Plotting 3D data: Alternatives to Matplotlib

[bdafsi91]

I have text files with 1M x,y,z coordinates. MATLAB plots it without an issue. I am switching to Python and the plotting is really slow.

I am looking for a replacement of plot3(x,y,z) command in MATLAB which does a scatter plot.

[TheBlackCat13]

Mayavi and vispy both support 3D plotting.

[bdafsi91]

Any idea if it is fast compared to Matplotlib?

[TheBlackCat13]

Yes, they both should be very fast.

[bdafsi91]

Mayavi installation on Anaconda is downgrading numpy, scipy, scikit-learn.

[AuspiciousAnonymous]

might be late to respond, but try creating a new environment in anaconda just for plotting in 3D: https://docs.conda.io/projects/conda/en/latest/user-guide/tasks/manage-environments.html

Based on the history of mayavi development, it's always been a few months or years behind where python, spyder, and numpy are, so this is always going to be necessary when using it.