Python Plotly not showing 3d interactive plot

Question

I am using Spyder ide. I have plotly 5.5.0 installed on my pc. The following executes with no errors but does not show/popup the 3d interactive plot. Code:

import plotly.express as px
df = px.data.iris()
fig = px.scatter_3d(df, x='sepal_length', y='sepal_width', z='petal_width',
              color='species')
fig.show()

Daniel Althviz · Accepted Answer · 2022-01-26 17:37:20Z

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To be able to interact with the figure running from Spyder you will need to call show with the 'browser' renderer (this will show the figure on your default browser). The code provided with this change will look something like this:

import plotly.express as px
df = px.data.iris()
fig = px.scatter_3d(df, x='sepal_length', y='sepal_width', z='petal_width',
              color='species')
fig.show(renderer='browser')

answered Jan 26, 2022 at 17:37

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Mainland Over a year ago

Also I found the following solution somewhere online but yours is simple and good. ` import plotly.express as px from plotly.offline import plot import plotly fig = px.scatter_3d(df, x=xlbl, y=ylbl, z=zlbl, color=wlbl,opacity=0, color_discrete_sequence = plotly.colors.sequential.Viridis) temp_name = 'Temp_plot.html' plot(fig, filename = temp_name, auto_open=False) plot(fig)`

Mainland Over a year ago

Presently your solution renders a default color scale. How can I set it to viridis.

Daniel Althviz Over a year ago

Not sure about that but maybe a kwarg of plotly.express.scatter_3d could be useful. Maybe the color_continuous_scale or color_discrete_sequence: plotly.com/python-api-reference/generated/…

Mainland Over a year ago

Yes! color_continuous_scale = plotly.colors.sequential.Viridis solved the problem. I was assigning to the wrong kwarg. Thanks a lot.

Daniel Althviz Over a year ago

Awesome, glad to help!

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