Hallo Ben Root, I put together some snippets
#----CODE---- import matplotlib.pyplot as plt from matplotlib.patches import Circle import mpl_toolkits.mplot3d.art3d as art3d from mpl_toolkits.mplot3d import Axes3D import numpy import matplotlib step = 0.04 maxval = 1.0 fig = plt.figure() ax = Axes3D(fig,aspect='equal') ri = 0.625 rj = 1.25 l = 5 ##CONE r = numpy.linspace(rj,rj,6) r[0]= numpy.zeros(r[0].shape) r[1] *= ri/rj r[5] *= ri/rj r[3]= numpy.zeros(r[3].shape) p = numpy.linspace(0,2*numpy.pi,50) R,P = numpy.meshgrid(r,p) X,Y = R*numpy.cos(P),R*numpy.sin(P) tmp=list() for i in range(50): tmp.append([0,0,l,l,l,0]) Z = numpy.array(tmp) ax.plot_surface(X, Z,Y, rstride=1, cstride=1, color="b") ##CIRCLES p=Circle((0,0),rj,color="red") ax.add_patch(p) art3d.patch_2d_to_3d(p, z=l, zdir="y") p=Circle((0,0),ri,color="red") ax.add_patch(p) art3d.patch_2d_to_3d(p, z=0, zdir="y") ax.set_ylim3d(-0.5, l+.5) ax.set_xlim3d(-l*0.5-0.5, l*0.5+0.5) ax.set_zlim3d(-l*0.5-0.5, l*0.5+0.5) plt.show() #----CODE---- greetz Frank Am 27.07.2010 21:36, schrieb Benjamin Root: > On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 2:25 PM, <copyrig...@gmx.de > <mailto:copyrig...@gmx.de>> wrote: > > Hallo, > > I got a depth problem with Axes3D. I made a plot_surface and add 2 > Circle object with add_patch and > mpl_toolkits.mplot3d.art3d.patch_2d_to_3d. > > The problem is that the circles are always in front. I upload a > picture here http://yfrog.com/nd3dproblemp . The gui is rotatable, > so I can't just remove the second Circle (like I did for the > screenshot). > > How to get right order to the object? > > greetz > > Frank > > > Frank, > > Could you please include a script that reproduces this? There have been > some issues like this reported before, but it would only occur at > certain viewing angles. Is this problem occurring regardless of what > viewing angle you are looking at the plot? It would be useful to have > an example that *always* looks bad for fixing purposes. > > Ben Root ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Palm PDK Hot Apps Program offers developers who use the Plug-In Development Kit to bring their C/C++ apps to Palm for a share of $1 Million in cash or HP Products. Visit us here for more details: http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;226879339;13503038;l? http://clk.atdmt.com/CRS/go/247765532/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
