3D Plot Surface With Custom Data

Question

Sample data like this:

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from mpl_toolkits.mplot3d as Axes3D
from matplotlib import cm
import numpy as np

x = np.linspace(1,4,10)
y = np.linspace(3,4,10)
z = np.linspace(10,20,7)
data = np.random.rand(10,7)

and custom plot like this:

xx = np.ones((10,7))
yy = np.ones((10,7))
zz = np.ones((10,7))
for i in range(7):
    xx[:,i] = x
    yy[:,i] = y
for i in range(10):
    zz[i,:] = z

And wireframe like this:

When I try this to get surface color:

ax = plt.figure().add_subplot(111,projection = '3d')
ax.plot_surface(xx,yy,zz,facecolor = cm.coolwarm(data))
plt.show()

Error like this:

ValueError: RGBA sequence should have length 3 or 4

I can't figure out why this is fail. I need this custom plot to replace Meshgrid (truly need this plot as my output). Can anyone solve this problem? Ty

Answer 1

ax.plot_surface (xx, yy, zz, cmap = cm.coolwarm) This will not generate an error. But what is the ultimate result you want to get? The surface painted in colors according to the values of the variable?