Re: [Matplotlib-users] Sampling a 3D plane to 2D data

On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 12:19 AM, Christoph Piefke <
anm...@du...> wrote:

> Hello everybody,
>
> I have a problem transferring from 3D data to a 2D representation.
> I used mayavi to define a cut plane through a volume data set and got
> the xyz
> coordinates for the points on the plane and the data at each point.
>
> Now I would like to make a contour plot of that data in matplotlib.
>
> My first try was rotating the normal of the cut plane parallel to the
> z-axes and leaving the data unchanged.
> Unfortunately, this changed the number of grid points, so I do not know
> how to fit these both sets together.
>
> Is there a convenient way how to sample these 3d data and put it on a 2d
> grid?
>
> Thank you very much in advance, Chris
>
>
I have attached an example that was provided by a fellow user recently that
might be of use.  I am seeing how to either modify it to include it into
mplot3d or to at least include it in the gallary examples.

I hope it is helpful to you!

Ben Root