matplotlib versions >= 3.9 show a slightly zoomed in 3D plot

NeLy-EPFL / DeepFly3D

Motion capture (markerless 3D pose estimation) pipeline and helper GUI for tethered Drosophila.

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matplotlib versions >= 3.9 show a slightly zoomed in 3D plot #55

Closed Dominic-DallOsto closed 1 month ago

Dominic-DallOsto commented 1 month ago

Problem

matplotlib v3.9 has the extra factor of 25/24 added to the zoom that earlier versions didn't have, which causes 3D plots to appear slightly zoomed in on newer versions

3.9 https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/blob/v3.9.0/lib/mpl_toolkits/mplot3d/axes3d.py#L380-L384
3.8 https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/blob/v3.8.4/lib/mpl_toolkits/mplot3d/axes3d.py#L417

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Dominic-DallOsto commented 1 month ago

Solution

This is explained in the matplotlib docs here. To force the old behaviour we just have to set plt.rcParams['axes3d.automargin'] = True