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The three text labels in the following figure are all in horizontal direction.

How to put the labels sloped along each axis to which it is attached?

My Code

data = Table[Sin[j^2 + i], {i, 0, Pi, Pi/5}, {j, 0, Pi, Pi/5}];    
testGraph = 
 ListPlot3D[data, Mesh -> None, InterpolationOrder -> 3, 
  ColorFunction -> "SouthwestColors", 
  AxesLabel -> {"Number of Processes", "Number of Operations", 
    "Time (ms)"},
  ImageSize -> 350]

My Figure

listplot3d-label-test

Desired Effect

I want the labels to be sloped along axes, just like in the following figure (made by Python; Please ignore other elements but the labels).

labels

Note: The answer given below by @eldo uses hard-coded angles. Do you have better solutions?

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testGraph =
 ListPlot3D[data,
  Mesh -> None,
  InterpolationOrder -> 3,
  ColorFunction -> "SouthwestColors",
  AxesLabel -> 
   {Rotate["Number of Processes", - 20 Degree], 
    Rotate["Number of Operations", 60 Degree], 
    Rotate["Time (ms)", 95 Degree]},
  ImageSize -> 450]

enter image description here

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  • $\begingroup$ It seems that the angles are hard-coded such that I have to tune them every time I rotate the figure. Anyway, this approach works. Thanks. (I will leave the post "open" for a while before accepting your answer to see whether there are better solutions). $\endgroup$ – hengxin Apr 24 '15 at 3:05
  • $\begingroup$ Yes, they are. Theoretically it should be possible to build a lookup-table to get the "slopes" (degrees) from the most common ViewPoint-settings. But I doubt that anybody here would like to do this. $\endgroup$ – eldo Apr 24 '15 at 17:32

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