%pylab inline import numpy as np from scipy.interpolate import splprep, splev import matplotlib.pyplot as plt import mayavi.mlab as mplt from mpl_toolkits.mplot3d import Axes3D trajectory = np.array([[ 0, 0, 0], [ 0, 0, -100], [ 0, 0, -200], [ 5, 0, -300], [ 10, 10, -400], [ 20, 20, -500], [ 40, 80, -650], [ 160, 160, -700], [ 600, 400, -800], [1500, 960, -800]]) x = trajectory[:,0] y = trajectory[:,1] z = trajectory[:,2] smoothness = 3.0 spline_order = 3 nest = -1 # estimate of number of knots needed (-1 = maximal) knot_points, u = splprep([x,y,z], s=smoothness, k=spline_order, nest=-1) # Evaluate spline, including interpolated points x_int, y_int, z_int = splev(np.linspace(0, 1, 400), knot_points) plt.gca(projection='3d') plt.plot(x_int, y_int, z_int, color='grey', lw=3, alpha=0.75) plt.show() number_of_fracs = 6 x_frac, y_frac, z_frac = splev(np.linspace(0.33, 1, number_of_fracs), knot_points) ax = plt.axes(projection='3d') ax.plot(x_int, y_int, z_int, color='grey', lw=3, alpha=0.75) ax.scatter(x_frac, y_frac, z_frac, s=100, c='grey') plt.show() stage_color = [] for i in np.arange(number_of_fracs): color = (1.0, 0.1, 0.1) stage_color.append(np.roll(color, i)) stage_color = tuple(map(tuple, stage_color)) frac_dims = [] half_extents = [500, 1000, 250] for i in range(number_of_fracs): for j in range(len(half_extents)): dim = np.random.rand(3)[j] * half_extents[j] frac_dims.append(dim) frac_dims = np.reshape(frac_dims, (number_of_fracs, 3)) size_scalar = 100000 mplt.plot3d(x_int, y_int, z_int, tube_radius=10) for i in range(number_of_fracs): x_cloud = frac_dims[i,0] * (rand(100) - 0.5) y_cloud = frac_dims[i,1] * (rand(100) - 0.5) z_cloud = frac_dims[i,2] * (rand(100) - 0.5) x_event = x_frac[i] + x_cloud y_event = y_frac[i] + y_cloud z_event = z_frac[i] + z_cloud # Let's make the size of each point inversely proportional # to the distance from the frac port size = size_scalar / ((x_cloud**2 + y_cloud**2 + z_cloud**2)**0.002) mplt.points3d(x_event, y_event, z_event, size, mode='sphere', colormap='jet')