I'm trying to plot a 3D curve on top of a 3D surface in Matplotlib, but when the curve is in front of the surface, it is barely visible (the curve is the image of the unit circle): There should be...

In Mayavi I would like to see the grid of the axes in the following plot # Source: <<https://scicomp.stackexchange.com/a/23148/10048>>. import numpy as np from mayavi import mlab # Te...

I have a 2D array Z that stores the height at that element's position. Other than using the method here in which I need to create array X and Y with the same size as Z, are there any simpler method...

I have a code in python to render a few spheres in python that looks like this: %matplotlib inline import numpy as np import matplotlib.pyplot as plt import random import mayavi from mayavi import ...

Is there a way to plot a 3 variable implicit equation using sympy. Going by docs it has only support for implicit 2d plots. Or are there any other options for plotting a 3d plot using python where ...

I want to change the color of a surface depending on another value (an ID) that takes discrete values (so I need a discrete colorbar). In the simplified example below I have drawn a sphere with 3 d...

The font size setting in Enthough Canopy Mayavi mlab appears to be broken. Neither the command: mlab.axes.label_text_property.font_size = 12 (e.g.) nor the direct menu font size command (advance...

Is there a bug in the Mayavi font rendering that prevents changing the font size? I am using the Mayavi2 GUI to change the font size of the axis labels on a volumetric plot. To get there I go to: ...

Using iPython Notebook, I have been able to bring up a globe of the Earth with code like: from mayavi import mlab from mayavi.sources.builtin_surface import BuiltinSurface ocean_blue = (0.4, 0.5,...

I am trying to learn mayavi2 for python and can not get my savefig to show my plots. I found this example code: from numpy import pi, sin, cos, mgrid dphi, dtheta = pi/250.0, pi/250.0 [phi,theta]...