[Matplotlib-users] 3d surfaces in basemap?

2012-10-27 Thread Andreas Hilboll
Hi, maybe matplotlib is capable of doing this: I have two gridded datasets, A and B, for say Europe. Now I want to plot a 3d surface with the z-values given by dataset A. The surface should be colored using a given color palette and the values from dataset B. Any ideas on how to do this are

Re: [Matplotlib-users] 3d surfaces in basemap?

2012-10-27 Thread Ethan Gutmann
Hi Andreas, Someone else, please correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the only way to do this is to provide your own facecolors map. Pick your preferred color map and apply it to dataset B, then now use mplot3d plot_surface(X,Y,Z_A,facecolors=B_colors). Assuming you are running inside pylab

Re: [Matplotlib-users] 3d surfaces in basemap?

2012-10-27 Thread Benjamin Root
On Saturday, October 27, 2012, Andreas Hilboll wrote: Hi, maybe matplotlib is capable of doing this: I have two gridded datasets, A and B, for say Europe. Now I want to plot a 3d surface with the z-values given by dataset A. The surface should be colored using a given color palette and the