.. _sphx_glr_gallery_mplot3d_offset.py:


=========================
Automatic Text Offsetting
=========================

This example demonstrates mplot3d's offset text display.
As one rotates the 3D figure, the offsets should remain oriented the
same way as the axis label, and should also be located "away"
from the center of the plot.

This demo triggers the display of the offset text for the x and
y axis by adding 1e5 to X and Y. Anything less would not
automatically trigger it.




.. image:: /gallery/mplot3d/images/sphx_glr_offset_001.png
    :align: center





.. code-block:: python


    from mpl_toolkits.mplot3d import Axes3D
    import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
    import numpy as np


    fig = plt.figure()
    ax = fig.gca(projection='3d')

    X, Y = np.mgrid[0:6*np.pi:0.25, 0:4*np.pi:0.25]
    Z = np.sqrt(np.abs(np.cos(X) + np.cos(Y)))

    ax.plot_surface(X + 1e5, Y + 1e5, Z, cmap='autumn', cstride=2, rstride=2)

    ax.set_xlabel("X label")
    ax.set_ylabel("Y label")
    ax.set_zlabel("Z label")
    ax.set_zlim(0, 2)

    plt.show()

**Total running time of the script:** ( 0 minutes  0.030 seconds)



.. only :: html

 .. container:: sphx-glr-footer


  .. container:: sphx-glr-download

     :download:`Download Python source code: offset.py <offset.py>`



  .. container:: sphx-glr-download

     :download:`Download Jupyter notebook: offset.ipynb <offset.ipynb>`


.. only:: html

 .. rst-class:: sphx-glr-signature

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