Questions on the construction of 2D and 3D graphics through the direct use of primitives, directives, and functions. Include the graphics3d tag for questions specifically on 3D graphics. This tag is not to be used for basic questions on visualizing functions and lists using the various flavors of ...
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How to draw a contour diagram in Mathematica?
This answer at Math.SE contains a neat contour diagram created using Mathematica:
What Mathematica functions I can use to draw diagrams like this?
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Manipulating plot of random iterated function system fractal
I'm generating the Sierpinski Gasket by implementing a chaos game in mathematica. What I'd like to do is create an interactive manipulation with a slider, whereby moving it forward, plots all the ...
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Unexpected error message from GraphPlot evaluation [closed]
(Running MMA 9 on Mac OSX 10.8.3, MacBook Pro, 16GB RAM)
I am trying to display a graph with GraphPlot. I want a few of the edges to be purple, and the rest red. I figured out a way to do this that I ...
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Does it make sense to ask for the color of a Graphics3D “voxel”?
Say I generate some Graphics3D object, e.g.:
Graphics3D[{Red, Sphere[{0, 0, 0}, 1], Blue, Sphere[{1, 0, 0}, 1]}]
Does it make sense to ask for the color of a ...
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How to set image DPI? [duplicate]
For publications usually images in TIFF format are required in high resolutions. Where can I change settings for images that are being saved (using RMB click "Save Graphic As..."), so I don't need to ...
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Anti-aliasing won't work when there is PlotStyle command
I've found that if there is PlotStyle command in the input, anti-aliasing will not work.
However if the Style code is ...
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How to show wireframes on imported Object / Mesh (.obj file)
I've managed to import a Wavefront (.obj) file and store it in a variable like so:
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Graphics3D: the box vertices do not coincide with triangle
I have drawn a triangle using Line graphics primitive and Graphics3D function:
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Preventing cell height adjustment when rotating 3D graphics
I have a large dataset of scattered x,y,z coordinates. I am trying to use ListPointPlot3D to identify outliers in 3D. This involves generating a plot and then ...
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How to crop graphics outside PlotRange with Show? [duplicate]
Is there an option or method to prevent Graphics from being displayed outside the PlotRange region?
The problem is illustrated ...
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TextRecognize with crosses, circles and spaces results into oddities, why?
I am investigating this answer here about detecting crosses and circles with TextRecognize. I tried to solve this problem here by directly using the builtin command TextRecognize but it does not work ...
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How to draw some 2D curves in a 3D plot?
I want to plot several 2D curves (Sin[x] at y=0, Cos[x] at ...
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Convert Graph to Graphics
In Mathematica 9, a graph is returned as an object with head Graph:
In[8]:= CompleteGraph[8] // Head
Out[8]= Graph
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Exporting twice crashes Mathematica on Ubuntu 12.04 with Unity
I'm trying to work out if it's a Mathematica, Ubuntu or setup specific bug. I've asked some colleagues to try it on other Linuxes.
This also crashes on OS X with Mathematica 8.0 and fails with 9.0, ...
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How can I get even steps on x and y axes in a plot?
I'm plotting the shortest distance from a point to a line using the following code
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Comparing data sets with fade transitions (Code speed-up)
I am using the utility below for data comparison. However, with my real (more complex) charts the processing is quite slow, so setting the Pause time under ...
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How can I create a 3D FilledCurve object?
FilledCurve can create a 2D graphics object; for example:
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How do I implement Dynamic Graphics? [closed]
I'm interested in learning to implement graphics like to those shown here
My pendulum c++ code (source & csv's located here) outputs the positions of each mass into separate csv files.
-== My ...
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Why do I get empty graph when adding 'Abs' function?
Can someone be so nice to provide some help for this particular situation? I try to plot a graph of a derivative which contains modulus. Without it the graph is drawn correctly:
But when I wrap the ...
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Drawing Cylindrical Segment with Graphics3D
For a visualization I need a combination of 3 Cylindrical segments to visualize the incident, reflected and refracted beam of light at a surface. I got as far as the following code.
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How can I assign specific colors and sizes to 2D coordinate arrays being plotted with ListLogPlot?
I'd like to plot two sets of coordinates in two different arrays using ListLogPlot, and be able to individually specify the sizes and colors of the datapoints for each array.
Things seem to work ...
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How can I change the size of the plot markers
I use ListPlot in order to plot four sets of data and also insert legends in my plot. Here is the Mathematica code
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rasterListContourPlot With PlotLegends in Mathematica 9
Jens Nöckel has write functions about (List) Contour Plots with rasterized shading in Mathematica:
http://pages.uoregon.edu/noeckel/computernotes/Mathematica/rasterContourPlot.html
It works well. ...
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In what situation is the use of Directive required?
