I am trying to plot a sphere in front of a FancyBboxPatch in matplotlib. However, the sphere is covered up by the FancyBBoxPatch. My minimal working example is as follows:
#!/usr/bin/env python3
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from matplotlib.patches import FancyBboxPatch
from mpl_toolkits.mplot3d import Axes3D
import mpl_toolkits.mplot3d.art3d as art3d
if __name__ == '__main__':
fig = plt.figure()
axes = fig.add_subplot(111, projection = '3d')
for i in range(7):
for j in range(7):
box = FancyBboxPatch((i, j),
1, 1,
boxstyle = 'square,pad=-0.1',
edgecolor = (0.333, 0.333, 0.333),
facecolor = (0.333, 0.333, 0.333))
#zorder = 0)
axes.add_patch(box)
art3d.pathpatch_2d_to_3d(box, z = 0, zdir = 'x')
u = np.linspace(0, 2 * np.pi, 100)
v = np.linspace(0, np.pi, 100)
x = 0.3 * np.outer(np.cos(u), np.sin(v))
y = 0.3 * np.outer(np.sin(u), np.sin(v))
z = 0.3 * np.outer(np.ones(np.size(u)), np.cos(v))
surface = axes.plot_surface(x + 1, y + 1, z + 5, color = 'red')
#zorder = 100,
#alpha = 1)
axes.set_xlim3d(0, 14)
axes.set_ylim3d(0, 14)
axes.set_zlim3d(0, 14)
plt.show()
Which produces the plot:
In the plot, the sphere is completely covered by the FancyBboxPatches.
As you can see in portions of the script that are commented out, I have played around with the keyword arguments "alpha" and "zorder" (I don't want to change alpha for the FancyBboxPatches) to try to make the sphere be drawn on top of the FancyBboxPatches, but am unsuccessful.
How can I make the sphere be drawn in front of the FancyBboxPatches? Or will the answer be similar to Matplotlib 3D plot zorder issue in that I should try MayaVi?
