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Igor Milovanovic
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Igor Milovanovic

Igor Milovanović is an experienced developer, with strong background in Linux system knowledge and software engineering education. He is skilled in building scalable data-driven distributed software rich systems. An evangelist for high-quality systems design, he has a strong interest in software architecture and development methodologies. Igor is always committed to advocating methodologies that promote high-quality software, such as test-driven development, one-step builds, and continuous integration. He also possesses solid knowledge of product development. With field experience and official training, he is capable of transferring knowledge and communication flow from business to developers and vice versa. Igor is most grateful to his girlfriend for letting him spend hours on work instead with her and being an avid listener to his endless book monologues. He thanks his brother for being the strongest supporter. He is also thankful to his parents for letting him develop in various ways to become a person he is today.
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Creating 3D bars


Although matplotlib is mainly focused on plotting and mainly in two dimensions, there are different extensions that enable us to plot over geographical maps, to integrate more with Excel and plot in 3D. These extensions are called toolkits in the matplotlib world. Toolkit is a collection of specific function that focuses on one topic, such as plotting in 3D.

Popular toolkits are Basemap, GTK Tools, Excel Tools, Natgrid, AxesGrid, and mplot3d.

We will explore more of mplot3d in this recipe. The toolkit mpl_toolkits.mplot3d provides some basic 3D plotting. Plots supported are scatter, surf, line, and mesh. Although this is not the best 3D plotting library, it comes with matplotlib and we are already familiar with the interface.

Getting ready

Basically, we still need to create a figure and add desired axes to it. The difference is that we specify 3D projection for the figure, and the axes we add are Axes3D.

Now, we can use almost the same functions for plotting. Of course, what...

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Igor Milovanovic

Igor Milovanović is an experienced developer, with strong background in Linux system knowledge and software engineering education. He is skilled in building scalable data-driven distributed software rich systems. An evangelist for high-quality systems design, he has a strong interest in software architecture and development methodologies. Igor is always committed to advocating methodologies that promote high-quality software, such as test-driven development, one-step builds, and continuous integration. He also possesses solid knowledge of product development. With field experience and official training, he is capable of transferring knowledge and communication flow from business to developers and vice versa. Igor is most grateful to his girlfriend for letting him spend hours on work instead with her and being an avid listener to his endless book monologues. He thanks his brother for being the strongest supporter. He is also thankful to his parents for letting him develop in various ways to become a person he is today.
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