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Basic Wireframe Plot

```python deletable=true editable=true import plotly.plotly as py import plotly.graph_objs as go

import numpy as np

Creating the data

x = np.linspace(-5, 5, 50) y = np.linspace(-5, 5, 50) xGrid, yGrid = np.meshgrid(y, x) R = np.sqrt(xGrid 2 + yGrid 2) z = np.sin(R)

Creating the plot

lines = [] line_marker = dict(color='#0066FF', width=2) for i, j, k in zip(xGrid, yGrid, z): lines.append(go.Scatter3d(x=i, y=j, z=k, mode='lines', line=line_marker))

layout = go.Layout( title='Wireframe Plot', scene=dict( xaxis=dict( gridcolor='rgb(255, 255, 255)', zerolinecolor='rgb(255, 255, 255)', showbackground=True, backgroundcolor='rgb(230, 230,230)' ), yaxis=dict( gridcolor='rgb(255, 255, 255)', zerolinecolor='rgb(255, 255, 255)', showbackground=True, backgroundcolor='rgb(230, 230,230)' ), zaxis=dict( gridcolor='rgb(255, 255, 255)', zerolinecolor='rgb(255, 255, 255)', showbackground=True, backgroundcolor='rgb(230, 230,230)' ) ), showlegend=False, ) fig = go.Figure(data=lines, layout=layout) py.iplot(fig, filename='wireframe_plot')

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```python deletable=true editable=true
from IPython.display import display, HTML

display(HTML('<link href="//fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans:600,400,300,200|Inconsolata|Ubuntu+Mono:400,700" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />'))
display(HTML('<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://help.plot.ly/documentation/all_static/css/ipython-notebook-custom.css">'))

! pip install git+https://github.com/plotly/publisher.git --upgrade

import publisher
publisher.publish(
    '3d-wireframe.ipynb', 'python/3d-wireframe-plots/', 'Python Wireframe Plots | plotly',
    'How to make wireframe plots in Python',
    title= '3D Wireframe Plots in Python | plotly',
    name = '3D Wireframe Plots',
    has_thumbnail='true', thumbnail='thumbnail/wireframe.jpg',
    language='python',
    display_as='3d_charts', order=8,
    ipynb= '~notebook_demo/68')

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