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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Varying plot sizes for identical PlotRanges in ListLinePlot, where one has a legend
I am trying to make some figures using ListLinePlot in Mathematica 8. Although the PlotRanges are the same, the resulting frame sizes are different. The only difference (as I see it) between the two ...
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Applying different color to result of a geometric transformation
Background: consider the following two snippets.
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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 can I customize arrowhead shape to match common LaTeX styles?
How do I control the shape of my arrow heads? LaTeX's TikZ package has a wide variety of predefined arrowhead styles, some of which I'd like to try to match for Mathematica figures I'm importing into ...
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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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How do I draw a triangle given the lengths of the sides?
I know, of course, how to draw a triangle in the plane given the vertices:
Graphics[Polygon[{{1, 0}, {0, Sqrt[3]}, {-1, 0}}]]
But I'm not sure how to simply draw ...
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Color based on (discrete) derivative of function
I am making a very basic stock simulation. I want ListLinePlot to color my stock viewer based on whether the price went up or down from the previous price. Here is ...
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How to save plots in grayscale
As sophomoric as this question seems, how should I save plots in grayscale in Mathematica?
I generally like eps images for their scalability and I use ghostscript or other third party perl scripts ...
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How can I pack circles of different sizes into a spiral?
Given a list of circles of different areas, I need to arrange them tangentially in order of increasing area and spiraling outward. An example of the type of packing I'm attempting is shown by the ...
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Formatting Ticks and FrameTicks labels with a function
Is there a convenient way to format tick labels? In this example I would like to use the default Mathematica tick intervals, but simply convert the X axis labels to strings with "s" added.
As you ...
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how to make graphic timelines in mathematica
Hi does anyone know how to make timelines with mathematica?
http://images.nationmaster.com/images/motw/atlas_middle_east/turkey_timeline.jpg
something like that would be great! thanks
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Adapt ticks in plot and font in legend
Some of my 2-dimensional data are displayed with a code similar to this:
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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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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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How to render a 3D tubular graphics from a 2D image path
Question: Is it possible to create a tubular 3D image like Extruding along a path
using "Tube" function in mathematica for following images?
Image (1)
Image (2)
Thanks
I have been ...
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ShearingTransform and Dynamic
Background: I have a geometric transformation composed of a RotationTransform, ScalingTransform and ...
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How can I create a rectangular graphic with curved edges?
I want to make some button shaped graphics that would essentially be a rectangular shape with curved edges. In the example below I have used Polygon rather than ...
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How to draw an ellipse arc in 3D?
There is no Circle or Disk object in 3D. I quickly found a way to use Cylinder (thin lines, no faces, very flat):
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Graphics copy paste
Background. I have a function ( stored in a package ) that creates 2D graphic images, its prototype looks like this:
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Using Inset[..] to overlay a Graphics3D with its raster version
Preamble
First let me explain the why. You can skip this and go directly to the question if want to answer it right away. We had more than one discussion about how to produce nice looking 3d plots ...
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ListPlot3D - How to make the Color depending on a second list
From a simulation (solid state physcis) i obtained a list1={{300,0,0},...} with x values=300,400,...,1500
and y-values=0,0.08,...,20 and z values. I plotted them ...
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How to get rid of Panel margins?
I have a feeling that there is something wrong in general with Mathematica's way of dealing with margins and spaces among/around objects in Graphics, ...
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1answer
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Bring Vertices to the foreground
I'm having some issues with being able to trigger the Tooltip in an AdjacencyGraph, as the edges are "covering" the vertex labels.
In the example provided, there are no issues to display the tooltip ...
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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 to add graphics options to an already produced plot having manipulator?
I am new to Mathematica and stuck with one problem i.e.
How can I add a graphics option to an already made plot which a manipulator to control itself.
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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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Animating a rotating disk
I have a system with 3 degrees of freedom that I want to know if it is possible to visualise with Mathematica in the two-dimensional $X-Y$ plane. I have a plane ...
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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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Computing the bounding boxes for Text objects
Regardless of AspectRatio, the Text boxes overlap.
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LocatorPane and multiple EventHandlers, PassEventsDown option
Consider the following piece of code from Heike as an ( accepted ) answer on LocatorPane, selecting multiple Locators - Basically the code implements dragging polygons on a LocatorPane.
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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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Control which variables get embedded inside Manipulate
While trying to analyse several different datasets I got what I thought was a good idea: define a "function" that returns a Manipulate object. But this has some ...
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1answer
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Speed up DensityHistogram rendering (display)
When I tried to present some pre-calculated density histograms inside Manipulate I noticed that the display of DensityHistogram is extremely slow. Here is a simple ...
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1answer
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On drilling holes with minimal redundancy (and with colors!)
The old Mathematica package Graphics`Shapes` featured the function PerforatePolygons[], which drilled a hole in any ...
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Using ListPointPlot3D to simulate 2D plots moving in time
I wrote a 1D solver for the heat equation $u_t=u_{xx}$, and I can animate the solution using normal ListPlot command, where the x-axis is the rod length, and the ...
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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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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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How to define and work with temporary graphics data?
Background: I am working on a program that produces design patterns ( using wallpaper- and frieze-group theory ). This is for example a 'generating region' for a frieze or a wallpaper.
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What does DisplayFunction->Identity do to graphics functions?
Does DisplayFunction->Identity do anything at all in Mathematica 8?
In the third edition of Programming in Mathematica, Roman Maeder gives the following ...
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How to create a floating image with no window background [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What is the most effective way to setup a Notebook with transparent background but solid contents?
When MMA 8 starts, a floating image of spikey is shown. As you can see ...
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Encoding format used by GraphicsData?
I am trying to extract some graphics stored in PICT format from a Mathematica notebook, using a platform that doesn't support PICT. If I look at the .nb file in a ...
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Frame or EdgeForm disappearing out of PlotRange
I am trying to obtain a thin frame around the bars in this chart but it's proving rather tricky. Can anyone suggest a solution?
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Real Size Image Printing
I am generating a complicated graphics with Mathematica, but with objects of given sizes (e.g. a line of length 1 inch, between two points). I want to make sure that when I export the graphics, e.g. ...
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Is there a way to access the (lexically) current colour inside Graphics?
Note that this is not a duplicate of the question over there. That one asks for a given point, while I'm asking about the lexical structure (which, of course, is not directly related to any point in ...
