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<span id="sphx-glr-tutorials-toolkits-mplot3d-py"></span><h1>The mplot3d Toolkit<a class="headerlink" href="#the-mplot3d-toolkit" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
<p>Generating 3D plots using the mplot3d toolkit.</p>
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<li><a class="reference internal" href="#the-mplot3d-toolkit" id="id14">The mplot3d Toolkit</a><ul>
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<span id="toolkit-mplot3d-tutorial"></span><h2>Getting started<a class="headerlink" href="#getting-started" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>3D Axes (of class <a class="reference internal" href="../../api/_as_gen/mpl_toolkits.mplot3d.axes3d.Axes3D.html#mpl_toolkits.mplot3d.axes3d.Axes3D" title="mpl_toolkits.mplot3d.axes3d.Axes3D"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">Axes3D</span></code></a>) are created by passing the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">projection="3d"</span></code>
keyword argument to <a class="reference internal" href="../../api/_as_gen/matplotlib.figure.Figure.html#matplotlib.figure.Figure.add_subplot" title="matplotlib.figure.Figure.add_subplot"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">Figure.add_subplot</span></code></a>:</p>
<div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">matplotlib.pyplot</span> <span class="k">as</span> <span class="nn">plt</span>
<span class="n">fig</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">plt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">figure</span><span class="p">()</span>
<span class="n">ax</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">fig</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">add_subplot</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">111</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">projection</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s1">'3d'</span><span class="p">)</span>
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<p><span class="versionmodified changed">Changed in version 1.0.0: </span>Prior to Matplotlib 1.0.0, <a class="reference internal" href="../../api/_as_gen/mpl_toolkits.mplot3d.axes3d.Axes3D.html#mpl_toolkits.mplot3d.axes3d.Axes3D" title="mpl_toolkits.mplot3d.axes3d.Axes3D"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">Axes3D</span></code></a> needed to be directly instantiated with
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">from</span> <span class="pre">mpl_toolkits.mplot3d</span> <span class="pre">import</span> <span class="pre">Axes3D;</span> <span class="pre">ax</span> <span class="pre">=</span> <span class="pre">Axes3D(fig)</span></code>.</p>
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<p><span class="versionmodified changed">Changed in version 3.2.0: </span>Prior to Matplotlib 3.2.0, it was necessary to explicitly import the
<a class="reference internal" href="../../api/toolkits/mplot3d.html#module-mpl_toolkits.mplot3d" title="mpl_toolkits.mplot3d"><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">mpl_toolkits.mplot3d</span></code></a> module to make the '3d' projection to
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<p>See the <a class="reference internal" href="../../api/toolkits/mplot3d/faq.html#toolkit-mplot3d-faq"><span class="std std-ref">mplot3d FAQ</span></a> for more information about the mplot3d
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<span id="plot3d"></span><h3>Line plots<a class="headerlink" href="#line-plots" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
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<code class="descclassname">Axes3D.</code><code class="descname">plot</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>self</em>, <em>xs</em>, <em>ys</em>, <em>*args</em>, <em>zdir='z'</em>, <em>**kwargs</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="reference internal" href="../../_modules/mpl_toolkits/mplot3d/axes3d.html#Axes3D.plot"><span class="viewcode-link">[source]</span></a><a class="headerlink" href="#mpl_toolkits.mplot3d.Axes3D.plot" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Plot 2D or 3D data.</p>
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<dt><strong>xs</strong><span class="classifier">1D array-like</span></dt><dd><p>x coordinates of vertices.</p>
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<dt><strong>ys</strong><span class="classifier">1D array-like</span></dt><dd><p>y coordinates of vertices.</p>
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<dt><strong>zs</strong><span class="classifier">float or 1D array-like</span></dt><dd><p>z coordinates of vertices; either one for all points or one for
each point.</p>
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<dt><strong>zdir</strong><span class="classifier">{'x', 'y', 'z'}, default: 'z'</span></dt><dd><p>When plotting 2D data, the direction to use as z ('x', 'y' or 'z').</p>
