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Basic Wireframe Plot

python

import plotly.plotly as py
import plotly.graph_objs as go

import numpy as np

# Creating the data
x = np.linspace(-5, 5, 50)
y = np.linspace(-5, 5, 50)
xGrid, yGrid = np.meshgrid(y, x)
R = np.sqrt(xGrid ** 2 + yGrid ** 2)
z = np.sin(R)

# Creating the plot
lines = []
line_marker = dict(color='#0066FF', width=2)
for i, j, k in zip(xGrid, yGrid, z):
    lines.append(go.Scatter3d(x=i, y=j, z=k, mode='lines', line=line_marker))

layout = go.Layout(
    title='Wireframe Plot',
    scene=dict(
        xaxis=dict(
            gridcolor='rgb(255, 255, 255)',
            zerolinecolor='rgb(255, 255, 255)',
            showbackground=True,
            backgroundcolor='rgb(230, 230,230)'
        ),
        yaxis=dict(
            gridcolor='rgb(255, 255, 255)',
            zerolinecolor='rgb(255, 255, 255)',
            showbackground=True,
            backgroundcolor='rgb(230, 230,230)'
        ),
        zaxis=dict(
            gridcolor='rgb(255, 255, 255)',
            zerolinecolor='rgb(255, 255, 255)',
            showbackground=True,
            backgroundcolor='rgb(230, 230,230)'
        )
    ),
    showlegend=False,
)
fig = go.Figure(data=lines, layout=layout)
py.iplot(fig, filename='wireframe_plot')

Reference

See https://plot.ly/python/reference/#scatter3d for more information!

python

from IPython.display import display, HTML

display(HTML('<link href="//fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans:600,400,300,200|Inconsolata|Ubuntu+Mono:400,700" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />'))
display(HTML('<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://help.plot.ly/documentation/all_static/css/ipython-notebook-custom.css">'))

! pip install git+https://github.com/plotly/publisher.git --upgrade

import publisher
publisher.publish(
    '3d-wireframe.ipynb', 'python/3d-wireframe-plots/', 'Python Wireframe Plots | plotly',
    'How to make wireframe plots in Python',
    title= '3D Wireframe Plots in Python | plotly',
    name = '3D Wireframe Plots',
    has_thumbnail='true', thumbnail='thumbnail/wireframe.jpg',
    language='python',
    display_as='3d_charts', order=8,
    ipynb= '~notebook_demo/68')

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