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3D surface with polar coordinates#

Demonstrates plotting a surface defined in polar coordinates.Uses the reversed version of the YlGnBu colormap.Also demonstrates writing axis labels with latex math mode.

Example contributed by Armin Moser.

importmatplotlib.pyplotaspltimportnumpyasnpfig=plt.figure()ax=fig.add_subplot(projection='3d')# Create the mesh in polar coordinates and compute corresponding Z.r=np.linspace(0,1.25,50)p=np.linspace(0,2*np.pi,50)R,P=np.meshgrid(r,p)Z=((R**2-1)**2)# Express the mesh in the cartesian system.X,Y=R*np.cos(P),R*np.sin(P)# Plot the surface.ax.plot_surface(X,Y,Z,cmap="YlGnBu_r")# Tweak the limits and add latex math labels.ax.set_zlim(0,1)ax.set_xlabel(r'$\phi_\mathrm{real}$')ax.set_ylabel(r'$\phi_\mathrm{im}$')ax.set_zlabel(r'$V(\phi)$')plt.show()
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Tags:plot-type: 3Dplot-type: polarlevel: beginner

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