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Fill between 3D lines#
Demonstrate how to fill the space between 3D lines with surfaces. Here wecreate a sort of "lampshade" shape.
importmatplotlib.pyplotaspltimportnumpyasnpN=50theta=np.linspace(0,2*np.pi,N)x1=np.cos(theta)y1=np.sin(theta)z1=0.1*np.sin(6*theta)x2=0.6*np.cos(theta)y2=0.6*np.sin(theta)z2=2# Note that scalar values work in addition to length N arraysfig=plt.figure()ax=fig.add_subplot(projection='3d')ax.fill_between(x1,y1,z1,x2,y2,z2,alpha=0.5,edgecolor='k')plt.show()
Tags:plot-type: 3Dplot-type: fill_betweenlevel: beginner