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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Intersecting graphics
Does the Mathematica graphics system have any concept of intersecting graphics? I've not found much in the documents so far. For example, if I want to show the intersection of two shapes:
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Exporting graphics to PDF - huge file
I want to draw some basic surfaces, export them to PDF and include them in a LaTeX file. I create a simple 3D graphics object, for instance with
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Sizing cells in a GraphicsGrid/GraphicsRow
I would like to add a colour bar to a plot. I tried to use GraphicsRow for this. In a GraphicsRow, each item is given the same ...
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Extract values for ViewMatrix from a Graphics3D
Under More Information in the help page of ViewMatrix the following entry can be found
With the setting ...
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Antialiasing in 3D
Is it possible? Is it platform specific? Does it rely on the graphics hardware? Why does the antialiasing slider under Preferences > Appearance > Graphics do nothing? I remember seeing some ...
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Recovering data points from an image
Unfortunately, some data can only be obtained in picture form (Japanese publications anyone?). Since this cannot be worked with, it has to be converted to a dataset that can; I was wondering whether ...
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Filling a polygon with a pattern of insets
I am trying to fill a shape with diagonal lines. I am aware of Texture, but it rasterizes the fill pattern, which is not desirable. Here was my crack at it:
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ListPlot with each point a different color and a legend bar
I would like to generate a ListPlot with the color for each point in the plot corresponding to a particular value (not associated with the position in the plot). I'd then like to add a legend ...
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How to make an inkblot?
How to effectively create a polygon that looks like a realistic inkblot? So far, I could come up with this (borrowing from Ed Pegg Jr.'s Rorschach demonstration):
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How can all those tiny polygons generated by RegionPlot be joined into a single FilledCurve?
RegionPlot will usually generate a large number of tiny polygons for filling the region:
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Create complicated text formulas in graphics
I want to put somewhat complicated, or at least non-standardly formatted, text on some of my graphics. For example, I'd like to be able to use f^[4](x) (where the ...
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Retrieving the ImagePadding in absolute units
Consider the following graphic:
g = Graphics[Circle[], Frame -> True, FrameLabel -> {"one", "two"}]
Retrieving the ...
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$\LaTeX$ and Mathematica
I quite often would like to draw graphics in my $\LaTeX$ documents using Mathematica. I have encountered three problems. I would like to know if there are any workarounds to these problems
I would ...
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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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Computing and plotting a spectrogram in Mathematica
How can I compute and plot the spectrogram of a signal/time series/data in Mathematica? I have a WAV file, sampled at 44100 samples/second and I want to generate a spectrogram of that data. Something ...
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Scale Insetted Characters to Plot
I am trying to place a curly brace within a plot such that the top/bottom of the curly brace line up with two horizontal lines in the plot:
I have not been able to find a way to make the curly ...
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Can 2D and 3D plots be combined so that the 2D plot is the bottom surface of the 3D plot boundary?
I have a ListlinePlot function, that I would like to combine with both a Graphics3D plot and a ...
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How to manipulate 2D plots?
When it comes to visual analysis, large datasets or data with intricate internal details often makes plotting in 2D useless, as the outcome is either just a fraction of the full dataset, or no details ...
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How to create word clouds?
Word clouds are rather useless fancy and visually appealing plots, where words are plotted with different sizes according to their frequency in a corpus. Many applications exist out there (Wordle, ...
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Aligning plot axes in a graphics object
I need to align the y-axes in the plots below. I think I'm going to have to do some rasterizing and searching for vertical lines, then vary x and ...
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Consistent Plot Styles across multiple MMA files and data sets
I am starting to write a thesis for which I want to use MMA for all my plotting needs, mostly because a lot of the basic analysis has been done there. To ensure that I am applying styles consistently ...
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Avoiding white lines inside filled area in RegionPlot exported as PDF or PS
When doing a RegionPlotand then exporting (or saving from the front end) as PDF or EPS, there are small white lines in the filling of the region. Here's an example ...
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How to make a drop-shadow for Graphics3D objects
What's the best way to make a drop shadow for a 3D object?
image = Graphics3D[Sphere[], Boxed -> False]
I can get a blurry black outline of this:
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What is the best way to create a correlation matrix heatmap with values?
