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3D in matplotlib

One of the frustrating things about matplotlib is its lack of 3D plotting. If matplotlib were a mediocre library it wouldn' hurt. But it is a GREAT library and produces really good looking plots. So the lack of 3D plotting sometimes makes me want to go out and strangle somebody. There has however always been a furtive 3D plotting feature in matplotlib, and apparently, its being worked on some more. Yeehah! No more futzing with pyVtk.

Important links:
  1. Docs for 3D features
  2. Installing the svn code (that has all this goodness)
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  1. Henrik DalsagerDecember 1, 2010 at 4:12 AM

    badly written post..
    there is 3d support in matplotlib from 1.0, and there has been on svn for quite a while.

    mplot3d is now better integrated.

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  2. Kaushik GhoseDecember 6, 2010 at 8:22 PM

    Indeed, welcome progress in 3D plotting support in matplotlib has been made in the past year and a half since this post was written.

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