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<dt><strong>**kwargs</strong></dt><dd><p>Other arguments are forwarded to <a class="reference internal" href="../../api/_as_gen/matplotlib.axes.Axes.plot.html#matplotlib.axes.Axes.plot" title="matplotlib.axes.Axes.plot"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">matplotlib.axes.Axes.plot</span></code></a>.</p>
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<span id="scatter3d"></span><h3>Scatter plots<a class="headerlink" href="#scatter-plots" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
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<code class="descclassname">Axes3D.</code><code class="descname">scatter</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>self</em>, <em>xs</em>, <em>ys</em>, <em>zs=0</em>, <em>zdir='z'</em>, <em>s=20</em>, <em>c=None</em>, <em>depthshade=True</em>, <em>*args</em>, <em>**kwargs</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="reference internal" href="../../_modules/mpl_toolkits/mplot3d/axes3d.html#Axes3D.scatter"><span class="viewcode-link">[source]</span></a><a class="headerlink" href="#mpl_toolkits.mplot3d.Axes3D.scatter" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Create a scatter plot.</p>
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<tr class="field-odd field"><th class="field-name">Parameters:</th><td class="field-body"><dl class="first docutils">
<dt><strong>xs, ys</strong><span class="classifier">array-like</span></dt><dd><p>The data positions.</p>
</dd>
<dt><strong>zs</strong><span class="classifier">float or array-like, default: 0</span></dt><dd><p>The z-positions. Either an array of the same length as <em>xs</em> and
<em>ys</em> or a single value to place all points in the same plane.</p>
</dd>
<dt><strong>zdir</strong><span class="classifier">{'x', 'y', 'z', '-x', '-y', '-z'}, default: 'z'</span></dt><dd><p>The axis direction for the <em>zs</em>. This is useful when plotting 2D
data on a 3D Axes. The data must be passed as <em>xs</em>, <em>ys</em>. Setting
<em>zdir</em> to 'y' then plots the data to the x-z-plane.</p>
<p>See also <a class="reference internal" href="../../gallery/mplot3d/2dcollections3d.html"><span class="doc">Plot 2D data on 3D plot</span></a>.</p>
</dd>
<dt><strong>s</strong><span class="classifier">float or array-like, default: 20</span></dt><dd><p>The marker size in points**2. Either an array of the same length
as <em>xs</em> and <em>ys</em> or a single value to make all markers the same
size.</p>
</dd>
<dt><strong>c</strong><span class="classifier">color, sequence, or sequence of colors, optional</span></dt><dd><p>The marker color. Possible values:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li>A single color format string.</li>
<li>A sequence of colors of length n.</li>
<li>A sequence of n numbers to be mapped to colors using <em>cmap</em> and
<em>norm</em>.</li>
<li>A 2-D array in which the rows are RGB or RGBA.</li>
</ul>
<p>For more details see the <em>c</em> argument of <a class="reference internal" href="../../api/_as_gen/matplotlib.axes.Axes.scatter.html#matplotlib.axes.Axes.scatter" title="matplotlib.axes.Axes.scatter"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">scatter</span></code></a>.</p>
</dd>
<dt><strong>depthshade</strong><span class="classifier">bool, default: True</span></dt><dd><p>Whether to shade the scatter markers to give the appearance of
depth. Each call to <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">scatter()</span></code> will perform its depthshading
independently.</p>
</dd>
<dt><strong>**kwargs</strong></dt><dd><p>All other arguments are passed on to <a class="reference internal" href="../../api/_as_gen/matplotlib.axes.Axes.scatter.html#matplotlib.axes.Axes.scatter" title="matplotlib.axes.Axes.scatter"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">scatter</span></code></a>.</p>
</dd>
</dl>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="field-even field"><th class="field-name">Returns:</th><td class="field-body"><dl class="first last docutils">
<dt><strong>paths</strong><span class="classifier"><a class="reference internal" href="../../api/collections_api.html#matplotlib.collections.PathCollection" title="matplotlib.collections.PathCollection"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">PathCollection</span></code></a></span></dt><dd></dd>
</dl>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</dd></dl>
<div class="figure align-center" id="id2">
<a class="reference external image-reference" href="../../gallery/mplot3d/scatter3d.html"><img alt="../../_images/sphx_glr_scatter3d_0011.png" src="../../_images/sphx_glr_scatter3d_0011.png" style="width: 320.0px; height: 240.0px;" /></a>
<p class="caption"><span class="caption-text">Scatter3d</span><a class="headerlink" href="#id2" title="Permalink to this image">¶</a></p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="wireframe-plots">
