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anntzer opened this issue Aug 10, 2023 · 3 comments
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[Bug]: 3d interactive axes rotation is uninituitive #26492

anntzer opened this issue Aug 10, 2023 · 3 comments
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anntzer commented Aug 10, 2023 •
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Clicking and moving the mouse e.g. left-right over the top part of a 3d axes seems to always rotate the axes along the data z-direction, no matter what that direction is on screen. This means that if the data z-axis is oriented "normal to the screen", then the same mouse motion can rotate the axes visually clockwise or counterclockwise (first two cases below); if the data z-axis is oriented "in the screen" then the rotation is again different (last case below).

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Probably(?) mouse-interactive rotations should be relative to screen directions rather than data axes directions.

For the record, the axes above were generated with

a0, a1, a2 = plt.figure(figsize=(12, 4)).subplots(1, 3, subplot_kw=dict(projection="3d", xlabel="x", ylabel="y", zlabel="z"))
a0.elev, a0.azim, a0.roll = -90, 90, 0
a1.elev, a1.azim, a1.roll = 90, 90, 0
a2.elev, a2.azim, a2.roll = 0, 90, 0
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WeatherGod commented Aug 11, 2023 via email

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anntzer commented May 27, 2024

Superseded by #28288.

@anntzer anntzer closed this as completed May 27, 2024
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