.. DO NOT EDIT. .. THIS FILE WAS AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED BY SPHINX-GALLERY. .. TO MAKE CHANGES, EDIT THE SOURCE PYTHON FILE: .. "gallery/mplot3d/contour3d_3.py" .. LINE NUMBERS ARE GIVEN BELOW. .. only:: html .. meta:: :keywords: codex .. note:: :class: sphx-glr-download-link-note :ref:`Go to the end ` to download the full example code .. rst-class:: sphx-glr-example-title .. _sphx_glr_gallery_mplot3d_contour3d_3.py: ===================================== Project contour profiles onto a graph ===================================== Demonstrates displaying a 3D surface while also projecting contour 'profiles' onto the 'walls' of the graph. See :doc:`contourf3d_2` for the filled version. .. GENERATED FROM PYTHON SOURCE LINES 9-32 .. image-sg:: /gallery/mplot3d/images/sphx_glr_contour3d_3_001.png :alt: contour3d 3 :srcset: /gallery/mplot3d/images/sphx_glr_contour3d_3_001.png, /gallery/mplot3d/images/sphx_glr_contour3d_3_001_2_00x.png 2.00x :class: sphx-glr-single-img .. code-block:: Python import matplotlib.pyplot as plt from mpl_toolkits.mplot3d import axes3d ax = plt.figure().add_subplot(projection='3d') X, Y, Z = axes3d.get_test_data(0.05) # Plot the 3D surface ax.plot_surface(X, Y, Z, edgecolor='royalblue', lw=0.5, rstride=8, cstride=8, alpha=0.3) # Plot projections of the contours for each dimension. By choosing offsets # that match the appropriate axes limits, the projected contours will sit on # the 'walls' of the graph. ax.contour(X, Y, Z, zdir='z', offset=-100, cmap='coolwarm') ax.contour(X, Y, Z, zdir='x', offset=-40, cmap='coolwarm') ax.contour(X, Y, Z, zdir='y', offset=40, cmap='coolwarm') ax.set(xlim=(-40, 40), ylim=(-40, 40), zlim=(-100, 100), xlabel='X', ylabel='Y', zlabel='Z') plt.show() .. _sphx_glr_download_gallery_mplot3d_contour3d_3.py: .. only:: html .. container:: sphx-glr-footer sphx-glr-footer-example .. container:: sphx-glr-download sphx-glr-download-jupyter :download:`Download Jupyter notebook: contour3d_3.ipynb ` .. container:: sphx-glr-download sphx-glr-download-python :download:`Download Python source code: contour3d_3.py ` .. only:: html .. rst-class:: sphx-glr-signature `Gallery generated by Sphinx-Gallery `_