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        "\n# 3D surface (colormap)\n\nDemonstrates plotting a 3D surface colored with the coolwarm colormap.\nThe surface is made opaque by using ``antialiased=False``.\n\nAlso demonstrates using the `.LinearLocator` and custom formatting for the\nz axis tick labels.\n"
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        "import matplotlib.pyplot as plt\nimport numpy as np\n\nfrom matplotlib import cm\nfrom matplotlib.ticker import LinearLocator\n\nfig, ax = plt.subplots(subplot_kw={\"projection\": \"3d\"})\n\n# Make data.\nX = np.arange(-5, 5, 0.25)\nY = np.arange(-5, 5, 0.25)\nX, Y = np.meshgrid(X, Y)\nR = np.sqrt(X**2 + Y**2)\nZ = np.sin(R)\n\n# Plot the surface.\nsurf = ax.plot_surface(X, Y, Z, cmap=cm.coolwarm,\n                       linewidth=0, antialiased=False)\n\n# Customize the z axis.\nax.set_zlim(-1.01, 1.01)\nax.zaxis.set_major_locator(LinearLocator(10))\n# A StrMethodFormatter is used automatically\nax.zaxis.set_major_formatter('{x:.02f}')\n\n# Add a color bar which maps values to colors.\nfig.colorbar(surf, shrink=0.5, aspect=5)\n\nplt.show()"
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        ".. admonition:: References\n\n   The use of the following functions, methods, classes and modules is shown\n   in this example:\n\n   - `matplotlib.pyplot.subplots`\n   - `matplotlib.axis.Axis.set_major_formatter`\n   - `matplotlib.axis.Axis.set_major_locator`\n   - `matplotlib.ticker.LinearLocator`\n   - `matplotlib.ticker.StrMethodFormatter`\n\n.. tags::\n   plot-type: 3D,\n   styling: colormap,\n   level: advanced\n\n"
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