matplotlib 3d plot with changing labels

Question

So I have a 3d live-updating graph! it only shows one point at a time so I can easily track the motion of the point! But here is the problem:

No matter what I seem to do

Answer 1

An Axes3D object (your ax variable) has the following methods: set_xlim, set_ylim, and set_zlim. You could use these to fix the limits of your axes.

Documentation:

• set_xlim
• set_xlim3d

Edit

Using set_xlim, etc, works for me. Here is my code:

#!python2

from mpl_toolkits.mplot3d import Axes3D
from pylab import *

data = [
    [-1.982905,  3.395062,  8.558263,  '2012-01-18 14:00:03'],
    [ 0.025276, -0.399172,  7.404849,  '2012-01-18 14:00:04'],
    [-0.156906, -8.875595,  1.925565,  '2012-01-18 14:00:05'],
    [ 2.643088, -8.307801,  2.382624,  '2012-01-18 14:00:06'],
    [3.562265, -7.875230,  2.312898,  '2012-01-18 14:00:07'],
    [4.441432, -7.907592,  2.851774,  '2012-01-18 14:00:08'],
    [4.124187, -7.854146,  2.727229,  '2012-01-18 14:00:09'],
    [4.199698, -8.135596,  2.677706,  '2012-01-18 14:00:10'],
    [4.407856, -8.133449,  2.214902,  '2012-01-18 14:00:11'],
    [4.096238, -8.453822,  1.359692,  '2012-01-18 14:00:12'],
]

ion()
fig = figure()
ax = fig.add_subplot(111, projection='3d')
ax.set_xlabel('X Label')
ax.set_ylabel('Y Label')
ax.set_zlabel('Z Label')
ax.set_xlim((-10, 11))
ax.set_ylim((-10, 11))
ax.set_zlim((-10, 11))

lin = None
for x, y, z, t in data:
    ax.set_title(t)
    if lin is not None:
        lin.remove()
    lin = ax.scatter(x, y, z)
    draw()
    pause(0.1)

ioff()
show()

Edit 2

You could have a look at switching off autoscaling of axes which is on by default. Maybe this is overriding the set_lim methods.

Documentation:

• autoscale
• autoscale_view