For questions specific to the Graphics3D command and related 3D graphics functionality.
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Axes Origin & Labels in 3D Plot
I'm looking for a way to have the axes at the origin in a 3D plot and to label the (x,y,z) axes in the usual way---with x near the end of the drawn portion of the x axis, y near the end of the drawn ...
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Radial Random Walk
I'm trying to generate a spherical distribution of radial random walk points in 3D space. The following code works, but the random walk lines aren't radial. Why ? Where is my mistake ?
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combined 3D graphics with no interface
I'd like to combine several 3D graphics, but the interface, indicated by the arrow in the figure attached between them is alway present. How to eliminate it? Thanks in advance.
Here is my example:
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Synchronizing manual rotations for multiple Graphics3D outputs?
Say I make a set of three Graphics3D images, here of three different cones, by evaluating:
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How do I add a color bar to a 3D plot?
I tried
Plot3D[Exp[-x^2 - y^2], {x, -2, 2}, {y, -2, 2},
ColorFunction -> (ColorData["TemperatureMap"][#3] &),
PlotLegends -> Automatic]
in an attempt ...
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Text Annotation Disappears in Wrapped 3D Graphics
In a 3D graphic, if I wrap a figure, for example,
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Dashed mesh behind 3D object
I am trying to create a simple, almost transparent 3D sphere with a mesh that is made of solid lines if they are on the front surface (i.e. if they are directly visible) and of dashed lines if those ...
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Colors not showing in Graphics3D
The following code works, except that the colors aren't showing in the output. Wh? I probably made a trivial mistake, but I'm yet unable to find it.
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Remove the white margins of a Graphics3D figure
If the option Boxed is set to be False in Graphics3D, additional white margins may appear as ...
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Transparent Cylinder with Dashed Edges only
I would like to have that kind of cylinder with Dashed edges (including the bellow inner ring):
I've been trying that:
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OpenSCAD like functionality with Mathematica?
I keep seeing reference to use of Mathematica as a CAD tool (for instance: http://www.makerbot.com/support/guides/design/). I'd like to use it as such if feasible, but I'm having trouble locating ...
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How to draw a higher-genus surface
NB: By higher-genus surface, I mean a closed orientable surface of genus at least 2.
This question has come up before on math.SE, and even MathOverflow, but most posters suggested using either ...
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Manipulating a Graphics3D output with a large number of geometric primitives
I'm attempting to view and rotate a Graphics3D object with a very large set of geometric primitives ($\approx 10^6$ objects such as spheres or lines), and everything is functioning very slowly. Are ...
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Solving and plotting ODEs while varying one of the initial conditions
How can I vary an initial condition in the numerical solution of a system of ODEs and then make a 3D plot of the solution space with that condition as one of the variables.
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Calculating a minimum bounding box for a set of 3-space coordinates / spheres
I have a set of 3-space coordinates for the atoms of a molecule (I could also transform them into spheres with radii corresponding to the atoms they represent). I would like to place this molecule ...
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How can I stop the blinking when rotating a Graphics3D? [closed]
I wrote a function interactiveDesign that returns different Graphics3D items in a list. Then I call the function ...
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How do I draw multiple 3D shapes defined by lists of points?
I'm attempting to draw $N$ cones on a 3D object, where each cone is specified by a pair of 3D coordinates. The first coordinate is for the cone's base, the second one for the cone's apex. Here, I ...
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How do I generate the Mathematica Version 2 Spikey in Mathematica?
As we all know, Mathematica changes its logo design with every new version, while still maintaining the dodecahedral/icosahedral motif.
I have been able, through much digging around, to finally ...
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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 to convert a 2D image into a 3D graphics?
I have an image I would like to make into a .dxf and to do this I need a Graphics3D object. Is there anyway I can do this?
Can ...
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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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Mathematica Minecraft
Some time ago I asked myself: with all these great graphics and interactive capabilities of Mathematica, what kinds of 3D games can be implemented in it? And the answer which came to mind is ...
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What are the possible ways of visualizing a 4D function in Mathematica?
I have a function $F$ that maps the xyz space to a set of reals, more clearly:
$c = F[x,y,z]$
Where $c$,$x$,$y$ and $z$ are reals.
What are the possible ways of visualizing this 3d function in ...