<span id="wireframe"></span><h3>Wireframe plots<a class="headerlink" href="#wireframe-plots" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<dl class="method">
<dt id="mpl_toolkits.mplot3d.Axes3D.plot_wireframe">
<code class="descclassname">Axes3D.</code><code class="descname">plot_wireframe</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>self</em>, <em>X</em>, <em>Y</em>, <em>Z</em>, <em>*args</em>, <em>**kwargs</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="reference internal" href="../../_modules/mpl_toolkits/mplot3d/axes3d.html#Axes3D.plot_wireframe"><span class="viewcode-link">[source]</span></a><a class="headerlink" href="#mpl_toolkits.mplot3d.Axes3D.plot_wireframe" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Plot a 3D wireframe.</p>
<div class="admonition note">
<p class="first admonition-title">Note</p>
<p class="last">The <em>rcount</em> and <em>ccount</em> kwargs, which both default to 50,
determine the maximum number of samples used in each direction. If
the input data is larger, it will be downsampled (by slicing) to
these numbers of points.</p>
</div>
<table class="docutils field-list" frame="void" rules="none">
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<tbody valign="top">
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<dt><strong>X, Y, Z</strong><span class="classifier">2d arrays</span></dt><dd><p>Data values.</p>
</dd>
<dt><strong>rcount, ccount</strong><span class="classifier">int</span></dt><dd><p>Maximum number of samples used in each direction. If the input
data is larger, it will be downsampled (by slicing) to these
numbers of points. Setting a count to zero causes the data to be
not sampled in the corresponding direction, producing a 3D line
plot rather than a wireframe plot. Defaults to 50.</p>
<div class="versionadded">
<p><span class="versionmodified added">New in version 2.0.</span></p>
</div>
</dd>
<dt><strong>rstride, cstride</strong><span class="classifier">int</span></dt><dd><p>Downsampling stride in each direction. These arguments are
mutually exclusive with <em>rcount</em> and <em>ccount</em>. If only one of
<em>rstride</em> or <em>cstride</em> is set, the other defaults to 1. Setting a
stride to zero causes the data to be not sampled in the
corresponding direction, producing a 3D line plot rather than a
wireframe plot.</p>
<p>'classic' mode uses a default of <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">rstride</span> <span class="pre">=</span> <span class="pre">cstride</span> <span class="pre">=</span> <span class="pre">1</span></code> instead
of the new default of <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">rcount</span> <span class="pre">=</span> <span class="pre">ccount</span> <span class="pre">=</span> <span class="pre">50</span></code>.</p>
</dd>
<dt><strong>**kwargs</strong></dt><dd><p>Other arguments are forwarded to <a class="reference internal" href="../../api/_as_gen/mpl_toolkits.mplot3d.art3d.Line3DCollection.html#mpl_toolkits.mplot3d.art3d.Line3DCollection" title="mpl_toolkits.mplot3d.art3d.Line3DCollection"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">Line3DCollection</span></code></a>.</p>
</dd>
</dl>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</dd></dl>
<div class="figure align-center" id="id3">
<a class="reference external image-reference" href="../../gallery/mplot3d/wire3d.html"><img alt="../../_images/sphx_glr_wire3d_0011.png" src="../../_images/sphx_glr_wire3d_0011.png" style="width: 320.0px; height: 240.0px;" /></a>
<p class="caption"><span class="caption-text">Wire3d</span><a class="headerlink" href="#id3" title="Permalink to this image">¶</a></p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="surface-plots">
<span id="surface"></span><h3>Surface plots<a class="headerlink" href="#surface-plots" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<dl class="method">
<dt id="mpl_toolkits.mplot3d.Axes3D.plot_surface">
<code class="descclassname">Axes3D.</code><code class="descname">plot_surface</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>self</em>, <em>X</em>, <em>Y</em>, <em>Z</em>, <em>*args</em>, <em>norm=None</em>, <em>vmin=None</em>, <em>vmax=None</em>, <em>lightsource=None</em>, <em>**kwargs</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="reference internal" href="../../_modules/mpl_toolkits/mplot3d/axes3d.html#Axes3D.plot_surface"><span class="viewcode-link">[source]</span></a><a class="headerlink" href="#mpl_toolkits.mplot3d.Axes3D.plot_surface" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Create a surface plot.</p>
<p>By default it will be colored in shades of a solid color, but it also
supports color mapping by supplying the <em>cmap</em> argument.</p>
<div class="admonition note">
<p class="first admonition-title">Note</p>
<p class="last">The <em>rcount</em> and <em>ccount</em> kwargs, which both default to 50,
determine the maximum number of samples used in each direction. If
