Scatter3d plot

The scatter3d plot creates a three-dimensional scatter plot of the data.

import plopp as pp
import scipp as sc
import numpy as np

Scatter plot using a positions vector

The easiest way to generate a scatter plot is to use a coordinate of the data array that contains data of the vector3 dtype.

We first generate some fake data, meant to represent clusters of points in a three-dimensional space.

nclusters = 100
npercluster = 1000

position = np.zeros((nclusters, npercluster, 3))
values = np.zeros((nclusters, npercluster))

for n in range(nclusters):
    center = 500.0 * (np.random.random(3) - 0.5)
    r = 20.0 * np.random.normal(size=[npercluster, 3])
    position[n, :] = r + center
    values[n, :] = np.linalg.norm(r, axis=1) + n

da = sc.DataArray(
    data=sc.array(dims=['row'], values=values.flatten(), unit='K'),
    coords={
        'position': sc.vectors(
            dims=['row'], unit='m', values=position.reshape(nclusters * npercluster, 3)
        )
    },
)
da

scipp.DataArray (3.05 MB)

• Dimensions:
  • row: 100000
• Coordinates: (1)
  • position
    (row)
    vector3
    m
    [ 81.19802364 78.40876954 145.51684796], [152.55612729 69.23426576 158.82956655], ..., [-57.94198296 248.14573195 184.64028168], [-59.74414904 177.78250105 240.82777023]

    Values:
    array([[ 81.19802364,  78.40876954, 145.51684796],
           [152.55612729,  69.23426576, 158.82956655],
           [137.50788954,  71.7147167 , 143.26803835],
           ...,
           [-56.0495955 , 211.77625325, 204.289142  ],
           [-57.94198296, 248.14573195, 184.64028168],
           [-59.74414904, 177.78250105, 240.82777023]], shape=(100000, 3))

• Data: (1)
  • (row)
    float64
    K
    62.192, 18.241, ..., 141.474, 147.033

    Values:
    array([ 62.19221547,  18.24067673,  24.656658  , ..., 111.14377628,
           141.47362853, 147.03282253], shape=(100000,))

We then simply specify the name of the coordinate that contains the vector positions using the pos argument:

pp.scatter3d(da, pos='position', color='black', size=2)

Scatter plot with colorbar

To make a scatter plot with a colorbar mapping data values to colors, use cbar=True.

pp.scatter3d(da, pos='position', cbar=True, size=2)

Scatter plot using individual coordinates

It is also possible to create scatter plots using three individual coordinate names for the x, y, z dimensions:

time = np.linspace(0, 10, 50)
x = np.cos(time)
y = np.sin(time)

da = sc.DataArray(
    data=sc.array(dims=['row'], values=time),
    coords={
        'x': sc.array(dims=['row'], unit='m', values=x),
        'y': sc.array(dims=['row'], unit='m', values=y),
        'time': sc.array(dims=['row'], unit='s', values=time),
    },
)

pp.scatter3d(da, x='x', y='y', z='time', size=0.2, cbar=True)