For questions specific to the Graphics3D command and related 3D graphics functionality.
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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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Noticeable slowdown in graphical performance when using manipulate
I have been making these mathematica 3D objects that involve a molecule with some sort of surface displayed above them. This is done fairly easily by:
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OpenGl Z-Order Equivalent in Mathematica?
I am trying to draw the arrows in this picture on top of the two parallel plates. In OpenGL I would just set the 4th coordinate the z-order to be closer. Any ideas how to draw them on top in ...
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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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Creating a PolyhedronData[] structure for custom polyhedra
The PolyhedronData[] structure is wonderfully rich. I would like to create data for my own polyhedra, not any of the many that Mathematica provides. Is this ...
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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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Plot 2D Vector function in 3D
I want to plot a 2D vector function such as $F(x,y) = (a(x,y),\,b(x,y))$ in a 3D graph so that the vectors are embedded in the xy plane. I tried to do the following:
First I defined a piecewise ...
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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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Problem in RegionPlot3D
I tried to plot the region bounded by the three planes. This is supposed to give me a pyramid type of shape (actually two, but I am just taking one of them). The code is given by
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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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Debugging graphics
All the examples I am seeing on internet are related to normal functions that carry out loops and assignments but I have not seen one example where I can see a graphics based program being debugged. ...
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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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Animating a 3-D arrow given the vector's x, y, and z components as a function of time
I am trying to show how a vector M varies over time. I have the following code:
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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 to draw Graphics3D items with straight border lines?
I want to make a Polygon with straight border lines. For that purpose I wrote the following code, but it doesn't show straight borders.
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How can I overlap image on Graphics3D at a specific position?
I make a Polygon with size of {width=0,length=50,height=30}; I want to overlap Image on ...
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Find points on the surface of a Graphics3D object
If I have a Graphics3D object that was generated from manipulations to PolyhedronData rather than via an explicit equation, for example the Spikey
(for which the entire code can be found here The ...
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Arrow pointing upwards in a Graphics3D
I am trying to write a code for an arrow that points upwards from the center of the circle in a Graphics3D.
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Including two ListLinePlots in a 3D graphic
I have two lists of data which I am plotting on two ListLinePlots. I would like to have these two plots appear perpendicular to each other on a 3D graphic. I have ...
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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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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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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]
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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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Using Chemical Data to make molecule graphics
I would like to take the acetone and chloroform molecules that Mathematica's chemical data provides, and plot them together. I want to show how chloroform can hydrogen bond to acetone. Right now I ...
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How to plot a 3D list of points [closed]
I have 3 variables {Eff[i][j], i/15, j/100}. I need to plot them as a 3D figure, the height of the figure is Eff[i][j], which is ...
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Why doesn't Translate work with PolyhedronData? [closed]
I am trying to view dodecahedrons distributed around a space, but the above code fails. The expression
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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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How to draw a tangent to a surface in a given direction?
It seems quite embarrassing for me, but somehow I can't draw a tangent line to a surface in a given direction. Assume that I want to visualize directional derivative of the function, say, ...
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Code to draw geometry doesn't run
I'm new to Mathematica and have no background whatsoever in programming, although I will teach myself soon. I was wondering if one of you programming pros could help me out. I received a code from ...
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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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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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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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Exporting as .PDB extension
I am working with the 3-D coordinates of proteins. The file format I import and modify coordinates of is in the .PDB format, and the string to import is also in this same format. Currently, when I try ...
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How to plot X and Y data to see average data converging?
I initially have ran a large, say 1000 (to be changed later) number of monte carlo simulations (mcRun), and I want to see when the average data result starts to converge to a reasonable value.
So I ...
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No anti-aliasing on BarChart3D?
If I put AA code in BarChart3D, it won't works. Here is the code.
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Plotting an array of data onto a sphere [duplicate]
See the link to plot at the bottom of this post, it is a function of the spherical coordinates theta and phi. It is generated by MatrixPlot of an Array of data. I would like to plot this onto a sphere ...
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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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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 can I remove orange-box around the Graphics3D?
I don't know whether this is a correct question or not, but I played from two days on this problem and still I didn't find a solution.
The save button is enabled whenever we have to specify ...
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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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Outputting a set of graphics 3D objects with positions defined by one array and colors by another? [duplicate]
I have a set of 2- or 3-space coordinates in an array, $(v_1,...,v_N)$, and an array of RGB color values (outputs from ImageValue[]) for each coordinate, $(c_1,...,c_N)$. How can I output a ...
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How to rotate Graphics3D into CDF? [closed]
I make Graphics3D with Polygons, before deploying then to CDF; In my notebook, it rotates ...
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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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Determining if a point is inside or outside a 3DS (.3ds) or 3DS MAX (.max) object?
Imagine I import some 3DS (i.e. 3D studio) file (http://reference.wolfram.com/mathematica/ref/format/3DS.html) or a 3DS MAX file. How could I place this model (say, the 747.3ds file in the ...
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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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Why does mathematica crash when I rotate a 3D graph? [duplicate]
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SIGSEGV error with 3D Plots
I just recently installed mathematica 8 on my linux machine, running ubuntu 11.10
I decided to tun and test mathematica so while the terminal ...
