# How to color a 3d plot by z-level?

 1 I'd like to color a 3d plot based on z-level. I think this is easy to do in Maple or Mathematica, but I've been searching the web for help on doing this in Sage and can't find anything to help with plot3d or implicit_plot3d. Here's the implicit_plot3d I'm using. var('x,y,z') implicit_plot3d(x^2-y^2*z == 0,(x,-4,4),(y,-4,4),(z,-4,4)).show(mesh=True)  Also, are there color maps in Sage that produce plots with colors and lighting similar to the default in Mathematica? asked May 09 '12 calc314 2200 ● 7 ● 25 ● 62 Niles also eventually opened up the possibly relevant http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/12212kcrisman (Feb 24)

 1 I asked a similar question about using a colormap for implicit_plot3d almost a year ago, and it is still open. @schilly did show how to use matplotlib colormaps for plot3d though, and it's pretty cool: sage: var('r v') sage: cmsel = [colormaps['autumn'](i) for i in sxrange(0,1,0.05)] sage: p = plot3d(0.2*(r**2 + v**2) + cos(2*r)*sin(2*v),(r,-2,2), (v,-2,2), adaptive=True, color=cmsel) sage: p.show(aspect_ratio=(1,1,1), figsize=[7,3])  And, as @jason-grout said, you can see all of the available colormaps with colormaps.keys(). If you do figure out some way to use colormaps with implicit 3d plots, I would love to hear about it! posted May 10 '12 niles 3605 ● 7 ● 45 ● 101 http://nilesjohnson.net/ Wow! That does a great job. It would still be great to have it built into the plot3d and implicit_plot3d commands so that it is more friendly and intuitive.calc314 (May 10 '12)
 0 Have a look at this. Is this what you are looking for? You can run matplotlib scripts in sage. http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/examples/mplot3d/surface3d_demo.html posted May 09 '12 Shashank 1720 ● 8 ● 30 ● 62 That code does produce some good looking plots. However, it is too involved for me to use with calculus students without writing some sort of wrapper for it. Also, I definitely cannot take this as a solution to a colleague who is not an expert programmer. Are there simpler options to get this result?calc314 (May 10 '12)

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