Only plot part of a 3d figure using matplotlib - python

I got a problem when I was plotting a 3d figure using matplotlib of python. Using the following python function, I got this figure:
Here X, Y are meshed grids and Z and Z_ are functions of X and Y. C stands for surface color.
import numpy as np
from mpl_toolkits.mplot3d import Axes3D
from matplotlib import cm
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
def plot(X, Y, Z, Z_, C):
fig = plt.figure()
ax = fig.gca(projection='3d')
surf = ax.plot_surface(
X, Y, Z, rstride=1, cstride=1,
facecolors=cm.jet(C),
linewidth=0, antialiased=False, shade=False)
surf_ = ax.plot_surface(
X, Y, Z_, rstride=1, cstride=1,
facecolors=cm.jet(C),
linewidth=0, antialiased=False, shade=False)
ax.view_init(elev=7,azim=45)
plt.show()
But now I want to cut this figure horizontally and only the part whose z is between -1 and 2 remain.
What I want, plotted with gnuplot, is this:
I have tried ax.set_zlim3d and ax.set_zlim, but neither of them give me the desired figure. Does anybody know how to do it using python?

Nice conical intersections you have there:)
What you're trying to do should be achieved by setting the Z data you want to ignore to NaN. Using graphene's tight binding band structure as an example:
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from mpl_toolkits.mplot3d import Axes3D
# generate dummy data (graphene tight binding band structure)
kvec = np.linspace(-np.pi,np.pi,101)
kx,ky = np.meshgrid(kvec,kvec)
E = np.sqrt(1+4*np.cos(3*kx/2)*np.cos(np.sqrt(3)/2*ky) + 4*np.cos(np.sqrt(3)/2*ky)**2)
# plot full dataset
fig = plt.figure()
ax = fig.add_subplot(111, projection='3d')
ax.plot_surface(kx,ky,E,cmap='viridis',vmin=-E.max(),vmax=E.max(),rstride=1,cstride=1)
ax.plot_surface(kx,ky,-E,cmap='viridis',vmin=-E.max(),vmax=E.max(),rstride=1,cstride=1)
# focus on Dirac cones
Elim = 1 #threshold
E[E>Elim] = np.nan
fig = plt.figure()
ax = fig.add_subplot(111, projection='3d')
#ax.plot_surface(kx2,ky2,E2,cmap='viridis',vmin=-Elim,vmax=Elim)
#ax.plot_surface(kx2,ky2,-E2,cmap='viridis',vmin=-Elim,vmax=Elim)
ax.plot_surface(kx,ky,E,cmap='viridis',rstride=1,cstride=1,vmin=-Elim,vmax=Elim)
ax.plot_surface(kx,ky,-E,cmap='viridis',rstride=1,cstride=1,vmin=-Elim,vmax=Elim)
plt.show()
The results look like this:
Unfortunately, there are problems with the rendering of the second case: the apparent depth order of the data is messed up in the latter case: cones in the background are rendered in front of the front ones (this is much clearer in an interactive plot). The problem is that there are more holes than actual data, and the data is not connected, which confuses the renderer of plot_surface. Matplotlib has a 2d renderer, so 3d visualization is a bit of a hack. This means that for complex overlapping surfaces you'll more often than not get rendering artifacts (in particular, two simply connected surfaces are either fully behind or fully in front of one another).
We can get around the rendering bug by doing a bit more work: keeping the data in a single surface by not using nans, but instead colouring the the surface to be invisible where it doesn't interest us. Since the surface we're plotting now includes the entire original surface, we have to set the zlim manually in order to focus on our region of interest. For the above example:
from matplotlib.cm import get_cmap
# create a color mapping manually
Elim = 1 #threshold
cmap = get_cmap('viridis')
colors_top = cmap((E + Elim)/2/Elim) # listed colormap that maps E from [-Elim, Elim] to [0.0, 1.0] for color mapping
colors_bott = cmap((-E + Elim)/2/Elim) # same for -E branch
colors_top[E > Elim, -1] = 0 # set outlying faces to be invisible (100% transparent)
colors_bott[-E < -Elim, -1] = 0
# in nature you would instead have something like this:
#zmin,zmax = -1,1 # where to cut the _single_ input surface (x,y,z)
#cmap = get_cmap('viridis')
#colors = cmap((z - zmin)/(zmax - zmin))
#colors[(z < zmin) | (z > zmax), -1] = 0
# then plot_surface(x, y, z, facecolors=colors, ...)
# or for your specific case where you have X, Y, Z and C:
#colors = get_cmap('viridis')(C)
#colors[(z < zmin) | (z > zmax), -1] = 0
# then plot_surface(x, y, z, facecolors=colors, ...)
fig = plt.figure()
ax = fig.add_subplot(111, projection='3d')
# pass the mapped colours as the facecolors keyword arg
s1 = ax.plot_surface(kx, ky, E, facecolors=colors_top, rstride=1, cstride=1)
s2 = ax.plot_surface(kx, ky, -E, facecolors=colors_bott, rstride=1, cstride=1)
# but now we need to manually hide the invisible part of the surface:
ax.set_zlim(-Elim, Elim)
plt.show()
Here's the output:
Note that it looks a bit different from the earlier figures because 3 years have passed in between and the current version of matplotlib (3.0.2) has very different (and much prettier) default styles. In particular, edges are now transparent in surface plots. But the main point is that the rendering bug is gone, which is evident if you start rotating the surface around in an interactive plot.

