Volumetric slice plot

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Hello everyone,

I have been using Matplotlib for a while and I have to make a Volumetric slice plot. I created 2d images by using imshow() but couldnt find anything to create 3d image with those 2d ones.

I hope we (Matplotlib user’s) have a solution for this.

Thanks alot

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2011/5/22 burak nebioğlu <buraknebioglu@…287…>

Hello everyone,

I have been using Matplotlib for a while and I have to make a Volumetric slice plot. I created 2d images by using imshow() but couldnt find anything to create 3d image with those 2d ones.

I hope we (Matplotlib user’s) have a solution for this.

Thanks alot

Not with imshow, but something might be possible with contourf3d. I haven’t tried it out in this way, but with the development branch of matplotlib, I recently added a feature to be able to “squash” contourf plots to a particular offset. See this demo image:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7325604/newcontourf3d.png

With this feature, you could contourf3d 2D slices of your 3D data and just set the zoffset to the appropriate location. I attached some demo code. The data is only 2D, so I can’t demonstrate exactly what you want, but this should give you a good idea of where to go.

Remember, this feature is new, and is only found in the master branch on github.

I hope this helps!
Ben Root

contourf3d_demo2.rst (890 Bytes)