from pylab import * from mpl_toolkits.mplot3d import Axes3D ax = Axes3D(figure()) phi = linspace(0, 2 * pi, 100) theta = linspace(0, pi, 100) x = 10 * outer(cos(phi), sin(theta)) y = 10 * outer(sin(phi), sin(theta)) z = 10 * outer(ones(size(phi)), cos(theta)) ax.plot_wireframe(x,y,z, rstride=2, cstride=2) show()