Question

I am trying to make a grid on the surface of my surfaceplot, now I know that wireframe does not work and the grid command is something else entirely. But how do you plot things with grids like this?

Here is the plot command I am using

fig = plt.figure()
ax = fig.add_subplot(111,projection="3d")

plot = ax.plot_surface(x,y,z, rstride=1, cstride=1, cmap=cm.jet, shade=True,
                       linewidth=0, antialiased=False)

Answer 1

From the (second) example in the matplotlib surface plot documentation, from which the image in the OP comes from (see the source code here), it is clear that the plot_surface function draws grid lines on surface plots by default. However, the plotting command

plot = ax.plot_surface(x,y,z, rstride=1, cstride=1, cmap=cm.jet, shade=True,
                   linewidth=0, antialiased=False)

sets the width of the grid lines to zero, so they are not visible, but are present, when using this call. Remove the linewidth=0 argument or set this to a value greater than 0.