the input data is larger, it will be downsampled (by slicing) to
these numbers of points.</p>
</div>
<div class="admonition note">
<p class="first admonition-title">Note</p>
<p>To maximize rendering speed consider setting <em>rstride</em> and <em>cstride</em>
to divisors of the number of rows minus 1 and columns minus 1
respectively. For example, given 51 rows rstride can be any of the
divisors of 50.</p>
<p class="last">Similarly, a setting of <em>rstride</em> and <em>cstride</em> equal to 1 (or
<em>rcount</em> and <em>ccount</em> equal the number of rows and columns) can use
the optimized path.</p>
</div>
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<tr class="field-odd field"><th class="field-name">Parameters:</th><td class="field-body"><dl class="first last docutils">
<dt><strong>X, Y, Z</strong><span class="classifier">2d arrays</span></dt><dd><p>Data values.</p>
</dd>
<dt><strong>rcount, ccount</strong><span class="classifier">int</span></dt><dd><p>Maximum number of samples used in each direction. If the input
data is larger, it will be downsampled (by slicing) to these
numbers of points. Defaults to 50.</p>
<div class="versionadded">
<p><span class="versionmodified added">New in version 2.0.</span></p>
</div>
</dd>
<dt><strong>rstride, cstride</strong><span class="classifier">int</span></dt><dd><p>Downsampling stride in each direction. These arguments are
mutually exclusive with <em>rcount</em> and <em>ccount</em>. If only one of
<em>rstride</em> or <em>cstride</em> is set, the other defaults to 10.</p>
<p>'classic' mode uses a default of <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">rstride</span> <span class="pre">=</span> <span class="pre">cstride</span> <span class="pre">=</span> <span class="pre">10</span></code> instead
of the new default of <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">rcount</span> <span class="pre">=</span> <span class="pre">ccount</span> <span class="pre">=</span> <span class="pre">50</span></code>.</p>
</dd>
<dt><strong>color</strong><span class="classifier">color-like</span></dt><dd><p>Color of the surface patches.</p>
</dd>
<dt><strong>cmap</strong><span class="classifier">Colormap</span></dt><dd><p>Colormap of the surface patches.</p>
</dd>
<dt><strong>facecolors</strong><span class="classifier">array-like of colors.</span></dt><dd><p>Colors of each individual patch.</p>
</dd>
<dt><strong>norm</strong><span class="classifier">Normalize</span></dt><dd><p>Normalization for the colormap.</p>
</dd>
<dt><strong>vmin, vmax</strong><span class="classifier">float</span></dt><dd><p>Bounds for the normalization.</p>
</dd>
<dt><strong>shade</strong><span class="classifier">bool, default: True</span></dt><dd><p>Whether to shade the facecolors. Shading is always disabled when
<em>cmap</em> is specified.</p>
</dd>
<dt><strong>lightsource</strong><span class="classifier"><a class="reference internal" href="../../api/_as_gen/matplotlib.colors.LightSource.html#matplotlib.colors.LightSource" title="matplotlib.colors.LightSource"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">LightSource</span></code></a></span></dt><dd><p>The lightsource to use when <em>shade</em> is True.</p>
</dd>
<dt><strong>**kwargs</strong></dt><dd><p>Other arguments are forwarded to <a class="reference internal" href="../../api/_as_gen/mpl_toolkits.mplot3d.art3d.Poly3DCollection.html#mpl_toolkits.mplot3d.art3d.Poly3DCollection" title="mpl_toolkits.mplot3d.art3d.Poly3DCollection"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">Poly3DCollection</span></code></a>.</p>
</dd>
</dl>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</dd></dl>
<div class="figure align-center" id="id4">
<a class="reference external image-reference" href="../../gallery/mplot3d/surface3d.html"><img alt="../../_images/sphx_glr_surface3d_0012.png" src="../../_images/sphx_glr_surface3d_0012.png" style="width: 320.0px; height: 240.0px;" /></a>
<p class="caption"><span class="caption-text">Surface3d</span><a class="headerlink" href="#id4" title="Permalink to this image">¶</a></p>
<div class="legend">
<p>Surface3d 2</p>
<p>Surface3d 3</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="tri-surface-plots">
<span id="trisurface"></span><h3>Tri-Surface plots<a class="headerlink" href="#tri-surface-plots" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<dl class="method">
<dt id="mpl_toolkits.mplot3d.Axes3D.plot_trisurf">
<code class="descclassname">Axes3D.</code><code class="descname">plot_trisurf</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>self</em>, <em>*args</em>, <em>color=None</em>, <em>norm=None</em>, <em>vmin=None</em>, <em>vmax=None</em>, <em>lightsource=None</em>, <em>**kwargs</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="reference internal" href="../../_modules/mpl_toolkits/mplot3d/axes3d.html#Axes3D.plot_trisurf"><span class="viewcode-link">[source]</span></a><a class="headerlink" href="#mpl_toolkits.mplot3d.Axes3D.plot_trisurf" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Plot a triangulated surface.</p>
