I am trying to plot a perfectly smooth sphere in python using matplotlib. I have been using the following code:
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from mpl_toolkits.mplot3d import Axes3D
import numpy as np
fig = plt.figure(1)
ax = fig.add_subplot(111, projection='3d')
u = np.linspace(0, 2 * np.pi, 100)
v = np.linspace(0, np.pi, 100)
x = np.outer(np.cos(u), np.sin(v))
y = np.outer(np.sin(u), np.sin(v))
z = np.outer(np.ones(np.size(u)), np.cos(v))
ax.plot_surface(x, y, z, linewidth=0.0)
plt.show()
The plot I obtained is attached below:
The figure generated consists of patches of rectangular surfaces on it. Is it possible to smoothen out the boundaries or make it indistinguishable and to make a perfe