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.. _sphx_glr_gallery_mplot3d_surface3d.py:


=====================
3D surface (colormap)
=====================

Demonstrates plotting a 3D surface colored with the coolwarm colormap.
The surface is made opaque by using ``antialiased=False``.

Also demonstrates using the `.LinearLocator` and custom formatting for the
z axis tick labels.

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.. code-block:: Python


    import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
    import numpy as np

    from matplotlib import cm
    from matplotlib.ticker import LinearLocator

    fig, ax = plt.subplots(subplot_kw={"projection": "3d"})

    # Make data.
    X = np.arange(-5, 5, 0.25)
    Y = np.arange(-5, 5, 0.25)
    X, Y = np.meshgrid(X, Y)
    R = np.sqrt(X**2 + Y**2)
    Z = np.sin(R)

    # Plot the surface.
    surf = ax.plot_surface(X, Y, Z, cmap=cm.coolwarm,
                           linewidth=0, antialiased=False)

    # Customize the z axis.
    ax.set_zlim(-1.01, 1.01)
    ax.zaxis.set_major_locator(LinearLocator(10))
    # A StrMethodFormatter is used automatically
    ax.zaxis.set_major_formatter('{x:.02f}')

    # Add a color bar which maps values to colors.
    fig.colorbar(surf, shrink=0.5, aspect=5)

    plt.show()





.. image-sg:: /gallery/mplot3d/images/sphx_glr_surface3d_001.png
   :alt: surface3d
   :srcset: /gallery/mplot3d/images/sphx_glr_surface3d_001.png, /gallery/mplot3d/images/sphx_glr_surface3d_001_2_00x.png 2.00x
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.. admonition:: References

   The use of the following functions, methods, classes and modules is shown
   in this example:

   - `matplotlib.pyplot.subplots`
   - `matplotlib.axis.Axis.set_major_formatter`
   - `matplotlib.axis.Axis.set_major_locator`
   - `matplotlib.ticker.LinearLocator`
   - `matplotlib.ticker.StrMethodFormatter`


.. _sphx_glr_download_gallery_mplot3d_surface3d.py:

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      :download:`Download Python source code: surface3d.py <surface3d.py>`


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