According to this thread, displaying images on point hover isn't possible in plotly-python but might be built out in the future.
However, you can accomplish this in plotly-dash because this library allows you to modify the html using callbacks.
Following the example here, I created some sample data and a go.Scatter3d figure that matches your use case a bit more:
from dash import Dash, dcc, html, Input, Output, no_update
import plotly.graph_objects as go
import pandas as pd
## create sample random data
df = pd.DataFrame({
'x': [1,2,3],
'y': [2,3,4],
'z': [3,4,5],
'color': ['red','green','blue'],
'img_url': [
"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Stack_Overflow_logo.svg/2880px-Stack_Overflow_logo.svg.png",
"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/37/Plotly-logo-01-square.png",
"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Pandas_logo.svg/2880px-Pandas_logo.svg.png"
]
})
fig = go.Figure(data=[
go.Scatter3d(
x=df['x'],
y=df['y'],
z=df['z'],
mode='markers',
marker=dict(color=df['color'])
)
])
# turn off native plotly.js hover effects - make sure to use
# hoverinfo="none" rather than "skip" which also halts events.
fig.update_traces(hoverinfo="none", hovertemplate=None)
fig.update_layout(
scene = dict(
xaxis = dict(range=[-1,8],),
yaxis = dict(range=[-1,8],),
zaxis = dict(range=[-1,8],),
),
)
app = Dash(__name__)
app.layout = html.Div([
dcc.Graph(id="graph-basic-2", figure=fig, clear_on_unhover=True),
dcc.Tooltip(id="graph-tooltip"),
])
@app.callback(
Output("graph-tooltip", "show"),
Output("graph-tooltip", "bbox"),
Output("graph-tooltip", "children"),
Input("graph-basic-2", "hoverData"),
)
def display_hover(hoverData):
if hoverData is None:
return False, no_update, no_update
# demo only shows the first point, but other points may also be available
pt = hoverData["points"][0]
bbox = pt["bbox"]
num = pt["pointNumber"]
df_row = df.iloc[num]
img_src = df_row['img_url']
children = [
html.Div([
html.Img(src=img_src, style={"width": "100%"}),
], style={'width': '100px', 'white-space': 'normal'})
]
return True, bbox, children
if __name__ == "__main__":
app.run_server(debug=True)
EDIT: I am also including an answer that allows you to run a dash app from a jupyter notebook based on this sample notebook:
from jupyter_dash import JupyterDash
from dash import Dash, dcc, html, Input, Output, no_update
import plotly.graph_objects as go
import pandas as pd
## create sample random data
df = pd.DataFrame({
'x': [1,2,3],
'y': [2,3,4],
'z': [3,4,5],
'color': ['red','green','blue'],
'img_url': [
"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Stack_Overflow_logo.svg/2880px-Stack_Overflow_logo.svg.png",
"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/37/Plotly-logo-01-square.png",
"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Pandas_logo.svg/2880px-Pandas_logo.svg.png"
]
})
fig = go.Figure(data=[
go.Scatter3d(
x=df['x'],
y=df['y'],
z=df['z'],
mode='markers',
marker=dict(color=df['color'])
)
])
# turn off native plotly.js hover effects - make sure to use
# hoverinfo="none" rather than "skip" which also halts events.
fig.update_traces(hoverinfo="none", hovertemplate=None)
fig.update_layout(
scene = dict(
xaxis = dict(range=[-1,8],),
yaxis = dict(range=[-1,8],),
zaxis = dict(range=[-1,8],),
),
)
app = JupyterDash(__name__)
server = app.server
app.layout = html.Div([
dcc.Graph(id="graph-basic-2", figure=fig, clear_on_unhover=True),
dcc.Tooltip(id="graph-tooltip"),
])
@app.callback(
Output("graph-tooltip", "show"),
Output("graph-tooltip", "bbox"),
Output("graph-tooltip", "children"),
Input("graph-basic-2", "hoverData"),
)
def display_hover(hoverData):
if hoverData is None:
return False, no_update, no_update
# demo only shows the first point, but other points may also be available
pt = hoverData["points"][0]
bbox = pt["bbox"]
num = pt["pointNumber"]
df_row = df.iloc[num]
img_src = df_row['img_url']
children = [
html.Div([
html.Img(src=img_src, style={"width": "100%"}),
], style={'width': '100px', 'white-space': 'normal'})
]
return True, bbox, children
app.run_server(mode="inline")
