On Wednesday 09 July 2008 12:40:29 pm anirudh vij wrote: > > We have been warning that 3D plotting was unsupported and needed someone > > to volunteer to maintain it for quite a while now. Nobody answered the > > call, and 3d capabilities did not survive the transition to the new > > transforms in mpl-0.98, so it was removed, However... > > hmm. Mayavi2 has a mlab module thats under active development. It aims > to do the same stuff that matlab 3D plots do. However, svn currently > crashes for me. > > > [...] > > > >> matplotlib version is 0.91.2, straight from ubuntu repos. > > > > 3D support should still be present in 0.91.x. I just did a clean install > > of 0.91.4 from svn, and this works: > > > > import pylab as p > > import matplotlib.axes3d as p3 > > fig=p.figure() > > ax = p3.Axes3D(fig) > > p.show() > > > > I haven't used matplotlib's 3d capabilities, so I dont know how you > > expected to work with "from pylab import *" instead of the above. Perhaps > > you could give a short explicit example of what used to work and now does > > not. > > ----- > from pylab import * > import matplotlib.axes3d as p3 > fig=figure() > ax= p3.Axes3D(fig) > ax.scatter3D(x,y,z) > show() > ----- > this causes an error.
I can't help much if you don't tell me what the error is. I just ran the following and I did not observe any error: from pylab import * x=rand(100) y=rand(100) z=rand(100) import matplotlib.axes3d as p3 fig=figure() ax= p3.Axes3D(fig) ax.scatter3D(x,y,z) show() > x,y,z are valid 1D arrays. They work using the > method you've posted in your mail. > > Perhaps a wrapper can be wriitten around mayavi's mlab module. 3D > plotting is too important to leave out of something like matplotlib. > Its perfect for all other things. It would be a pity if one has to > switch to gnuplot or dislin just for 3D. It sounds like a good idea to me. Submissions are very welcome. Darren ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sponsored by: SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards: VOTE NOW! Studies have shown that voting for your favorite open source project, along with a healthy diet, reduces your potential for chronic lameness and boredom. Vote Now at http://www.sourceforge.net/community/cca08 _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
