[SciPy-user] plotting a surface

Andy Fraser afraser at lanl.gov
Mon Oct 1 14:47:09 EDT 2007


>>>>> "Tim" == Tim  <timmichelsen at gmx-topmail.de> writes:

    Tim> [...] One question though:

    Tim> How do I conceive surface plots in matplotlib or any other
    Tim> plotting module?  [...]

My solution is to:

   1. Write the data to a file.
   2. Open a pipe to gnuplot.
   3. Write gnuplot commands including "splot" to the pipe

It isn't pretty, but it works, and it gives me access to anything that
gnuplot can do.

Andy



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