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Is there a way to set_zticks in a customized way ? #14980
Description
Bug report
Bug summary
I'm unable to find anywhere that we can set the ztick like xtick and ytick or is there a way ?
Code for reproduction
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np
import math
from mpl_toolkits.mplot3d import Axes3D
fig = plt.figure()
ax = fig.add_subplot(111)
x= np.linspace(-math.pi,math.pi,30)
y= np.linspace(-math.pi,math.pi,30)
xx,yy = np.meshgrid(x,y)
X_grid, Y_grid = np.meshgrid(x,y)
print("X_grid shape: ",X_grid.shape)
zz =-2*(np.cos(xx) + np.cos(yy))
#ax = plt.axes(projection='3d')
ax = Axes3D(fig)
ax.plot_surface(xx,yy,zz)
plt.xticks([x[0],x[int(len(s)/2)], x[-1]], [r'$-\pi$', r'$0$', r'$-\pi$' ])
plt.yticks([y[0],y[int(len(s)/2)], y[-1]], [r'$-\pi$', r'$0$', r'$-\pi$' ])
plt.xlabel("kx")
plt.ylabel("ky")
Actual outcome
Please see this.
Expected outcome
In output z-axis should have the values like x and y axis ( [-math.pi,0,math.pi] ).
Matplotlib version
- Operating system: Windows 10
- Matplotlib version: '2.2.2'
- Matplotlib backend (
print(matplotlib.get_backend())): Qt5Agg - Python version: Python 3.6.5
Working on Spyder.
Activity
timhoffm commentedon Aug 5, 2019
There is no support for 3D plots through the pyplot interface. You need to work with the Axes object.
is equivalent to
and there are
ax.set_zticks()andax.set_zticklabels()methods as well.bhuvanshukla commentedon Aug 5, 2019
Where is the documentation for that, i'm unable to find it here. Please can you provide the link ?
[-]Is there a way to set ztick in a customized way ?[/-][+]Is there a way to set_zticks in a customized way ?[/+]WeatherGod commentedon Aug 5, 2019
ImportanceOfBeingErnest commentedon Aug 5, 2019
Presumably the problem is that while
.set_zticksand.set_zticklabelsare documented for theAxes3D, this is not the case for thexandyvariants, because they are inherited from the 2D axes?bhuvanshukla commentedon Aug 5, 2019
I will try this and update here possibly in around 13 hours from now.
bhuvanshukla commentedon Aug 6, 2019
The line
ax.set_zticks([z[0],z[int(len(z)/2)], z[-1]], [r'$-\pi$', r'$0$', r'$-\pi$' ])is still having no effect on the output. Note: I have used the statementax = Axes3D(fig).timhoffm commentedon Aug 6, 2019
As written here #14980 (comment) you must use
bhuvanshukla commentedon Aug 6, 2019
Thank you. really sorry for not trying that. And please if it is possible to add examples of the same there in the documentation can it be done or can someone pls update the examples there for z-axis, that would really help people out.
Sahuta commentedon Dec 8, 2021
Hi, related to this issue, is there any method like plt.rcParams['xtick.direction"] about z ticks?
WeatherGod commentedon Dec 8, 2021