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3D Surface Plot

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Bruno Gonçalves
Feb 20, 2022
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Welcome to the latest post of the Viz4Sci substack. This week we continue the exploration of matplotlib’s 3D plotting capabilities that we started in a previous post by using plot_surface to generate a 3D view of the population distribution of the 48 lower United States.

We finalize by adding a custom light source and shading to make the resulting figure…

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