ

And the feature request is here:
https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues/1026

In the thread I pointed out a bug that I encountered.  I really hope I get
some free time soon so that I can work on the various feature requests in
mplot3d.

Cheers!
Ben Root