<p>The (optional) triangulation can be specified in one of two ways;
either:</p>
<div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="n">plot_trisurf</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">triangulation</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="o">...</span><span class="p">)</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>where triangulation is a <a class="reference internal" href="../../api/tri_api.html#matplotlib.tri.Triangulation" title="matplotlib.tri.Triangulation"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">Triangulation</span></code></a> object, or:</p>
<div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="n">plot_trisurf</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">X</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">Y</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="o">...</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">plot_trisurf</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">X</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">Y</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">triangles</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="o">...</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">plot_trisurf</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">X</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">Y</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">triangles</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">triangles</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="o">...</span><span class="p">)</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>in which case a Triangulation object will be created. See
<a class="reference internal" href="../../api/tri_api.html#matplotlib.tri.Triangulation" title="matplotlib.tri.Triangulation"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">Triangulation</span></code></a> for a explanation of these possibilities.</p>
<p>The remaining arguments are:</p>
<div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="n">plot_trisurf</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="o">...</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">Z</span><span class="p">)</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>where <em>Z</em> is the array of values to contour, one per point
in the triangulation.</p>
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<tr class="field-odd field"><th class="field-name">Parameters:</th><td class="field-body"><dl class="first last docutils">
<dt><strong>X, Y, Z</strong><span class="classifier">array-like</span></dt><dd><p>Data values as 1D arrays.</p>
</dd>
<dt><strong>color</strong></dt><dd><p>Color of the surface patches.</p>
</dd>
<dt><strong>cmap</strong></dt><dd><p>A colormap for the surface patches.</p>
</dd>
<dt><strong>norm</strong><span class="classifier">Normalize</span></dt><dd><p>An instance of Normalize to map values to colors.</p>
</dd>
<dt><strong>vmin, vmax</strong><span class="classifier">float, default: None</span></dt><dd><p>Minimum and maximum value to map.</p>
</dd>
<dt><strong>shade</strong><span class="classifier">bool, default: True</span></dt><dd><p>Whether to shade the facecolors. Shading is always disabled when
<em>cmap</em> is specified.</p>
</dd>
<dt><strong>lightsource</strong><span class="classifier"><a class="reference internal" href="../../api/_as_gen/matplotlib.colors.LightSource.html#matplotlib.colors.LightSource" title="matplotlib.colors.LightSource"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">LightSource</span></code></a></span></dt><dd><p>The lightsource to use when <em>shade</em> is True.</p>
</dd>
<dt><strong>**kwargs</strong></dt><dd><p>All other arguments are passed on to
<a class="reference internal" href="../../api/_as_gen/mpl_toolkits.mplot3d.art3d.Poly3DCollection.html#mpl_toolkits.mplot3d.art3d.Poly3DCollection" title="mpl_toolkits.mplot3d.art3d.Poly3DCollection"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">Poly3DCollection</span></code></a></p>
</dd>
</dl>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p class="rubric">Examples</p>
<p>(<a class="reference external" href="../../gallery/mplot3d/trisurf3d.py">Source code</a>, <a class="reference external" href="../../gallery/mplot3d/trisurf3d.png">png</a>, <a class="reference external" href="../../gallery/mplot3d/trisurf3d.pdf">pdf</a>)</p>
<div class="figure align-default">
<img alt="../../_images/trisurf3d2.png" src="../../_images/trisurf3d2.png" />
</div>
<p>(<a class="reference external" href="../../gallery/mplot3d/trisurf3d_2.py">Source code</a>, <a class="reference external" href="../../gallery/mplot3d/trisurf3d_2.png">png</a>, <a class="reference external" href="../../gallery/mplot3d/trisurf3d_2.pdf">pdf</a>)</p>
<div class="figure align-default">
<img alt="../../_images/trisurf3d_22.png" src="../../_images/trisurf3d_22.png" />
