I don't see a reason why this can't be implemented. It is probably pretty simple to change the surface plot code to use a polar grid instead of a rectangular grid. Of course this won't change the look of the rectangular axes, but maybe that is not a problem.
I invite you to take a shot at implementing this. You will find the mplot3d code pretty straightforward. (And a lot smaller than you might expect). -Ben -----Original Message----- From: klukas [mailto:klu...@wisc.edu] Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2010 4:34 PM To: matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Matplotlib-users] Polar 3D plot? I'm guessing this is currently impossible with the current mplot3d functionality, but I was wondering if there was any way I could generate a 3d graph with r, phi, z coordinates rather than x, y, z? The point is that I want to make a figure that looks like the following: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7b/Mexican_hat_potential_polar.svg Using the x, y, z system, I end up with something that has long tails like this: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/44/Mecanismo_de_Higgs_PH.png If I try to artificially cut off the data beyond some radius, I end up with jagged edges that are not at all visually appealing. I would appreciate any crazy ideas you can come up with. Thanks, Jeff P.S. Code to produce the ugly jaggedness is included below: ------------------------------------------------------- from mpl_toolkits.mplot3d import Axes3D import matplotlib import numpy as np from matplotlib import cm from matplotlib import pyplot as plt step = 0.04 maxval = 1.0 fig = plt.figure() ax = Axes3D(fig) X = np.arange(-maxval, maxval, step) Y = np.arange(-maxval, maxval, step) X, Y = np.meshgrid(X, Y) R = np.sqrt(X**2 + Y**2) Z = ((R**2 - 1)**2) * (R < 1.25) ax.plot_surface(X, Y, Z, rstride=1, cstride=1, cmap=cm.jet) ax.set_zlim3d(0, 1) #plt.setp(ax.get_xticklabels(), visible=False) ax.set_xlabel(r'$\phi_\mathrm{real}$') ax.set_ylabel(r'$\phi_\mathrm{im}$') ax.set_zlabel(r'$V(\phi)$') ax.set_xticks([]) plt.show() -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Polar-3D-plot--tp27937798p27937798.html Sent from the matplotlib - users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