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plotting an mXnXk matrix as a 3d model in python

I have a matrix generated by parsing a file the numpy array is the size 101X101X41 and each entry has a value which represents the magnitude at each point.
Now what I want to do is to plot it in a 3d plot where the 4th dimension will be represented by color. so that I will be able to see the shape of the data points (represent molecular orbitals) and deduce its magnitude at that point.
If I plot each slice of data I get the desired outcome, but in a 2d with the 3rd dimension as the color.
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EDIT:
Im trying to get the question clearer to what I desire.
Ive tried the solution suggested but ive received the following plot:
as one can see, due to the fact the the mesh has lots of zeros in it it "hide" the 3d orbitals. in the following plot one can see a slice of the data, where I get the following plot:
So as you can see I have a certain structure I desire to show in the plot.
my question is, is there a way to plot only the structure and ignore the zeroes such that they won't "hide" the structure.
the code I used to generate the plots:
x = np.linspase(1,101,101)
y = np.linspase(1,101,101)
z = np.linspase(1,101,101)
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plt.show()
Hope that now the question is much clearer, and that you'd appreciate the question enough now to upvote
Thanks.
you can perform the following:
fig = plt.figure()
ax = fig.add_subplot(111, projection='3d')
epsilon = 2.5e-2 # threshold
height, width, depth = data.shape
global_min = np.inf
global_max = -np.inf
for d in range(depth):
slice = data[:, :, d]
minima = slice.min()
if (minima < global_min): global_min = minima
maxima = slice.max()
if (maxima>global_max): global_max=maxima
norm = colors.Normalize(vmin=minima, vmax=maxima, clip=True)
mapper = cm.ScalarMappable(norm=norm, cmap=cm.jet)
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ax.scatter(points_lt_epsilon[0], points_lt_epsilon[1], d,
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ax.set_xlabel('X Label')
ax.set_ylabel('Y Label')
ax.set_zlabel('Z Label')
plt.title('Electron Density Prob.')
norm = colors.Normalize(vmin=global_min, vmax=global_max, clip=True)
cax, _ = colorbar.make_axes(ax)
colorbar.ColorbarBase(cax, cmap=cm.jet,norm=norm)
plt.savefig('test.png')
plt.clf()
What this piece of code does is going slice by slice from the data matrix and for each scatter plot only the points desired (depend on epsilon).
in this case you avoid plotting a lot of zeros that 'hide' your model, using your words.
Hope this helps
You can adjust the color and size of the markers for the scatter. So for example you can filter out all markers below a certain threshold by putting their size to 0. You can also make the size of the marker adaptive to the field strength.
As an example:
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from mpl_toolkits.mplot3d import Axes3D
f = lambda x,y,z: np.exp(-(x-3)**2-(y-3)**2-(z-1)**2) - \
np.exp(-(x+3)**2-(y+3)**2-(z+1)**2)
t1 = np.linspace(-6,6,101)
t2 = np.linspace(-3,3,41)
# Data of shape 101,101,41
data = f(*np.meshgrid(t1,t1,t2))
print(data.shape)
# Coordinates
x = np.linspace(1,101,101)
y = np.linspace(1,101,101)
z = np.linspace(1,101,41)
xx,yy,zz = np.meshgrid(x,y,z)
fig=plt.figure()
ax = fig.add_subplot(111, projection='3d')
s = np.abs(data/data.max())**2*25
s[np.abs(data) < 0.05] = 0
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plt.show()

