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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How do I draw a DensityPlot in polar coordinates?
I am trying to plot $J_m(\chi_{mn} r) \cos(m\phi),$ where $J_m(\chi_{mn}) =0,$ as a DensityPlot in polar coordinates (solution to 2D wave equation in polar ...
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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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Using Texture to color countries according to their timezones
So I'm trying to make a world map, where each country is colored according to its timezone. Except, for countries with multiple timezones, the country is filled with vertical stripes of colors ...
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How to reduce the memory necessary for the image? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Exporting graphics to PDF - huge file
I have a figure that is created to use in a paper. Here it is:
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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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Adding a circle to an already existing drawing
With reference to my earlier post:
Adding a point to an already existing graphic
I would like to add an outer circle to the whole drawing. This outer circle is a fixed one of ...
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Morphing Graphics, color and location
I would like to make a small animation :
1-We start with a random distribution of gray points :
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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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Height-dependent filling color in 3D Data Plots
I would like to have the filling of my ListPlot3D display the same color than the one applied to the data. This question makes sense only in the case of conditional coloring of data (according to ...
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Change the color of a Locator in a Manipulate
How can I change the color of a Locator in a Manipulate? As an example, consider the following.
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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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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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Ad hoc graphics primitives-like objects
Sphere is one of the three-dimensional graphics primitives available in Mathematica and can be easily used to created very useful images. For instance, in the ...
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How to draw a gene regulatory state space diagram in Mathematica
Is it possible to draw in Mathematica a state space diagrams like these two?!
I tried a lot but since I am fairly new to Mathematica, I could not reproduce the desired result.
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Extruding along a path
I'm trying to render a 3D image of a path by extruding a circular cross-section along the path, creating a "snake-like" path.
Here is an image I found to illustrate:
I can't seem to figure out if ...
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How can the {x,y,z} points that fall on the outer boundary of a set of values be selected and smoothly surfaced?
For a given set of x,y,z values, that may, or may not form a uniform shape, how can the center of the data cloud be found, and the surface points be located and a solid smooth surface created from ...
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Is there an option to plot the Z axis reversed (as shown in the figure)?
Normally the Z axis is plotted from bottom-to-top as shown below :
I got a plot with the axis (axes to be more precise) reversed as shown below:
Is there a way to force the axes to be plotted ...
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Dealing with numbers too large for machine precision in Graphics
Graphics only supports machine precision numbers (i.e. number that can be converted to machine precision). Take for example
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Graph stories, 3-d volumes
I saw a lesson plan that had students filling different shaped bottles at a constant rate. The idea was to graph height vs. time to show the students how different shapes would produce different ...
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Producing a bar chart with height and color determined by two distinct lists
I am trying to visualize a list of positive integers using a bar chart. In general, integers in that list may appear more than once. For example, I may have
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How to partition a disk into individually spaced bricks?
What I want to do is in any way produce a picture that looks like this
Given a set of words, how can I partition a disk into bricks for these words, such that it looks good?
Here is my sucky ...
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Effects of single-point and multi-point calls of Point on plot range
Several Graphics primitives are listable. For instance, Point accepts lists of coordinates so that multiple calls to Point are ...
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Incorporating an additional graphics element when using Animate and ParametricPlot3D
I'm trying to animate some curves that wrap around a cylinder. OK so far:
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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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ErrorBars with BarChart, PlotLabels are not working?
In the Add Error Bars to Charts and Plots How To in the Mathematica documentation a function ErrorBar is given:
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Labeling a bar chart, changing how rotated labels are centered
I'm trying to label a bar chart with rotated labels
see this simple example:
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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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Labels and tickmarks inside Frame
Is there a way to force Plot and related functions to place the tick labels inside, rather than outside a frame? For example, consider,
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Drawing Rotated views while ignoring the Bounding box
I am trying to make an animation of a rotating cube using the following code:
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Create a “perspective animation”
Inspired by How can this confetti code be improved to include shadows and gravity?
I would like to create my new experiment/stimuli using Mathematica. The idea is to study how people move their eyes ...
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Packed Graph or GraphPlot output with non-square layout?
Graph or GraphPlot produce square layouts for disconnected graphs:
Graph[Table[i -> Mod[i^3, 100], {i, 1, 100}]]
I´d like to get a rectangular layout with ...
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How to hide Box in Graphics3D?
I might be doing something stupid, but I can't see what it is. This simple example shows that I'm trying to hide the Box, but failing. (I tried it just once, in different positions, too.) The code is ...
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Generate a Unit Circle Trigonometry
Struggling often with Trigonometry I would like to have some code to generate this Unit Circle Trigonometry. Would be of great help when I need to transform some data :
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Mathematica Fractals
Could someone explain why I get those ugly graphics ..
..trying to use fractals in mathematica 8 ?
I'd also like to know if it is possible to draw 2D fractals in Mathematica
My configuration ...
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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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Multiple panel figure from combination of plots - bad alignment
I am trying to combine 3 ListContourPlots to obtain a 3 in-row panel figure in Mathematica 7, to export in one single eps file. One of the plots has also its own ...
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Too much vertical space in a CDF file
When I prepare a CDF file to be included into a web page, far too much blank vertical space is left over the pane. Is there a command to reduce that? This is illustrated by the files SimpleDemos.nb ...
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ErrorListPlot marker missaligned with error bar [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Point Renderings Slightly Off in Mathematica
I'm using the ErrorListPlot function in the ...
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Arranging connector lines
Heike gave an absolutely wonderful answer to my question about arranging subplots around a main plot and including connector lines. This is the result:
Starting from Heike's answer, what is the ...
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Plotting a set of trajectories (not a vector field) in 3D
Consider a set of trajectories in 3D space, that possibly converge. By visualizing trajectories as arrows the result will look crowded as each arrowhead will be placed where the attractor is. In 2D, ...
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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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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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Show[] combines my Graphics3D objects in an undesirable way
Thanks to those (Heike, Jens, MrWizard, and R.M.) who helped me yesterday with figuring out how to plot an EM wave. Now I am running into trouble with the Show ...
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Subplots with connector lines
I am looking for advice from people who have more experience in this area on what is the best (simplest, least effort) way to create a graphic like the following:
This is a rough mockup made in a ...
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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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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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Rectangle with rounded edges
Inspired from :
Fit an image within a Rectangle [] in Graphics
I would like now to fit an image within a Rectangle[] with rounded edges as shown in the example below :
Is it possible ?
