mplot3d example code: tricontour3d_demo.py

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"""
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Triangular 3D contour plot
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Contour plots of unstructured triangular grids.

The data used is the same as in the second plot of trisurf3d_demo2.
tricontourf3d_demo shows the filled version of this example.
"""

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from mpl_toolkits.mplot3d import Axes3D
import matplotlib.tri as tri
import numpy as np

n_angles = 48
n_radii = 8
min_radius = 0.25

# Create the mesh in polar coordinates and compute x, y, z.
radii = np.linspace(min_radius, 0.95, n_radii)
angles = np.linspace(0, 2*np.pi, n_angles, endpoint=False)
angles = np.repeat(angles[..., np.newaxis], n_radii, axis=1)
angles[:, 1::2] += np.pi/n_angles

x = (radii*np.cos(angles)).flatten()
y = (radii*np.sin(angles)).flatten()
z = (np.cos(radii)*np.cos(angles*3.0)).flatten()

# Create a custom triangulation.
triang = tri.Triangulation(x, y)

# Mask off unwanted triangles.
xmid = x[triang.triangles].mean(axis=1)
ymid = y[triang.triangles].mean(axis=1)
mask = np.where(xmid*xmid + ymid*ymid < min_radius*min_radius, 1, 0)
triang.set_mask(mask)

fig = plt.figure()
ax = fig.gca(projection='3d')
ax.tricontour(triang, z, cmap=plt.cm.CMRmap)

# Customize the view angle so it's easier to understand the plot.
ax.view_init(elev=45.)

plt.show()

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