Contour plotting complex numbers and conjugates

I am trying to make a contour plot in python with complex numbers (i am using matplotlib, pylab).
I am working with sharp bounds on harmonic polynomials, but specifically right now I am trying to plot:
Re(z(bar) - e^(z))= 0
Im(z(bar) - e^z) = 0
and plot them over each other in a contour in order to find their zeros to determine how many solutions there are to the equation z(bar) = e^(z).
Does anyone have experience in contour plotting, specifically with complex numbers?
import numpy as np
from matplotlib import pyplot as plt
x = np.r_[0:10:30j]
y = np.r_[0:10:20j]
X, Y = np.meshgrid(x, y)
Z = X*np.exp(1j*Y) # some arbitrary complex data
def plotit(z, title):
plt.figure()
cs = plt.contour(X,Y,z) # contour() accepts complex values
plt.clabel(cs, inline=1, fontsize=10) # add labels to contours
plt.title(title)
plt.savefig(title+'.png')
plotit(Z, 'real')
plotit(Z.real, 'explicit real')
plotit(Z.imag, 'imaginary')
plt.show()
EDIT: Above is my code, and note that for Z, I need to plot both real and imaginary parts of (x- iy) - e^(x+iy)=0. The current Z that is there is simply arbitrary. It is giving me an error for not having a 2D array when I try to plug mine in.
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import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
# making fake data
x = np.linspace(0, 2)
y = np.linspace(0, 2)
c = x[:,np.newaxis] * y
c2 = np.flipud(c)
# plot
fig, ax = plt.subplots(1, 1)
cont1 = ax.contour(x, y, c, colors='b')
cont2 = ax.contour(x, y, c2, colors='r')
cont1.clabel()
cont2.clabel()
plt.show()
For tom10, here is the plot this code produces. Note that setting colors to a single color makes distinguishing the two plots much easier.

