How to make a 3D space in Python

Do The Thing
2 min readDec 10, 2022

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To create a 3D space in Python, you can use the pygame module to create a 3D game environment. Here's an example of how you can create a simple 3D space using pygame:

import pygame

# initialize pygame and create a window
pygame.init()
screen = pygame.display.set_mode((800, 600))

# create a 3D projection matrix
projection = pygame.math.Matrix3()

# define the camera position and orientation
position = pygame.math.Vector3(0, 0, -5)
target = pygame.math.Vector3(0, 0, 0)
up = pygame.math.Vector3(0, 1, 0)

# create a 3D camera
camera = pygame.math.Matrix3.look_at(position, target, up)

# create a 3D model
model = pygame.math.Matrix3.from_scale(1, 1, 1)

# create a 3D view matrix
view = camera * model

# main game loop
while True:
# handle events
for event in pygame.event.get():
if event.type == pygame.QUIT:
pygame.quit()
quit()

# clear the screen
screen.fill((0, 0, 0))

# draw the 3D space
draw_3d_space(screen, projection, view)

# update the screen
pygame.display.flip()

This code creates a window with a 3D space that you can draw objects in. You can use the draw_3d_space() function to render 3D objects in the space using the projection and view matrices.

Alternatively, you can use the matplotlib library and specifically the Axes3D class. Here is an example of how you could do this:

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from mpl_toolkits import mplot3d

# Create a figure and a 3D Axes
fig = plt.figure()
ax = plt.axes(projection='3d')

# Plot a line in the 3D space
ax.plot3D([0, 1], [0, 1], [0, 1], 'red')

# Show the figure
plt.show()

This code creates a 3D space and plots a line in it. You can modify the code to add more shapes and objects in the 3D space. For more information and examples, you can check the matplotlib documentation.

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