On 07/18/2010 04:58 AM, H Mike Duan wrote: > 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
Additionally the presented example (after adding a plt.show()) will give the appended traceback if the sphere is panned around. That won't happen if the line ax = fig.gca(projection='3d') is replaced with: ax = Axes3D(fig) Latest mpl svn (r8565), OS: Debian testing. Regards, João Luís Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/matplotlib/backends/backend_gtk.py", line 253, in button_release_event FigureCanvasBase.button_release_event(self, x, y, event.button, guiEvent=event) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/matplotlib/backend_bases.py", line 1603, in button_release_event self.callbacks.process(s, event) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/matplotlib/cbook.py", line 262, in process proxy(*args, **kwargs) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/matplotlib/cbook.py", line 188, in __call__ return mtd(*args, **kwargs) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/matplotlib/backend_bases.py", line 2575, in release_pan a.end_pan() File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/matplotlib/axes.py", line 2788, in end_pan del self._pan_start AttributeError: _pan_start ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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