from mpl_toolkits.mplot3d import Axes3D import matplotlib.pyplot as plt import numpy as np # This example demonstrates mplot3d's offset text display. # As one rotates the 3D figure, the offsets should remain oriented # same way as the axis label, and should also be located "away" # from the center of the plot. # # This demo triggers the display of the offset text for the x and # y axis by adding 1e5 to X and Y. Anything less would not # automatically trigger it. fig = plt.figure() ax = fig.gca(projection='3d') X, Y = np.mgrid[0:6*np.pi:0.25, 0:4*np.pi:0.25] Z = np.sqrt(np.abs(np.cos(X) + np.cos(Y))) surf = ax.plot_surface(X + 1e5, Y + 1e5, Z, cmap='autumn', cstride=2, rstride=2) ax.set_xlabel("X-Label") ax.set_ylabel("Y-Label") ax.set_zlabel("Z-Label") ax.set_zlim(0, 2)