Animating 3d scatterplot in matplotlib

Question

I\'m trying to get a 3d animation of a scatterplot in matplotlib, based off the 2d scatterplot animation posted here and the 3d line plot posted here.

The problems a

Answer 1

Found the solution finally, here is how to update points w/o touching colors:

from mpl_toolkits.mplot3d.art3d import juggle_axes
scat._offsets3d = juggle_axes(xs, ys, zs, 'z')

this is internally done by set_3d_properties along with re-initializing colors