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Forming Cone with Tube fails to work in version 9.0.1
I use two different radii in a Tube expression to draw a cone. I know for a fact that this worked in Mathematica 8, but when I reevaluated my code in versio 9.0.1
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Projecting image or contour plot on xy-plane of Histogram3D? [duplicate]
I've generated a simple 3D histogram, where the x-y coordinates corresponding to the "location" of an event defined on a simple 160x160 grid, and the z-axis height is simply the count of events that ...
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Is there a way to programmatically set global preferences?
Can I set global preferences that are accessible via "Edit"->"Preferences" programmatically from within a notebook?
As learned from this question, turning off anti-aliasing can make a huge difference ...
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axis label and ticks alignment of ListPlot3D and Histogram3D
I have a question on axis label alignment of ListPlot3D and Histogram3D. These labels are not aligned with the axis of the view, but only horizontally. I have tried very hard to align them manually, ...
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Represent Plot Scale with an offset
I want to know how to represent the axis on my 3dplot with a scaled offset. Please see the image below, I just want to show in the plot as {X-Axis*0.1} and {Y-Axis*0.1} ...
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How can I truncate only a single vertex of a polygon?
One can truncate all the vertices of a polygon at once with Truncate. I want to do exactly that -- but only on a single vertex. Is this possible with Mathematica 9? ...
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Import Excel sheet into 3D array?
I have an excel spreadsheet that I would like to plot in a 3D graph using mathematica. The X and Y values are the location of the cell, and the Z value is the number of the scale.
How can I import ...
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How to get the real PlotRange of Graphics with GeometricTransformations in it?
For demonstrating the problem, have a look at the following example, and try adjusting the rotation angle a and/or the Locator ...
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What is PointForm?
I stumbled across a function called PointForm but the only documentation I can find is the pop-up line offered by autocomplete, which contains the same information ...
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Generating stripes on a polygon
I want to create a Graphics3D polygon that has stripes on it. My code is
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Which ray-tracing software is compatible with Graphics3D?
I am interested in working alternative to Mathematica's FrontEnd for rendering Graphics3D produced by Mathematica. The requrements are:
An ability to import ...
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Implementing a first person view of 3D objects in a scene
I've created the following scene with a Chinese-style building surrounded by trees, and a horse and a rabbit grazing on the grass in Mathematica (don't ask me why there's a bust of Beethoven in ...
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How to get shadows in Graphics3D?
It was a shock to me when I found that in Graphics3D a surface is always transparent to the light sources:
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How to improve these WASD + mouse look 3D controls?
Insipred by this question and the corresponding answer I've written a code for full-screen exploration of 3D scenes using standard WASD and mouse look controls. Here it is.
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How can I colorize an imported model?
How can I colorize an imported model from for example 3ds max?
I'm trying to find the way to colorize a 3D plot from an imported model with something like this:
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3D heatmap density plot
I have a set of data that looks like {{x1, y1, z1}, {x2, y2, z2}, ...} so it describes points in 3D space. I want to make a heatmap out of this data. So that points ...
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How to extrude a 3D image from a binary 2D image
I'm trying to extrude a nice 3D form from the 2D binary image below using the code posted, but I haven't had any luck in figuring out the error that's keeping ...
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Simple 3D graphic
How can I make a simple 3D graphic as in the following image?
I know it is simply a sphere and a circle with several joining lines but I dont know how to make such simple one. I can use ...
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Drawing a torus not bounding a solid torus
I am trying to make a "pretty" picture of a torus in $\mathbb{R}^3$ which does not bound a solid torus. The standard way of constructing such a thing is to first take a non-trivial torus knot:
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3D spectrogram plots [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Computing and plotting a spectrogram in Mathematica
I have a notebook that reads in some time-series data and calculates a spectrogram of it using Mathematica 9.0's ...
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RegionPlot3D in cylindrical or spherical coordinates?
RegionPlot3D is awesome. Unfortunately, it appears to work only for Cartesian coordinates. While there are ways to draw surfaces in spherical or cylindrical coordinates, I can't find a way to draw ...
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“Show” with Manipulate runs fine normally, but gives errors as a CDF
I've simplified my code to what can reproduce my error. Basically, I have two lines:
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How do you show a cone inside of a sphere?
I have a sphere of radius 5 and a cone (i.e. z=√(x^2+y^2)) inside of it. I can show them separately, but I'd like to show them together. I've tried a few tricks with opacity, implicit specifications, ...
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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 ...
