How to obtain 3D colored surface via Python?

Question

How to obtain the following surface via Matplotlib?

It is easy in matlab via:

mesh(peaks)

It seems matplotlib does not have an exac

Answer 1

While answering another question I found that you can easily do this using plot_surface to produce a color mapped surface, and then exchanging face and edge colors:

surf = ax.plot_surface(X, Y, Z, rstride=2, cstride=2, shade=False, cmap="jet", linewidth=1)
draw()
surf.set_edgecolors(surf.to_rgba(surf._A))
surf.set_facecolors("white")
show()

produces

The disadvantage this solution has over the other one is that the edges do not have smooth, per-pixel colouring, but one single color each.