e-bands scatter3d

This example shows how to plot a particular “band” in 3D with matplotlib scatter3D. The color of the point gives the energy of the state wrt to the Fermi level.

Out:

/Users/gmatteo/git_repos/pymatgen/pymatgen/util/plotting.py:550: UserWarning: Matplotlib is currently using agg, which is a non-GUI backend, so cannot show the figure.
  plt.show()

from abipy import abilab
import abipy.data as abidata

# Open the GSR file and extract the band structure.
with abilab.abiopen(abidata.ref_file("ni_kpath_GSR.nc")) as ncfile:
    ncfile.ebands.plot_scatter3d(band=9, spin=0)