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uirevision property doesn't keep the viewpoint consistent

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Description

The following is the copy-paste of a question I opened on stackoverflow, it looks like to be a bug, so here i go:

I'm trying to keep the viewpoint consistent in my plotly-dash web app after every callback. This should be straightforward according to many already answered questions. The following line of code should do the magic:

fig.update_layout(uirevision='constant')

Unfortunately for me, it looks like that this is not the case for 3D scatter plots, here is a very brief piece of code that should allow to reproduce my problem:

import plotly.express as px
df = px.data.iris()

import dash
from dash import dcc
from dash import html
from dash import Input, Output

app = dash.Dash()
app.layout = html.Div([
    dcc.Dropdown(['option1', 'option2', 'option3'], 'axis', id='x-dropdown', clearable=False),
    dcc.Graph(id='main-plot')
])
@app.callback(
    Output('main-plot', 'figure'),
    Input('x-dropdown', 'value'))
def update_figure(x_selector):
    fig = px.scatter_3d(df, x='sepal_length', y='sepal_width', z='petal_width',  color='species')
    fig.update_layout(uirevision='constant')
    return fig
    
app.run_server(debug=True, use_reloader=False)

This is what i'm observing:
unexpected behavior

I can tell that the uirevision is doing something since the viewpoint is not completely reset after the callback, but it is still very imprecise. Is there something I'm missing or is this the expected behavior?

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Research direction

Start by running the minimal Python Dash reproduction in the issue and observe the 3D scatter plot after changing the dropdown. Investigate how the uirevision layout setting affects the 3D viewpoint across callbacks; done means the viewpoint remains consistent after the callback without breaking the demonstrated plot behavior.

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Assessment

Tech stack
python
Domain
data-visualization, web-dev
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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