Turn off shading in ax.bar3d

Hello everybody,

I created 3D-Plots with 3D bars in matplotlib. The bars are colored
according to a colormap.

Unfortunately, only vertical faces have the desired bright colors, whereas
the top sides of the bars are shaded darker to make it look more 3D.

This makes the colors a lot more difficult to see, depending on the
perspective.

What can I do in order to switch of shading or to add an ambivalent light
source?

Best regards
SquirrelSeq

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The one way to do it is to patch the source code in the following way.

in mpl_toolkits/mplot3d/axes3d.py, at around line 2355, replace the line:

sfacecolors = self._shade_colors(facecolors, normals)

with

sfacecolors = facecolors

Could you file a github issue requesting a keyword argument to turn this
on/off?

Cheers!
Ben Root

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On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 6:57 AM, SquirrelSeq <ralf.hauenschild@...624...>wrote:

Hello everybody,

I created 3D-Plots with 3D bars in matplotlib. The bars are colored
according to a colormap.

Unfortunately, only vertical faces have the desired bright colors, whereas
the top sides of the bars are shaded darker to make it look more 3D.

This makes the colors a lot more difficult to see, depending on the
perspective.

What can I do in order to switch of shading or to add an ambivalent light
source?

Best regards
SquirrelSeq

<http://matplotlib.1069221.n5.nabble.com/file/n41766/overlap_heatmap.png&gt;