
Python Data Analysis, Second Edition
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Two-dimensional plots are the bread and butter of data visualization. However, if you want to show off, nothing beats a good three-dimensional plot. I was once in charge of a software package that could draw contour plots and three-dimensional plots. The software could even draw plots that, when viewed with special glasses, would pop right in front of you.
The matplotlib API has the Axes3D
class for three-dimensional plots. By demonstrating how this class works, we will also show how the object-oriented matplotlib API works. The matplotlib Figure
class is a top-level container for chart elements:
Create a figure
object as follows:
fig = plt.figure()
Create an Axes3D
object from the figure
object:
ax = Axes3D(fig)
The years and CPU transistor counts will be our X
and Y
axes. It is necessary for us to create coordinate matrices from the years and CPU transistor counts arrays. Create the coordinate matrices with the NumPy meshgrid()
function:
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