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Plotting a surface¶
The pygmt.Figure.grdview
method can plot 3-D surfaces with surftype="s"
. Here,
we supply the data as an xarray.DataArray
with the coordinate vectors x
and
y
defined. Note that the perspective
argument here controls the azimuth and
elevation angle of the view. We provide a list of two arguments to frame
— the
second argument, prepended with "z"
, specifies the \(z\)-axis frame attributes.
Specifying the same scale for the projection
and zcale
arguments ensures equal
axis scaling. The shading
argument specifies illumination; here we choose an azimuth of
45° with shading="+a45"
.
![grdview surface](../../_images/sphx_glr_grdview_surface_001.png)
Out:
<IPython.core.display.Image object>
import numpy as np
import pygmt
import xarray as xr
# Define an interesting function of two variables, see:
# https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ackley_function
def ackley(x, y):
return (
-20 * np.exp(-0.2 * np.sqrt(0.5 * (x ** 2 + y ** 2)))
- np.exp(0.5 * (np.cos(2 * np.pi * x) + np.cos(2 * np.pi * y)))
+ np.exp(1)
+ 20
)
# Create gridded data
INC = 0.05
x = np.arange(-5, 5 + INC, INC)
y = np.arange(-5, 5 + INC, INC)
data = xr.DataArray(ackley(*np.meshgrid(x, y)), coords=(x, y))
fig = pygmt.Figure()
# Plot grid as a 3-D surface
SCALE = 0.2 # [inches]
fig.grdview(
data,
frame=["a5f1", "za5f1"],
projection=f"x{SCALE}i",
zscale=f"{SCALE}i",
surftype="s",
cmap="roma",
perspective=[135, 30], # Azimuth southeast (135°), at elevation 30°
shading="+a45",
)
fig.show()
Total running time of the script: ( 0 minutes 6.291 seconds)