</div>
<div class="versionadded">
<p><span class="versionmodified added">New in version 1.2.0.</span></p>
</div>
</dd></dl>
<div class="figure align-center" id="id5">
<a class="reference external image-reference" href="../../gallery/mplot3d/trisurf3d.html"><img alt="../../_images/sphx_glr_trisurf3d_0011.png" src="../../_images/sphx_glr_trisurf3d_0011.png" style="width: 320.0px; height: 240.0px;" /></a>
<p class="caption"><span class="caption-text">Trisurf3d</span><a class="headerlink" href="#id5" title="Permalink to this image">¶</a></p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="contour-plots">
<span id="contour3d"></span><h3>Contour plots<a class="headerlink" href="#contour-plots" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<dl class="method">
<dt id="mpl_toolkits.mplot3d.Axes3D.contour">
<code class="descclassname">Axes3D.</code><code class="descname">contour</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>self</em>, <em>X</em>, <em>Y</em>, <em>Z</em>, <em>*args</em>, <em>extend3d=False</em>, <em>stride=5</em>, <em>zdir='z'</em>, <em>offset=None</em>, <em>**kwargs</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="reference internal" href="../../_modules/mpl_toolkits/mplot3d/axes3d.html#Axes3D.contour"><span class="viewcode-link">[source]</span></a><a class="headerlink" href="#mpl_toolkits.mplot3d.Axes3D.contour" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Create a 3D contour plot.</p>
<table class="docutils field-list" frame="void" rules="none">
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<tr class="field-odd field"><th class="field-name">Parameters:</th><td class="field-body"><dl class="first docutils">
<dt><strong>X, Y, Z</strong><span class="classifier">array-like</span></dt><dd><p>Input data.</p>
</dd>
<dt><strong>extend3d</strong><span class="classifier">bool, default: False</span></dt><dd><p>Whether to extend contour in 3D.</p>
</dd>
<dt><strong>stride</strong><span class="classifier">int</span></dt><dd><p>Step size for extending contour.</p>
</dd>
<dt><strong>zdir</strong><span class="classifier">{'x', 'y', 'z'}, default: 'z'</span></dt><dd><p>The direction to use.</p>
</dd>
<dt><strong>offset</strong><span class="classifier">float, optional</span></dt><dd><p>If specified, plot a projection of the contour lines at this
position in a plane normal to zdir.</p>
</dd>
<dt><strong>*args, **kwargs</strong></dt><dd><p>Other arguments are forwarded to <a class="reference internal" href="../../api/_as_gen/matplotlib.axes.Axes.contour.html#matplotlib.axes.Axes.contour" title="matplotlib.axes.Axes.contour"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">matplotlib.axes.Axes.contour</span></code></a>.</p>
</dd>
</dl>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="field-even field"><th class="field-name">Returns:</th><td class="field-body"><dl class="first last docutils">
<dt>matplotlib.contour.QuadContourSet</dt><dd></dd>
</dl>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</dd></dl>
<div class="figure align-center" id="id6">
<a class="reference external image-reference" href="../../gallery/mplot3d/contour3d.html"><img alt="../../_images/sphx_glr_contour3d_0011.png" src="../../_images/sphx_glr_contour3d_0011.png" style="width: 320.0px; height: 240.0px;" /></a>
<p class="caption"><span class="caption-text">Contour3d</span><a class="headerlink" href="#id6" title="Permalink to this image">¶</a></p>
<div class="legend">
<p>Contour3d 2</p>
<p>Contour3d 3</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="filled-contour-plots">
<span id="contourf3d"></span><h3>Filled contour plots<a class="headerlink" href="#filled-contour-plots" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<dl class="method">
<dt id="mpl_toolkits.mplot3d.Axes3D.contourf">
<code class="descclassname">Axes3D.</code><code class="descname">contourf</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>self</em>, <em>X</em>, <em>Y</em>, <em>Z</em>, <em>*args</em>, <em>zdir='z'</em>, <em>offset=None</em>, <em>**kwargs</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="reference internal" href="../../_modules/mpl_toolkits/mplot3d/axes3d.html#Axes3D.contourf"><span class="viewcode-link">[source]</span></a><a class="headerlink" href="#mpl_toolkits.mplot3d.Axes3D.contourf" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Create a 3D filled contour plot.</p>
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<dt><strong>X, Y, Z</strong><span class="classifier">array-like</span></dt><dd><p>Input data.</p>
</dd>
<dt><strong>zdir</strong><span class="classifier">{'x', 'y', 'z'}, default: 'z'</span></dt><dd><p>The direction to use.</p>
</dd>
<dt><strong>offset</strong><span class="classifier">float, optional</span></dt><dd><p>If specified, plot a projection of the contour lines at this
position in a plane normal to zdir.</p>
</dd>
