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Representing a Stencil of a Finite Difference Operator with Mathematica's Graphics3D

I have the following finite difference operator: $$ Lu_{ijk}:= du_{ijk} +c(u_{i-1,j,k} + u_{i+1,j,k} + u_{i,j-1,k} + u_{i,j+1,k} + u_{i,j,k-1} + u_{i,j,k+1})\\ -u_{i-1,j+1,k}-u_{i-1,j-1,k} - ...
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How can I fill an entire Building with transparent points? [duplicate]

I am posting the same code found at an earlier question, although the concept here is totally different. The following code corresponds to a building-shaped structure. ...
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How can I fill a wire-frame structure with gas in a Graphics3D drawing?

I am very poor at visualization. I want to make a transparent "building" filled with gas. I wrote the following code for the building and it's fine. ...
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How can I make a transparent 3D Rectangle?

Sorry, I didn't mentioned clearly in my earlier post. I want to build a transparent Rectangle, within which I want to diffuse a certain color of my choice which is ...
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ListPointPlot3d to visualize points close to a manifold

I have a large set of points that are close to manifold which I want to show in a ListPointPlot3D. Using part of the data set illustrates this there are fewer ...
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3D view of a route shown on a map

You should have already seen such a thing, specially in documentaries about ancient life: the movement of a tribe is shown on an ancient map along a route with a dashed arrow. I want to do the same ...
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How to construct a treemap using non-rectangles?

I've written the standard version of a tree map (a graphic that shows nested data) and I'm looking to improve on this layout by switching to different types of polygons or perhaps circles. Can anyone ...
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How to show solid bodies using volumetric rendering?

Note: This question was asked when Mathematica 8 was latest release. Version 9 has built-in support for volume rendering through Image3D. There's an example on ...