Hi Luke, On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 5:49 PM, Dale Lukas Peterson <hazelnu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I'm not sure I understand how I would make use of my function then. > My function needs to be evaluated over a 3-d mesh (x, y, and z) , and then > the > level surfaces (not contour lines) calculated. I guess I could treat > z as a parameter, then plot the zero level contour lines of my function for > a discrete number of z values, but then I would need to adjust the > height that each countour line is plotted at when I do the 3-d plot. > This still would only give bunch of vertically stacked contour > lines, rather than a nice smooth 3-d surface. > > If I'm misunderstanding what you meant, perhaps you could point me > to an example of something that makes a level surface of a function > of 3 (not 2) variables?
You're looking for an isosurface; as far as I know matplotlib does not have isosurface modules, only 2-d contours embedded in 3d (such as those illustrated in http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/examples/mplot3d/contourf3d_demo.html). VTK does have powerful isosurface capabilities, nicely exposed by mayavi: http://code.enthought.com/projects/mayavi/docs/development/html/mayavi/auto/mlab_helper_functions.html#contour3d If the mlab helper isn't sufficient for you, you can create directly VTK isosurfaces, the heart example is a good point to start learning: http://code.enthought.com/projects/mayavi/docs/development/html/mayavi/example_heart.html Regards, f ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
