So, you would like to plot a surface, and then have some slices through it?
Perhaps you are looking for something like this?
http://matplotlib.org/examples/mplot3d/contourf3d_demo2.html
In your case, I would use the contourf()'s "zdir" argument to set the
direction of the slice's normal vector, an
If I understand your intent well, then you want to make slices through a 3D
volume and show such slice planes.
I’ve always done this with the various functions of an Axes3D instance that
allow you to specify the slice position. On the matplotlib examples page,
there is a good example that showed m
