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3D and animated plots

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Now that we have a good understanding of how Plotly works and the kinds of fairly sophisticated plots we're able to create using Plotly Express and the GraphObjects functionality, we're now going to look at a couple of more specialized types of charts that we can generate using Plotly. In particular, three-dimensional and animated plots. has an extensive support for 3D plots in particular using plotly express line 3D and scatter 3D interfaces for three-dimensional lines and three-dimensional scatter plots and also the graph object surface methods for to display three-dimensional surface plots. In all three-dimensional cases of course you can rotate the image simply by clicking and dragging the mouse around or the trackpad and of course the usual tools from the toolbar still work as you expect them. This makes it extremely easy to explore and visualize and see how your data looks in three dimensions, and to actually familiarize yourself with the dataset that you're displaying. In my…

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