MATPLOTLIB 3D PLOTS including Scatter 3D and Surface Plots for Matplotlib Python || Matplotlib Tips

[@BrunoAraujo-po2lm]

Omg, I'm a 3D modeler, this video means so much to me, thank you! It's a normal distribution represented in 3D, genious!

[@KimberlyFessel]

Nice 😄-- 3D plots are so much fun!

[@vitorrosar3251]

This is the best video about 3d graphics on matplotlib!!!

[@rabinthapa401]

Still on the middle of the document, Me studying this, I already admire it through all dimension. Thank you

[@vitorribeirosa]

Thank you for you videos. They have helped me a lot. Cheers!!!

[@stlo0309]

tysm! never knew 3d plots are possible with matplotlib alone

[@victorcouloume6824]

Thank you so much ! I was looking for an explanation this clear, keep the good work !

[@higheloguy9057]

Great professionally made video. You look great/alive in front of camera

[@zakariaabderrahmanesadelao3048]

Brilliant and clear tutorial, appreciated.

[@agustindelpino6898]

Que grande esta señora. Una capa.

[@nothing-yt7nu]

When I try the interactive thing by adding"%matplotlib notebook", it returns an error that says "No module named 'ipympl'".

[@samuelgbashi8969]

Great Job. I love your content.

[@SumandeepSinghRanamem]

thank you this was very nicely explained.

[@abdullahimuhammad643]

very useful. clarity defined this presentation

[@KimberlyFessel]

Oh thank you! Glad to hear you found it to be clear - cheers!

[@matteobarnaba6518]

Thank you very much for your videos, they are great and very informative. Do you plan to make some video about contours, color maps, etc., as well? Thank you in advance for your reply 🙂

[@hazhir3861]

That was helpful. Thank you for sharing :)

[@lucapassani1129]

Very instructive and enjoyable. Thank you.

[@KimberlyFessel]

Thanks so much, Luca! Glad you enjoyed it 😄

[@gusinthecloud]

I really appreciate your video. It's quite helpful

[@ayenewyihune]

Great video, thank you

[@BISWAJITMONDAL-vj3py]

How to make two surface plots in 3D with different x & y scales (like twin axis in 2D plots)? ...Thanks!

[@卡殿-y1n]

Thank you very much!

[@prabup3114]

Very nice hands on. have a query. How to create a surface with x,y,z data points instead of knowing the z equation as a function of x,y.

[@KimberlyFessel]

Thank you and sure thing! If you already have the values for z, you can just pass them directly into the surface plot; for example, ax.plot_surface(X, Y, Z) where Z contains your values instead of a function result. You'll just want to make sure that X, Y, and Z are all the same shape. Z should be the z-positions at all of your x- and y-grid positions.

[@SURAJITHDE]

Ma'am can we create 3d surface plot by taking a grayscale image as an input

[@neelsamshah]

Thank you for creating this video. It is very helpful. In some of the code online, I see the following import: from mpl_toolkits import mplot3d. Is this needed? Also, sometimes, people explicitly create a figure using plt.figure and then add axes to the figure: fig = plt.figure(); ax = plt.axes(projection='3d'). When do we need to explicitly use the figure function first?

[@KimberlyFessel]

Most welcome! Regarding your questions: previous versions of matplotlib required you to explicitly import mplot3d to make a 3D plot. It won't hurt your code, but matplotlib version 3.2.0 or higher no longer requires this. And you can use fig = plt.figure() and then refer to that specific figure if you are creating multiple figures with your code. Really, any time the figure (or axes) you are referring to may be ambiguous.

[@thbdf3879]

Really helpful !!!

[@KimberlyFessel]

Very glad to hear that - cheers!

[@youcefyahiaoui1465]

Hi Kimberly, Again, thank you so much for the top notch videos you're putting out. I am definitely a fan. Now, often we define the z_line as a real time axis like say I have frequency 1MHz, its period would be 1/f = 1µs, I want to build an axis of 4 periods, I want the z_line to be my time t formed as 0 to 4*T with steps of T/10. Linespace does not work as it's expecting intergers. Can you advise on how to do the same thing as linspace but with float numbers? something that would like linspace(0,T/10,4*T)...

[@youcefyahiaoui1465]

Never mind, Kimberly. I was able to do this using np.arange(min, max, step) utility. Thanks.

[@darklee1146]

excuseme sir, why i try to sketch another equation but the output the the same like your equation 50-x^2-y^2 ?

[@shajiwang]

is it possible to create a scatter 3D plot where the axis form a pyramid ladder chart instead of a cubic shape?

[@KimberlyFessel]

Sure, I don't see why not. You would just want to supply an equation for the pyramid shape instead of the cubic shape I have here in the definition of function_z()... may need a piecewise function to make the edges nice and crisp.

[@davidzamora4654]

How can I enable the "interactivity" mode in Spyder? Is it possible? Excellent video and explanation btw

[@KimberlyFessel]

Thank you! Unfortunately, I'm not very familiar with Spyder, but it sounds like it is possible to do this based on @HABIBE KABA DIAKITE 's question and comment.

[@_MrSivakumaR_]

Interactive mode is not available in spyder, I think ! However, you can run the program file from the file explorer, so that a new window opens, which is Interactive 🙂

[@themightyquinn100]

How do you include scatter data and surface on one plot? I have data points in 3 dimensions and I need to plot a surface that was obtained by B-Spline regression along with the data points.

[@tilkesh]

Thanks

[@aditijain6551]

once u move plot interactively, how to query new angles?

[@KimberlyFessel]

Hi there - You can still use ax.view_init() even if you have interactive mode on ("%matplotlib notebook"). Just add ax.view_init() under your plot and re-run the cell. This will start the initial position of your figure at the angle you specify.

[@habibekabadiakite1218]

How to make the move on Spyder ?

[@KimberlyFessel]

Hello there - unfortunately, I'm not too familiar with Spyder and don't have it installed on my machine. I typically test out this code using Jupyter Notebook or Google Colab. Sorry I couldn't help with this one!

[@habibekabadiakite1218]

@@KimberlyFessel Thank you very much, I searched and I found

[@shardulnikam9322]

@@habibekabadiakite1218 Hey, can you please share how to do it in spyder?

[@guaishouxiao1623]

plt.axes(projection="3d"), it says TypeError: 'module' object is not callable. Anyone has the same problem?

[@belenmatamoros1078]

Te amo

[@YM-lm8xr]

how to implement plotting a SERIES of 2d spectra(energy vs conductance) into a 3D plot (x=energy, y=uniformly lined up spectra, z=conductance) in Matplotlib?

[@KimberlyFessel]

Hi there - as long as you have x, y, and z coordinates for each of these components, you can absolutely make a 3D plot for your data. Are your uniform spectra data currently the index of your series? If so, you can pass the dataframe columns and indices directly into the matplotlib plotting methods like scatter3D. For example, if you have a dataframe df with columns like "energy" and "conductance" and your spectra are the indices, you can do ax.scatter3D(df.energy, df.index, df.conductance).

[@sethsm7]

DOES ANYBODY KNOW HOW TO PLOT Y AND Z-AXIS ON LOG SCALES WITHOUT APPLYING A LOG TO THE DATA?? PLEASE AND THANK YOU!!

[@LetoTheGodEmperor]

You could try ax.set_yscale('log') and ax.set_zscale('log'). Hope it works

[@Andrumen01]

It's good that matplotlib has 3D options...but still so far from being good...I always feel that it could be better but it never quite gets there. There should be lessons learned from Mathematica. Understandable that Mathematica is paid software, whereas matplolib is "free", but still disappoints a little every time I try to use it.