On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 12:04 PM, Dylan Temple <dylan...@umich.edu> wrote:
>
> Matplotlib users,
>
> Hello, I am currently trying to create a 3D plot of a ships hull using the
> plot_surface command in an instance of Axes3d. The default aspect ratio
> for the surface_plot is a cube which, obviously, makes a silly looking
> ship. The x-axis ranges from 0-150, the yaxis ranges from -10,10 and the
> z-axis ranges from 0-10. I want to retain the aspect ratios of those data
> sets in the plot (to get the long, slender ship-looking surface). I can
> get the z and x axes to match up by doing something like:
>
> aspect = (len(xaxis)/len(zaxis))**-1
> ax.set_aspect(aspect,'datalim')
>
> However, I can not find a way to get different aspect ratios between axis
> to get each one in scale with the three data sets. Is there a way to do
> this currently with the Axes3d objects?
>
> Thank you for your help,
> Dylan
>
>
Dylan,
It is a feature I have worked on a bit, but haven't fully completed. Check
out this thread:
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.matplotlib.general/27415
I should see if I can rebase that branch on the updates I have made to
mplot3d since then.
I hope this helps!
Ben Root
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