Shifting the triangles order to match colormap

This question is a sequel of a previous one but regarding this time the colormap and the order of the triangle. I want to interpolate experimental data over a surface so as to enable a continuous colormap with however the surface known only at its corner node. To interpolate, I put a canonical example which works quite well but fails on real data.
Indeed as shown in the example below, the initial triangulation results in two triangles with a huge gap between them, cf first picture. When the interpolation is done, it doesn't get any better and the colormap is also lost, cf. second picture. The best so far is by interverting z and y to get adjacent triangles from the beginning which results in a successful interpolation. However as you might notice in the third picture, the surface is tilted by 90° which is normal since I switch y for z and vice-versa.
However when I switch back y and z in the tri_surf function with ax.plot_trisurf(new.x, new_z, new.y, **kwargs), the colormap doesn't follow, cf. picture 4.
I thought of rotating the colormap in somehow or generate new triangles from the interpolated ones with triang = tri.Triangulation(new.x, new_z) but without any success. So any idea or hint about properly doing the initial triangulation with two adjacent triangles, as for the third picture, but with the surface oriented correclty and ultimately the colormap proportional to the Y-value.
import numpy
from mpl_toolkits.mplot3d import Axes3D
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from matplotlib import cm
import matplotlib.tri as tri
x=numpy.array([0.00498316, 0.00498316, 0.00996632, 0.00996632])
y=numpy.array([-0.00037677, -0.00027191, -0.00078681, -0.00088475])
z=numpy.array([0., -0.0049926, 0., -0.00744763])
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ax = Axes3D(fig)
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ax.plot_trisurf(x, y, z, triangles=triang.triangles)
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fig = plt.figure()
ax = Axes3D(fig)
triang = tri.Triangulation(x, y)
refiner = tri.UniformTriRefiner(triang)
interpolator = tri.LinearTriInterpolator(triang, z)
new, new_z = refiner.refine_field(z, interpolator, subdiv=4)
kwargs = dict(triangles=new.triangles, cmap=cm.jet, norm=norm, linewidth=0, antialiased=False)
ax.plot_trisurf(new.x, new.y, new_z, **kwargs)
# Best so far
fig = plt.figure()
ax = Axes3D(fig)
triang = tri.Triangulation(x, z)
refiner = tri.UniformTriRefiner(triang)
interpolator = tri.LinearTriInterpolator(triang, y)
new, new_z = refiner.refine_field(y, interpolator, subdiv=4)
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ax.plot_trisurf(new.x, new.y, new_z, **kwargs)
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Apparently the automatic triangulation doesn't produce the right triangles for you, but you can specify how you want your triangles manually:
triang = tri.Triangulation(x, y, [[3,2,1],[1,2,0]])
# alternatively:
triang = tri.Triangulation(x, y, [[3,2,0],[1,3,0]])
These two ways give rather different results:
However, now the interpolation becomes awkward, because for some (x,y) there are multiple z-values.. One way of bypassing this issue is interpolating and plotting the 2 large triangles separately:
import numpy
from mpl_toolkits.mplot3d import Axes3D
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from matplotlib import cm
import matplotlib.tri as tri
def plot_refined_tri(x, y, z, ax, subdiv=4, **kwargs):
triang = tri.Triangulation(x, y)
refiner = tri.UniformTriRefiner(triang)
interpolator = tri.LinearTriInterpolator(triang, z)
new, new_z = refiner.refine_field(z, interpolator, subdiv=subdiv)
ax.plot_trisurf(new.x, new.y, new_z, triangles=new.triangles, **kwargs)
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kwargs = kwargs = dict(linewidth=0.2, cmap=cm.jet, norm=norm)
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idx = [1,2,0]
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plt.show()
Result:

Grid Lines below the contour in Matplotlib

I have one question about the grid lines matplotlib.
I am not sure if this is possible to do or not.
I am plotting the following graph as shown in the image.
I won't give the entire code, since it is involving reading of files.
However the important part of code is here -
X, Y = np.meshgrid(smallX, smallY)
Z = np.zeros((len(X),len(X[0])))
plt.contourf(X, Y, Z, levels, cmap=cm.gray_r, zorder = 1)
plt.colorbar()
...
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[i.set_linewidth(0) for i in ax.spines.itervalues()]
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Now, my questions is like this -
If I put the grid lines below the contour, they disappear since they are below it.
If I put the grid line above the contour, they looks like what they are looking now.
However, what I would like to have is the grid lines should be visible, but should be below the black portion of the contour. I am not sure if that is possible.
Thank You !
In addition to specifying the z-order of the contours and the gridlines, you could also try masking the zero values of your contoured data.
Here's a small example:
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
x = np.arange(-2*np.pi, 2*np.pi, 0.1)
y = np.arange(-2*np.pi, 2*np.pi, 0.1)
X, Y = np.meshgrid(x, y)
Z = np.sin(X) - np.cos(Y)
Z = np.ma.masked_less(Z, 0) # you use mask_equal(yourData, yourMagicValue)
fig, ax = plt.subplots()
ax.contourf(Z, zorder=5, cmap=plt.cm.coolwarm)
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ax.yaxis.grid(True, zorder=0)
And the output:

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