Color scale doesn't show up for Lines on Scatter3d plots

The option showscale for plotly.graph_objects.scatter3d.Line doesn't make a color scale appear, or seem to do anything. Here's an example:

import numpy as np
import plotly.graph_objs as go

x, y, z, c = np.random.random_sample((4, 10))

go.FigureWidget(data=[go.Scatter3d(
    x=x,
    y=y,
    z=z,
    mode="lines",
    line=go.scatter3d.Line(
        color=c,
        showscale=True
    )
)])

While, for the equivalent marker plot:

go.FigureWidget(data=[go.Scatter3d(
    x=x,
    y=y,
    z=z,
    mode="markers",
    marker=go.scatter3d.Marker(
        color=c,
        showscale=True
    )
)])

Just in case anyone else comes across this bug, here's the workaround I'm using:

Example workaround

import numpy as np
import plotly.graph_objs as go

def gen_color_bar(line_trace):
    """
    Generates a trace which shows a colorbar based on a line plot.

    Relevant issue: https://github.com/plotly/plotly.py/issues/1085
    """
    return go.Scatter3d(
        x=line_trace.x, y=line_trace.y, z=line_trace.z,
        mode="markers",
        marker=go.scatter3d.Marker(
            color=line_trace.line.color,
            colorscale=line_trace.line.to_plotly_json()["colorscale"], # Waiting on https://github.com/plotly/plotly.py/issues/1087
            showscale=line_trace.line.showscale,
            opacity=0.00000000000001 # Make invisible, visible=False disables color bar
        ),
        hoverinfo="none",
        showlegend=False
    )


# Example usage

x, y, z, c = np.random.random_sample((4, 10))

line_trace = go.Scatter3d(
    x=x,y=y,z=z,
    mode="lines",
    line=go.scatter3d.Line(
        color=c,
        colorscale="Viridis",
        showscale=True
    ),
    showlegend=False
)

colorbar_trace = gen_color_bar(line_trace)

go.FigureWidget(data=[
    line_trace,
    colorbar_trace
])

Tracking plotly/plotly.js#3384

Closed by plotly/plotly.js#3384 and released in plotly.js 1.44.0 and will be released in plotly.py 3.6.0

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Color scale doesn't show up for Lines on Scatter3d plots #1085

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ivirshup commented on Aug 2, 2018

jonmmease commented on Jan 8, 2019

jonmmease commented on Jan 26, 2019

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