Shows the plot using pylab.  Usually I won"t do imports in methods,
        but since plotting is a fairly expensive library to load and not all
        machines have matplotlib installed, I have done it this way.

def _get_3d_plot(self, label_stable=True):
        """
        Shows the plot using pylab.  Usually I won"t do imports in methods,
        but since plotting is a fairly expensive library to load and not all
        machines have matplotlib installed, I have done it this way.
        """
        import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
        import mpl_toolkits.mplot3d.axes3d as p3
        from matplotlib.font_manager import FontProperties
        fig = plt.figure()
        ax = p3.Axes3D(fig)
        font = FontProperties()
        font.set_weight("bold")
        font.set_size(20)
        (lines, labels, unstable) = self.pd_plot_data
        count = 1
        newlabels = list()
        for x, y, z in lines:
            ax.plot(x, y, z, "bo-", linewidth=3, markeredgecolor="b",
                    markerfacecolor="r", markersize=10)
        for coords in sorted(labels.keys()):
            entry = labels[coords]
            label = entry.name
            if label_stable:
                if len(entry.composition.elements) == 1:
                    ax.text(coords[0], coords[1], coords[2], label)
                else:
                    ax.text(coords[0], coords[1], coords[2], str(count))
                    newlabels.append("{} : {}".format(count, latexify(label)))
                    count += 1
        plt.figtext(0.01, 0.01, "\n".join(newlabels))
        ax.axis("off")
        return plt