<dt><strong>*args, **kwargs</strong></dt><dd><p>Other arguments are forwarded to <a class="reference internal" href="../../api/_as_gen/matplotlib.axes.Axes.contourf.html#matplotlib.axes.Axes.contourf" title="matplotlib.axes.Axes.contourf"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">matplotlib.axes.Axes.contourf</span></code></a>.</p>
</dd>
</dl>
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<tr class="field-even field"><th class="field-name">Returns:</th><td class="field-body"><dl class="first last docutils">
<dt>matplotlib.contour.QuadContourSet</dt><dd></dd>
</dl>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p class="rubric">Notes</p>
<div class="versionadded">
<p><span class="versionmodified added">New in version 1.1.0: </span>The <em>zdir</em> and <em>offset</em> parameters.</p>
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</dd></dl>
<div class="figure align-center" id="id7">
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<p class="caption"><span class="caption-text">Contourf3d</span><a class="headerlink" href="#id7" title="Permalink to this image">¶</a></p>
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Contourf3d 2</div>
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<div class="versionadded">
<p><span class="versionmodified added">New in version 1.1.0: </span>The feature demoed in the second contourf3d example was enabled as a
result of a bugfix for version 1.1.0.</p>
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</div>
<div class="section" id="polygon-plots">
<span id="polygon3d"></span><h3>Polygon plots<a class="headerlink" href="#polygon-plots" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<dl class="method">
<dt id="mpl_toolkits.mplot3d.Axes3D.add_collection3d">
<code class="descclassname">Axes3D.</code><code class="descname">add_collection3d</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>self</em>, <em>col</em>, <em>zs=0</em>, <em>zdir='z'</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="reference internal" href="../../_modules/mpl_toolkits/mplot3d/axes3d.html#Axes3D.add_collection3d"><span class="viewcode-link">[source]</span></a><a class="headerlink" href="#mpl_toolkits.mplot3d.Axes3D.add_collection3d" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Add a 3D collection object to the plot.</p>
<p>2D collection types are converted to a 3D version by
modifying the object and adding z coordinate information.</p>
<dl class="docutils">
<dt>Supported are:</dt><dd><ul class="simple">
<li>PolyCollection</li>
<li>LineCollection</li>
<li>PatchCollection</li>
</ul>
</dd>
</dl>
</dd></dl>
<div class="figure align-center" id="id8">
<a class="reference external image-reference" href="../../gallery/mplot3d/polys3d.html"><img alt="../../_images/sphx_glr_polys3d_0011.png" src="../../_images/sphx_glr_polys3d_0011.png" style="width: 320.0px; height: 240.0px;" /></a>
<p class="caption"><span class="caption-text">Polys3d</span><a class="headerlink" href="#id8" title="Permalink to this image">¶</a></p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="bar-plots">
<span id="bar3d"></span><h3>Bar plots<a class="headerlink" href="#bar-plots" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<dl class="method">
<dt id="mpl_toolkits.mplot3d.Axes3D.bar">
<code class="descclassname">Axes3D.</code><code class="descname">bar</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>self</em>, <em>left</em>, <em>height</em>, <em>zs=0</em>, <em>zdir='z'</em>, <em>*args</em>, <em>**kwargs</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="reference internal" href="../../_modules/mpl_toolkits/mplot3d/axes3d.html#Axes3D.bar"><span class="viewcode-link">[source]</span></a><a class="headerlink" href="#mpl_toolkits.mplot3d.Axes3D.bar" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Add 2D bar(s).</p>
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<dt><strong>left</strong><span class="classifier">1D array-like</span></dt><dd><p>The x coordinates of the left sides of the bars.</p>
</dd>
<dt><strong>height</strong><span class="classifier">1D array-like</span></dt><dd><p>The height of the bars.</p>
</dd>
<dt><strong>zs</strong><span class="classifier">float or 1D array-like</span></dt><dd><p>Z coordinate of bars; if a single value is specified, it will be
used for all bars.</p>
</dd>
<dt><strong>zdir</strong><span class="classifier">{'x', 'y', 'z'}, default: 'z'</span></dt><dd><p>When plotting 2D data, the direction to use as z ('x', 'y' or 'z').</p>
</dd>
<dt><strong>**kwargs</strong></dt><dd><p>Other arguments are forwarded to <a class="reference internal" href="../../api/_as_gen/matplotlib.axes.Axes.bar.html#matplotlib.axes.Axes.bar" title="matplotlib.axes.Axes.bar"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">matplotlib.axes.Axes.bar</span></code></a>.</p>
</dd>
</dl>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="field-even field"><th class="field-name">Returns:</th><td class="field-body"><dl class="first last docutils">
<dt>mpl_toolkits.mplot3d.art3d.Patch3DCollection</dt><dd></dd>
