Benjamin Root <ben.root@...> writes:

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> On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 10:13 AM, Benjamin Root <ben.root <at> ou.edu> wrote:
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> On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 6:25 AM, Richard Hofmeister <richard.hofmeister-
3jvuoyhyqgombxhyh7it0rnah6klm...@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Hello mplot3d specialists,I would like to change the aspect ratio of the 3d 
axes similar to matlab's functionality with daspect() or the 'dataaspectratio' 
property of 3d-axes.In the end, the x-y-plane should be non-square due to 
different lengths (not range) of the x and y axis (i know that i can use the 
aspect property of the axes to set the x-z/y-z aspect ratio).There is also the 
package "scitools", which provides all the matlab-3d functions including 
daspect 
via a VTK-backend; that would be my next try.For the simple 3d-plotting without 
fancy shading, i would like to stick to mplot3d:
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> Is it possible to change the axis lengths/aspect ratios independently?Richard
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> Richard,Good question.  I have never thought about such a feature for 
mplot3d.  Looking back at the code, it does not appear to be feasible to do in 
its current state, as the code seems to assume that the 3d grid is a 
constructed 
from a unit cube.  However, I will see if I can add aspect multipliers to the 
point calculation and get arbitrary aspects.  Maybe I can get that feature 
added 
into the upcoming 1.1.0 release.Ben Root
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> Richard,I took a look at how this might be implemented.  There would have to 
be some extra work to make the plots look right when experiencing changes in 
aspect.  I first tried an implementation of just the plot box aspect ratio 
(pbaspect) as a member variable of the axes object.  It will probably turn into 
a property so that I can link it with a daspect value.  Also, the values should 
be normalized to 1, unless you want to see some interesting shrinkage/growth of 
your plot area.Try my branch here: 
https://github.com/WeatherGod/matplotlib/tree/mplot3d/pbaspectAfter building 
that branch, try the following script (shamelessly adapted from some Matlab 
help 
pages for pbaspect and daspect).import matplotlib.pyplot as pltfrom 
mpl_toolkits.mplot3d import Axes3Dimport numpy as npfig = plt.figure()ax = 
fig.gca(projection='3d')x, y = np.mgrid[-2:2:.2, -2:2:.2]z = x * np.exp(-x**2 - 
y**2)
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> ax.plot_surface(x, y, z, rstride=1, cstride=1)ax.pbaspect = [1.0, 1.0, 
0.25]plt.show()While this will squash the z-axis nicely, it does not force the 
z-ticks to be pruned, so it gets a little ugly.  However, the axis ticks can be 
changed manually.  Also, with some of my other changes coming soon, it should 
be 
possible for the Axes3D object to automatically adjust the spacing of the tick 
labels so that it is not impacted by the changes in aspect ratio in the 
perpendicular direction (i.e. - the x and y tick labels are closer to the axis 
due to the z-axis scaling).Keep an eye on that branch as I work to improve this 
feature, and feel free to contribute to it as well!Ben Root
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Hello!

I am looking for a tool like pbaspect. The only question is how to implement it 
into matplotlib? Do you have a step by step instruction?

Thank you.
Regards,
Alexandr


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