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Primary 3D view planes#
This example generates an "unfolded" 3D plot that shows each of the primary 3Dview planes. The elevation, azimuth, and roll angles required for each view arelabeled. You could print out this image and fold it into a box where each planeforms a side of the box.
importmatplotlib.pyplotaspltdefannotate_axes(ax,text,fontsize=18):ax.text(x=0.5,y=0.5,z=0.5,s=text,va="center",ha="center",fontsize=fontsize,color="black")# (plane, (elev, azim, roll))views=[('XY',(90,-90,0)),('XZ',(0,-90,0)),('YZ',(0,0,0)),('-XY',(-90,90,0)),('-XZ',(0,90,0)),('-YZ',(0,180,0))]layout=[['XY','.','L','.'],['XZ','YZ','-XZ','-YZ'],['.','.','-XY','.']]fig,axd=plt.subplot_mosaic(layout,subplot_kw={'projection':'3d'},figsize=(12,8.5))forplane,anglesinviews:axd[plane].set_xlabel('x')axd[plane].set_ylabel('y')axd[plane].set_zlabel('z')axd[plane].set_proj_type('ortho')axd[plane].view_init(elev=angles[0],azim=angles[1],roll=angles[2])axd[plane].set_box_aspect(None,zoom=1.25)label=f'{plane}\n{angles}'annotate_axes(axd[plane],label,fontsize=14)forplanein('XY','-XY'):axd[plane].set_zticklabels([])axd[plane].set_zlabel('')forplanein('XZ','-XZ'):axd[plane].set_yticklabels([])axd[plane].set_ylabel('')forplanein('YZ','-YZ'):axd[plane].set_xticklabels([])axd[plane].set_xlabel('')label='mplot3d primary view planes\n'+'ax.view_init(elev, azim, roll)'annotate_axes(axd['L'],label,fontsize=18)axd['L'].set_axis_off()plt.show()
Tags:plot-type: 3Dcomponent: axescomponent: subplotlevel: beginner
Total running time of the script: (0 minutes 1.084 seconds)