</dl>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
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</dd></dl>
<div class="figure align-center" id="id9">
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<p class="caption"><span class="caption-text">Bars3d</span><a class="headerlink" href="#id9" title="Permalink to this image">¶</a></p>
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</div>
<div class="section" id="quiver">
<span id="quiver3d"></span><h3>Quiver<a class="headerlink" href="#quiver" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<dl class="method">
<dt id="mpl_toolkits.mplot3d.Axes3D.quiver">
<code class="descclassname">Axes3D.</code><code class="descname">quiver</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>X</em>, <em>Y</em>, <em>Z</em>, <em>U</em>, <em>V</em>, <em>W</em>, <em>/</em>, <em>length=1</em>, <em>arrow_length_ratio=.3</em>, <em>pivot='tail'</em>, <em>normalize=False</em>, <em>**kwargs</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="reference internal" href="../../_modules/mpl_toolkits/mplot3d/axes3d.html#Axes3D.quiver"><span class="viewcode-link">[source]</span></a><a class="headerlink" href="#mpl_toolkits.mplot3d.Axes3D.quiver" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Plot a 3D field of arrows.</p>
<p>The arguments could be array-like or scalars, so long as they
they can be broadcast together. The arguments can also be
masked arrays. If an element in any of argument is masked, then
that corresponding quiver element will not be plotted.</p>
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<dt><strong>X, Y, Z</strong><span class="classifier">array-like</span></dt><dd><p>The x, y and z coordinates of the arrow locations (default is
tail of arrow; see <em>pivot</em> kwarg).</p>
</dd>
<dt><strong>U, V, W</strong><span class="classifier">array-like</span></dt><dd><p>The x, y and z components of the arrow vectors.</p>
</dd>
<dt><strong>length</strong><span class="classifier">float, default: 1</span></dt><dd><p>The length of each quiver.</p>
</dd>
<dt><strong>arrow_length_ratio</strong><span class="classifier">float, default: 0.3</span></dt><dd><p>The ratio of the arrow head with respect to the quiver.</p>
</dd>
<dt><strong>pivot</strong><span class="classifier">{'tail', 'middle', 'tip'}, default: 'tail'</span></dt><dd><p>The part of the arrow that is at the grid point; the arrow
rotates about this point, hence the name <em>pivot</em>.</p>
</dd>
<dt><strong>normalize</strong><span class="classifier">bool, default: False</span></dt><dd><p>Whether all arrows are normalized to have the same length, or keep
the lengths defined by <em>u</em>, <em>v</em>, and <em>w</em>.</p>
</dd>
<dt><strong>**kwargs</strong></dt><dd><p>Any additional keyword arguments are delegated to
<a class="reference internal" href="../../api/collections_api.html#matplotlib.collections.LineCollection" title="matplotlib.collections.LineCollection"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">LineCollection</span></code></a></p>
</dd>
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<p class="caption"><span class="caption-text">Quiver3d</span><a class="headerlink" href="#id10" title="Permalink to this image">¶</a></p>
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<div class="section" id="d-plots-in-3d">
<span id="dcollections3d"></span><h3>2D plots in 3D<a class="headerlink" href="#d-plots-in-3d" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
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<span id="text3d"></span><h3>Text<a class="headerlink" href="#text" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<dl class="method">
<dt id="mpl_toolkits.mplot3d.Axes3D.text">
<code class="descclassname">Axes3D.</code><code class="descname">text</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>self</em>, <em>x</em>, <em>y</em>, <em>z</em>, <em>s</em>, <em>zdir=None</em>, <em>**kwargs</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="reference internal" href="../../_modules/mpl_toolkits/mplot3d/axes3d.html#Axes3D.text"><span class="viewcode-link">[source]</span></a><a class="headerlink" href="#mpl_toolkits.mplot3d.Axes3D.text" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Add text to the plot. kwargs will be passed on to Axes.text,
except for the <em>zdir</em> keyword, which sets the direction to be
used as the z direction.</p>
</dd></dl>
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<span id="dsubplots"></span><h3>Subplotting<a class="headerlink" href="#subplotting" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>Having multiple 3D plots in a single figure is the same
as it is for 2D plots. Also, you can have both 2D and 3D plots
in the same figure.</p>
<div class="versionadded">
<p><span class="versionmodified added">New in version 1.0.0: </span>Subplotting 3D plots was added in v1.0.0. Earlier version can not
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