.. _mplot3d-text3d_demo: mplot3d example code: text3d_demo.py ==================================== .. plot:: /home/tcaswell/other_source/matplotlib/doc/mpl_examples/mplot3d/text3d_demo.py :: from mpl_toolkits.mplot3d import Axes3D import matplotlib.pyplot as plt fig = plt.figure() ax = fig.gca(projection='3d') zdirs = (None, 'x', 'y', 'z', (1, 1, 0), (1, 1, 1)) xs = (1, 4, 4, 9, 4, 1) ys = (2, 5, 8, 10, 1, 2) zs = (10, 3, 8, 9, 1, 8) for zdir, x, y, z in zip(zdirs, xs, ys, zs): label = '(%d, %d, %d), dir=%s' % (x, y, z, zdir) ax.text(x, y, z, label, zdir) ax.text(9, 0, 0, "red", color='red') ax.text2D(0.05, 0.95, "2D Text", transform=ax.transAxes) ax.set_xlim3d(0, 10) ax.set_ylim3d(0, 10) ax.set_zlim3d(0, 10) ax.set_xlabel('X axis') ax.set_ylabel('Y axis') ax.set_zlabel('Z axis') plt.show() Keywords: python, matplotlib, pylab, example, codex (see :ref:`how-to-search-examples`)