Hi, There seems to be a problem in how 3D surfaces and lines are rendered in mplot3d. The following is a simple script that plots a yellow sphere, a blue wireframe on the surface of the sphere, and a red wireframe outside the sphere. The semi-transparent yellow sphere is rendered beautifully. The blue wireframe can only be seen with certain viewing angles. The red wireframe is seen all the time, but its part that is supposedly behind the sphere appears in front of the sphere. Did I do something wrong or is it a bug of mplot3d? I am using matplotlib 1.0.0 on Mac OS X 10.6. Thanks!
-Mike =================================================== from mpl_toolkits.mplot3d import Axes3D import matplotlib.pyplot as plt import numpy as np fig = plt.figure() ax = fig.gca(projection='3d') u = np.linspace(0, 2 * np.pi, 100) v = np.linspace(0, np.pi, 100) x = 10 * np.outer(np.cos(u), np.sin(v)) y = 10 * np.outer(np.sin(u), np.sin(v)) z = 10 * np.outer(np.ones(np.size(u)), np.cos(v)) ax.plot_surface(x, y, z, rstride=4, cstride=4, color='y', alpha=0.5) ax.plot_wireframe(x, y, z, rstride=10, cstride=10, color='b') ax.plot_wireframe(x*1.1, y*1.1, z*1.1, rstride=20, cstride=20, color='r') ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
