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How to label axes with words instead of the numbers?

Wenchang Zhang
Posted 12 years ago

I'm making a 3D graph which one of the axis should be a item list instead of numbers, you can see what i mean from the picture, can anyone help me with it? I'm using ListPlot3D to generate the 3D picture. Thanks a lot! demo image
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David, That's very elegant! Thank you for sharing.
POSTED BY: Isaac Abraham
David Keith
David Keith
Posted 12 years ago
POSTED BY: David Keith

The following is a simple example for how I was thinking of approaching the problem. 

(* Mathematica 7 *)
    Plot3D[ Sin[x] Cos[x], {x, -Pi, Pi}, {y, -Pi, Pi}, 
    AxesLabel -> { 
    Rotate[ Grid[{ {"PEAK", " ","TROUGH"}(*Format as needed*)},
    Alignment -> Left
    ], -0.13Pi(*Rotate to align to x-axis for aesthetics*)], "Y", "Z"}, 
    Ticks -> {None(* Remove x-axis ticks *), Automatic(*Keep Y ticks*), Automatic(*Keep Z ticks*)}]

output
POSTED BY: Isaac Abraham
Wenchang Zhang
Wenchang Zhang
Posted 12 years ago

Thanks a lot, that works nice. I'm still wondering is there a way to Align item names along the axis automatically ?
POSTED BY: Wenchang Zhang
Wenchang Zhang
Wenchang Zhang
Posted 12 years ago

I think I can use ViewPoint value to calculate the rotation value to resolve this, Thanks!
POSTED BY: Wenchang Zhang

I think BarChart3D with the ChartLabels option is what you seek. BarChart3D
POSTED BY: Isaac Abraham
Wenchang Zhang
Wenchang Zhang
Posted 12 years ago

thanks, but i'm making a real 3d graph which has 3 dimensions of data, like this one below, couldn't use BarChart3D to do that, do you have any other suggestions? Thanks!

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POSTED BY: Wenchang Zhang
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