""" =================================== 3D wireframe plots in one direction =================================== Demonstrates that setting rstride or cstride to 0 causes wires to not be generated in the corresponding direction. """ from mpl_toolkits.mplot3d import axes3d import matplotlib.pyplot as plt fig, (ax1, ax2) = plt.subplots( 2, 1, figsize=(8, 12), subplot_kw={'projection': '3d'}) # Get the test data X, Y, Z = axes3d.get_test_data(0.05) # Give the first plot only wireframes of the type y = c ax1.plot_wireframe(X, Y, Z, rstride=10, cstride=0) ax1.set_title("Column (x) stride set to 0") # Give the second plot only wireframes of the type x = c ax2.plot_wireframe(X, Y, Z, rstride=0, cstride=10) ax2.set_title("Row (y) stride set to 0") plt.tight_layout() plt.show()