mpl_toolkits.mplot3d.axes3d.Axes3D.scatter

Axes3D.scatter(xs, ys, zs=0, zdir='z', s=20, c=None, depthshade=True, *args, data=None, **kwargs)[source]

Create a scatter plot.

Parameters:

xs, ysarray-like

The data positions.

zsfloat or array-like, default: 0

The z-positions. Either an array of the same length as xs and ys or a single value to place all points in the same plane.

zdir{'x', 'y', 'z', '-x', '-y', '-z'}, default: 'z'

The axis direction for the zs. This is useful when plotting 2D data on a 3D Axes. The data must be passed as xs, ys. Setting zdir to 'y' then plots the data to the x-z-plane.

See also Plot 2D data on 3D plot.

sfloat or array-like, default: 20

The marker size in points**2. Either an array of the same length as xs and ys or a single value to make all markers the same size.

ccolor, sequence, or sequence of colors, optional

The marker color. Possible values:

• A single color format string.
• A sequence of colors of length n.
• A sequence of n numbers to be mapped to colors using cmap and norm.
• A 2D array in which the rows are RGB or RGBA.

For more details see the c argument of scatter.

depthshadebool, default: True

Whether to shade the scatter markers to give the appearance of depth. Each call to scatter() will perform its depthshading independently.

dataindexable object, optional

If given, the following parameters also accept a string s, which is interpreted as data[s] (unless this raises an exception):

xs, ys, zs, s, edgecolors, c, facecolor, facecolors, color

**kwargs

All other keyword arguments are passed on to scatter.

Returns:

pathsPathCollection

Examples using mpl_toolkits.mplot3d.axes3d.Axes3D.scatter

Plot 2D data on 3D plot

Plot 2D data on 3D plot

3D scatterplot

3D scatterplot

scatter(xs, ys, zs)

scatter(xs, ys, zs)