import matplotlib.pyplot as plt from matplotlib import cm from matplotlib.ticker import LinearLocator import numpy as np from mpl_toolkits.mplot3d import Axes3D import matplotlib.pyplot as plt import numpy as np phi = np.linspace(0,2*np.pi, 256).reshape(256, 1) # the angle of the projection in the xy-plane theta = np.linspace(0, np.pi, 256).reshape(-1, 256) # the angle from the polar axis, ie the polar angle radius = 4 # Transformation formulae for a spherical coordinate system. ratio=3 x = ratio*radius*np.sin(theta)*np.cos(phi) y = radius*np.sin(theta)*np.sin(phi) z = radius*np.cos(theta) fig = plt.figure() # Square figure ax = fig.add_subplot(111, projection='3d') ax.plot_surface(x, y, z, color='b') ax.set_box_aspect([ratio,1,1])