Roll and offset around viewpoint with Axes3D

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As for the roll issue described below :

how hard would it be to implement something similar to

tr = Affine2D().scale(2, 1).rotate_deg(30)

inside mplot3D ? Where should I start ?

All I want basically is define my viewpoint with 6 parameters (elev, azim,
distance, roll, pitch and yaw), and not just 2 (elev,azim). I know it can
be done interactively, but I want(need) to script it.

Any suggestions ?

Fréd

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On Sun, May 1, 2011 8:26 pm, Frederic Vogt wrote:

Hello,

I am using the scatter function and axes3D. I can define my viewpoint on
my data points using the elev and azim parameters. But I am looking for
more specification of the viewpoint : namely, I want to roll (i.e. rotate
around the view axis) and offset it (i.e. get sideways, not rotate around
my data points).

Is there any way to do it ? At the moment, I am using transformation
matrices applied to my data points to reproduce the roll and offset.
Ultimately, I want to rotate and offset both the data points and axis, but
the transformation matrices only impact the data point.

Hence my question : any way to roll and offset around a viewpoint with
Axes3D ? I don't want to do this interactively, I want to be able to
program it.

Thanks, and cheers !

Fréd

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Fred,

Ideally, it should be possible to redefine mplot3d’s transformations so that this is possible within matplotlib’s current framework… if mplot3d actually used transforms like the rest of matplotlib. Unfortunately, a lot of stuff is hard-coded. You could take a look at the proj3d.py file in matplotlib/lib/mpl_toolkits/mplot3d. The event handling code is in axes3d.py in the same directory. Note that things are a bit of a mess, and if you want to help me out with improving it, I would suggest working off of the master branch on github.

I have also been working towards improving matplotlib’s transforms framework so that it could one day be capable of handling N-D inputs (right now it assumes 1-D). Once the transforms framework gets improved, then I anticipate getting mplot3d updated to use real transforms, which should make your goal a lot easier. But I don’t see that happening for a while now.

So, in the meantime, I would welcome any and all patches to improve the current mplot3d code.

Ben Root

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On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 6:32 PM, Frederic Vogt <fvogt@…2991…> wrote:

As for the roll issue described below :

how hard would it be to implement something similar to

tr = Affine2D().scale(2, 1).rotate_deg(30)

inside mplot3D ? Where should I start ?

All I want basically is define my viewpoint with 6 parameters (elev, azim,

distance, roll, pitch and yaw), and not just 2 (elev,azim). I know it can

be done interactively, but I want(need) to script it.

Any suggestions ?

Fréd