Re: [Matplotlib-users] using solid colours in surface plots

On 01/09/2012 05:30 PM, Benjamin Root wrote:
> The problem is that the faces themselves are transparent. But if I set 
> shade to False, it becomes solid, so that must be the solution.
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> What version of mpl are you using?  For me (on master) I never get 
> transparent faces.
I have 1.0.1 that comes with ubuntu. I was considering installing 1.1, 
but then I saw that the gtk backend is not supported, so I decided 
against it.

By the way, here is an example of the transparent faces (I think it 
won't show on the mailing list). I can definitely see through the 
surface. The code I used is

for y in range(ylen):
     for x in range(xlen):
         colors[x, y] = (1, 0.0, 1, 1.)

surf = ax.plot_surface(X, Y, Z, rstride=1, cstride=1, facecolors=colors,
         linewidth=0.1, antialiased=False, shade=True)