This may have been asked somewhere else, but I couldn't find an answer by searching. I'm trying to create a correlation table that colors the background behind the numbers as a heatmap. I've been ...
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Coloring Points in a List Plot [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
ListPlot with each point a different color and a legend bar
I want to color the points in a list plot using a function of the (x,y) values.
I tried this (example with ...
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Transparent textures don't show
EDIT For now, I'm going to accept Brett's answer. It's a way to get transparency back by having 3D calculations done in software
instead of hardware. It addresses the symptoms but not the ...
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Controlling the 2D $x–y$ aspect ratio of a 3D plot
I have some data representing a nested list, each element being composed of 3 real numbers like
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How can I extract data points from a black and white image?
Consider the following graph (source):
Is there any way to extract the data points from this image in a semi-automatic way? I have seen, and tried the methods suggested in this question, but they ...
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How to export large graphics?
I'm using Raster to create large graphics (1000 by 1666), which I want to Export as a JPEG or TIFF in a resolution that can be printed in a large size, 3' by 5'. ...
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An efficient circular arc primitive for Graphics3D
As many people have noted, the 2D graphics primitive Circle doesn't work in a Graphics3D environment. Several solutions to this ...
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Generating graphs interactively (GUI)
I want to create graphs interactively using a GUI. I thought of using a ClickPane[] environment. The code I have (in part borrowed from the Documentation) works ...
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How do I plot a plane EM wave?
I would like to display an electromagnetic (EM) wave. I have written code that works, but it does not "shade" the area between the graph and the axes. Both the ...
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Plotting several functions
I'd like to plot a function of one real and one integer variable, but I don't want them all shown in the same 2-D plot - I'd like to see them as separate curves so I can see both 'axes', more like ...
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How to draw Fractal images of iteration functions on the Riemann sphere?
Prof. McClure, in the work "M. McClure, Newton's method for complex polynomials. A preprint version of a “Mathematical graphics” column from Mathematica in Education and Research, pp. 1–15 (2006)", ...
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Flipping axis on a plot
I want to make a 2D plot where the x-axis is flipped so the higher numbers are on the right and lower numbers are on the left.
I've managed to do it by flipping the data and making new ...
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How can I ensure graphics exported in WMF format don't have text-spacing problems?
A lot of my work involves manipulating data, drawing a pretty plot of it and then inserting that graphic into a report written in Microsoft Word, under Windows.1 The fun comes with the exporting part. ...
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Computing the bounding boxes for Text objects
Regardless of AspectRatio, the Text boxes overlap.
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What is the best way to clip a graphic to a region?
What is the best way to clip a graphic to a certain region?
Here's a very simple implementation to show what I mean:
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Export Graphics[] without white edges
I am trying to generate & Export[] Image with the below code, but as shown in the images I get some white border around my rectangle.
How could I export an images that stopes right at the edge of ...
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Antialiasing option behaves weird (polygon edges visible in ContourPlot)
When I set the Antialiasing option in Style, I get the followings:
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How to insert guide-lines in graphics without specifying range?
Is it possible to insert guide lines in Graphics - for example a horizontal line through y=0 coordinate without specifying the range of the line?
Originally I assumed Infinity might do the trick:
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Creating ghost trail effects
Does anyone know how to create a ghost trail effect? For a simple example look at this screenshot:
You can find the actual animation here. What I would ultimately like to see it happen is to make ...
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Rotating an image along a Möbius strip?
I am trying to make a GIF which will be a rotating Möbius strip, with some text printed along its (one!) side. I am trying to (obviously) do this in Mathematica.
After some diligent searching and a ...
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Custom arrow shaft
Inspired by Sjoerd C. de Vries' nice answer to this question, and the desire to pimp a Graph I did with Mathematica recently I would like to know if there are ways to customize the arrow's shaft ...
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Make a map of squares
I'm trying to use Mathematica to make a map similar to the one here
i.e. a US map where each state is represented by a square of a given size, located as close as possible to its true geographical ...
