Re: [Matplotlib-users] plot_surface does not work

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On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 03:46:52PM -0700, Jody Klymak wrote: [...]
> 
> 2) Can I suggest this example be added to the tutorial?
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6539944/color-matplotlib-plot-surface-command-with-surface-gradient
> None of the other examples explain how to colour your surface with
> data, which is what I wanted.  
> 
> 3) I think plot_surface should accept a fourth (optional) argument C
> for colouring the faces: plot_surface(X,Y,Z,C).  I do this a lot if I
> want to make a 3-D plot, and normalizing C, clipping it, and indexing
> a colormap seem clunky, when the routine could do it for me.  
> 

I largely agree. I spend many days to get my plots and posted a few
times on this list e.g.
Subject: Re: [Matplotlib-users] how to create a facecolors map?
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2013 09:24:40

Better documetation would be very nice; please provide example code.
And a remark about that: most exemples show functions with symmetry.
This can be confusing when coloring and other techniques are applied.


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