Python & Matplotlib: Make 3D plot interactive in Jupyter Notebook

Question

I use Jupyter Notebook to make analysis of datasets. There are a lot of plots in the notebook, and some of them are 3d plots.

I\'m wondering if it is possible

Answer 1

try:

%matplotlib notebook

see jakevdp reply here

EDIT for JupyterLab users:

Follow the instructions to install jupyter-matplotlib

Then the magic command above is no longer needed, as in the example:

# Enabling the `widget` backend.
# This requires jupyter-matplotlib a.k.a. ipympl.
# ipympl can be install via pip or conda.
%matplotlib widget
# aka import ipympl

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

plt.plot([0, 1, 2, 2])
plt.show()

Finally, note Maarten Breddels' reply; IMHO ipyvolume is indeed very impressive (and useful!).