René's URL Explorer Experiment

{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"add third angle to view_init()","articleBody":"\u003c!--To help us understand and resolve your issue, please fill out the form to the best of your ability.--\u003e\r\n\u003c!--You can feel free to delete the sections that do not apply.--\u003e\r\n\r\n### Bug report\r\n\r\n**Bug summary**\r\n\r\n[mpl_toolkits.mplot3d.axes3d.Axes3D.view_init](https://matplotlib.org/mpl_toolkits/mplot3d/api.html#mpl_toolkits.mplot3d.axes3d.Axes3D.view_init)\r\nprovides a means to set the elevation and the azimuth, but the z-axis is always aligned with the vertical camera axis.\r\nA third angle would be required to permit any view.\r\n\r\nThe issue was reported on [stackoverflow](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34812843/interchange-location-of-y-and-z-axis-in-3d-matplotlib-plot) 3.5 years ago.\r\n\r\n**Code for reproduction**\r\n\r\n\u003c!--A minimum code snippet required to reproduce the bug.\r\nPlease make sure to minimize the number of dependencies required, and provide\r\nany necessary plotted data.\r\nAvoid using threads, as Matplotlib is (explicitly) not thread-safe.--\u003e\r\n\r\n```python\r\nimport matplotlib.pyplot as plt\r\nfrom mpl_toolkits.mplot3d import Axes3D\r\n\r\nfig = plt.figure()\r\nax = Axes3D(fig)\r\n\r\nax.set_xlabel('x')\r\nax.set_ylabel('y')\r\nax.set_zlabel('z')\r\nplt.show()\r\n```\r\n\r\n**Actual outcome**\r\n\r\n\u003c!--The output produced by the above code, which may be a screenshot, console output, etc.--\u003e\r\n\r\n![Figure_1](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/12622691/58944759-c01af080-8782-11e9-9c1a-1465e18cdd05.png)\r\n\r\nNow, however hard you try to rotate the plot interactively or what angles you set in `ax.view_init()`, you will never be able to get the z-axis in a horizontalish position that is required to produce the plot below:  \r\n\r\n**Expected outcome**\r\n\r\n\u003c!--A description of the expected outcome from the code snippet--\u003e\r\n\u003c!--If this used to work in an earlier version of Matplotlib, please note the version it used to work on--\u003e\r\n\r\nBy rotating interactively or via `ax.view_init()` one should be able to obtain this view below. Unfortunately, this is not possible.\r\n![Figure_2](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/12622691/58944932-17b95c00-8783-11e9-85a0-aab508d19706.png)\r\n\r\n\r\n**Matplotlib version**\r\n\u003c!--Please specify your platform and versions of the relevant libraries you are using:--\u003e\r\n  * Operating system: Ubuntu 16.04\r\n  * Matplotlib version:  3.1.0, py37h5429711_0 \r\n  * Matplotlib backend: Qt5Agg\r\n  * Python version: 3.7.3 (conda)\r\n\r\n\u003c!--Please tell us how you installed matplotlib and python e.g., from source, pip, conda--\u003e\r\n\u003c!--If you installed from conda, please specify which channel you used if not the default--\u003e\r\n\r\n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/baloe","@type":"Person","name":"baloe"},"datePublished":"2019-06-05T09:19:43.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":9},"url":"https://github.com/14453/matplotlib/issues/14453"}