[SciPy-user] surface plotting

John Hunter jdh2358 at gmail.com
Fri Nov 30 15:07:54 EST 2007


On Nov 30, 2007 2:00 PM, Joe Harrington <jh at physics.ucf.edu> wrote:

> It would be good to have a cookbook recipe about how to do surface
> plotting of a 2D numpy array in mayavi2.

For the purposes of your class, I find that a simple imshow or pcolor
of 2D data with a color map is usually good enough to visualize a 2D
array.  Surf doesn't really add much unless you are interactively
panning and zooming, when the movement generates extra 3D visual cues.

JDH



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