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mpl_toolkits.mplot3d.art3d.rotate_axes

mpl_toolkits.mplot3d.art3d.rotate_axes(xs, ys, zs, zdir)

Reorder coordinates so that the axes are rotated with zdir along the original z axis. Prepending the axis with a ‘-‘ does the inverse transform, so zdir can be x, -x, y, -y, z or -z