Sometimes I see code samples in the document or in this site using Directive, but I haven't yet find a case that Directive is ...
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How to insert a zoom inside the main plot
As the title indicates, I want to add inside the main plot (preferably at the lower left part) a zoom. Here is the corresponding Mathematica code:
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Exporting PDF file - incorrect graphic
I export graphics to PDF using:
Export["/path/figure.pdf", plotname]
It gives me more than enough quality for PDFLatex. But somehow, some exported plots have ...
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Generating a “flare” effect in Graphics3D?
I'm attempting to indicate that there is a point-source of light at some position in a Graphics3D-generated image. Is there any built-in tool to do this? My patch-work solution thus far has been to ...
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Difference of old Graphics`Graphics3D`ListSurfacePlot3D and the current ListSurfacePlot3D
Consider the following example data which creates the lines of a cylinder
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Finding the common areas of two contourplots
I used ListContourPlot to specify an area for which the function value is less than a number.
For example consider the following areas:
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Statistical analysis of data-list with recurring x-values
I have a list of data as follows with repeated x-values:
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How to compare graphical objects? [closed]
I would like to compare graphical objects composed of basic Euclidean shapes, namely right-triangles. In it's simplest form, I would like all rotations and flips of a single triangle to be considered ...
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Arcs of rotation for angles
How can I draw trigonometric angles of any radian measure associated with the unit circle, complete with the x-axis and y-axis?
How can I draw arcs of rotation inside positive or negative angles?
Is ...
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How can this image (optical illusion) be created with Mathematica?
I came across this image the other day:
and liked the sensation of it pulsing. I was wondering if anyone would know how to create something similar with Mathematica (without the Pink Floyd Dark ...
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Is there a way to prevent audio from becoming out of sync with graphics?
The code below could be used to say help Pre-Kindergarten and Kindergarten children learn about the numerals and numbers from one to 9. The problem is that this age group would be prone to just ...
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how to Export raster data as a tiff unmolested
I feel certain there is a simple answere here.. how do I export image data to a tiff without any scaling?
I want to read back in the exact data.
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Use NotebookWrite with Graphics?
I am trying to use NotebookWrite to paste a plot into another notebook. The code looks something like:
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Hue function for negative arguments
I want to use Hue function for different colours with the argument being a function, i.e.,
Hue[f[i,j]]
Now, ...
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Upon PDF export, edgeless rectangles do not tile perfectly, and corners may be cut. Is this a bug?
Exporting the following as a PDF file
Graphics[{
{Red, Rectangle[{0, 0}, {1, 1}]},
{Green, Rectangle[{1, 0}, {2, 1}]}
}]
does not produce perfectly tiled ...
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distance between two curves
I try to compute the distance between two curves. I use the EuclideanDistance to do that.
Here my code:
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Coloring with Hue for a function on a lattice grid
I wish to color a 2-dimensional lattice grid according to the value of a function at each lattice-node.
More specifically, if I have 9 angles in a 3x3 array,
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Issue with ListDensityPlot when using logarithmic scale
I have got some frequency response data from a speaker measured with different incident angles between speaker and microphone taken in an anechoic chamber. The data can be found here.
The whole ...
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Draw network graph and get the coordinates of each node
I would like to draw an undirected graph by specifying the nodes and the edges among them. This is currently done by, for example:
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Diagonal Tick Marks
I would like to draw diagonal tick marks around a plot, and simultaneously rotate the tick labels as well. I've mocked up what this would look like:
Is there an easy way to do this in Mathematica? ...
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data visualization on a lattice grid
Is it possible to visualize an array whose elements are angles as actual angles on a lattice grid? E.g., say, if the input is:
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Caching of Graph Graphics
In this answer, Simon Woods concludes that when you display an expression with head graph more than once, something is getting stored somewhere. I looked into it too and found out this only happens if ...
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Customize your FrameTicks in a MATLAB way
The figure below is made by MATLAB. However, the scientific form of numbers in FrameTicks that how MATLAB deals with is quite different from that of Mathematica.
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Why do vertex labels disappear when I edit with drawing tools?
I'm trying to change the text and arrow style in GraphPlot using the drawing tool, but the the vertex labels disappear when I do that:
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double arrow in GraphPlot
Is it possible to combine two edges into one with a double arrow?
For example:
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How can I extract the points from a ListSurfacePlot3D?
How can I get numerical output of ListSurfacePlot3D, i.e., a list of all the points, $(x,y,z)$ , used to construct the plot?
Thanks to your help I now have a list of (x,y,z). But the new mesh is ...
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Obtaining a conic sections by slicing a cone
I have a cone and an intersecting plane, but the cone is defined with Graphics3D. I want to draw conic sections (primarily, the ellipse, parabola and hyperbola), ...
