.. _mplot3d-hist3d_demo: mplot3d example code: hist3d_demo.py ==================================== .. plot:: /home/tcaswell/source/p/matplotlib/doc/mpl_examples/mplot3d/hist3d_demo.py :: ''' Demo of a histogram for 2 dimensional data as a bar graph in 3D. ''' from mpl_toolkits.mplot3d import Axes3D import matplotlib.pyplot as plt import numpy as np fig = plt.figure() ax = fig.add_subplot(111, projection='3d') x, y = np.random.rand(2, 100) * 4 hist, xedges, yedges = np.histogram2d(x, y, bins=4, range=[[0, 4], [0, 4]]) # Construct arrays for the anchor positions of the 16 bars. # Note: np.meshgrid gives arrays in (ny, nx) so we use 'F' to flatten xpos, # ypos in column-major order. For numpy >= 1.7, we could instead call meshgrid # with indexing='ij'. xpos, ypos = np.meshgrid(xedges[:-1] + 0.25, yedges[:-1] + 0.25) xpos = xpos.flatten('F') ypos = ypos.flatten('F') zpos = np.zeros_like(xpos) # Construct arrays with the dimensions for the 16 bars. dx = 0.5 * np.ones_like(zpos) dy = dx.copy() dz = hist.flatten() ax.bar3d(xpos, ypos, zpos, dx, dy, dz, color='b', zsort='average') plt.show() Keywords: python, matplotlib, pylab, example, codex (see :ref:`how-to-search-examples`)