Ben, I would be very happy to have this functionality. I think this would also make the 3D plots in the examples that matplot provides look a good deal nicer.
Let me know if you have any updates on this. -Holger On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 21:18, Benjamin Root <ben.r...@ou.edu> wrote: > > > On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 11:33 AM, Holger Brandsmeier > <holger.brandsme...@sam.math.ethz.ch> wrote: >> >> Ben, >> >> On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 17:06, Benjamin Root <ben.r...@ou.edu> wrote: >> > What values for rstride and cstride are you using? By default, >> > plot_surface() will sample every 10th point of the data array (for >> > performance reasons). Also, color interpoltion can be turned on by >> > setting >> > shade to True. >> >> I beleive I start to understand the underlying logic. If no color map >> is set and shading and antialiazing is set, then indeed the surface >> is nicely and smoothly displayed. When I provide a color map, then I >> seem to be able to assign one color for the whole polygon. I also find >> something like that in the code. >> >> In my case I want the z-coordinate to determine the color. I want to >> use a colormap like jet and no transparency. If I don't use the >> colormap argument, then I get shading, however everything is blue with >> shading depending on a lightsource.I don't really need a lightsource, >> but I would like non-constant colors per polygon. >> > > Yes, you have the logic correct (and probably better explained than I could > have done). This actually was an issue raised a couple of months ago in a > bit of a different context, but the solution wasn't entirely clear at that > point. However, looking at the code again (remember, I didn't write it > originally, and it had next to no comments), I think I see a fairly simple > solution. If I allow for the user to specify a light source of None, then I > could feed the data through a different function to "shade" the surface. I > will look into doing that, but it won't make it into the v1.1.0 release > (slated for tomorrow). > > Cheers! > Ben Root > > -- Holger Brandsmeier, SAM, ETH Zürich http://www.sam.math.ethz.ch/people/bholger ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2dcopy1 _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
