

.. _sphx_glr_gallery_mplot3d_wire3d_zero_stride.py:


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3D wireframe plots in one direction
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Demonstrates that setting rstride or cstride to 0 causes wires to not be
generated in the corresponding direction.




.. image:: /gallery/mplot3d/images/sphx_glr_wire3d_zero_stride_001.png
    :align: center





.. code-block:: python


    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()

**Total running time of the script:** ( 0 minutes  0.035 seconds)



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