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 to add fill color to a 2D Graphics object?
Problem / background: consider the following code snippet.
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What is the most efficient way to save a big graphic?
I want to generate a graphic using
DiscretePlot[primePercent[x], {x, 10^10},
ImageSize -> Full,
Filling -> None,
Joined -> True]
where
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Dimensions of the results of Text[] within Graphics[]
Is there a way to get the dimensions that the results of a Text[] will occupy within a Graphics[]? Specifically, if I run ...
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Adding a point to an already existing graphic
This is just a follow-up of this post:
Beginner 2D animation with maths equations
Part of the code is:
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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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How can Magnify be forced to ignore the notebook's window width?
In a new notebook, I can illustrate how the action of Magnify is cut off by the window width:
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Mathematica: Label specific vertices in GraphPlot
How can I label particular vertices in GraphPlot? And have the arrows space out accordingly, for the width of the label?
I have Mathematica 7, but I think this question applies to all versions.
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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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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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Export a Row or Column as an image
How could I export the following as a single image and set its dimensions ?
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How to fix the orientation and scaling of Graphics3D?
To visualize an eigenvector and value calculation I tried to display the eigenvectors (scaled by the eigenvalues) as arrows in a Graphics3D plot using Manipulate. The (symmetric) matrix is a function ...
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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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How do you draw the plane on which two vectors lie?
Given two arbitrary vectors $\textbf{v}_1$ and $\textbf{v}_2$, how can I draw the plane which they span?
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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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Removing unwanted appearance of underlying mesh
Let us first define two positive definite matrices:
M1 = {{2, -6}, {4, 8}};
M2 = {{2, 3}, {4, 8}};
then set two points ...
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Background image in a polygon / CountryData
Is it possible to use a background image in a polygon without rasterizing the polygon?
I tried with textures, but they seem to be viable only for simple polygons.
I want to put a flag as the ...
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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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Fit an image within a Rectangle [] in Graphics
Based on the following Code (yet the white text in the image is added with PPT), I would like to have an image fit within one of the rectangle.
For Example the image from there :
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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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Generate Random Text within a Rectangle
I would like to generate images such as the four below.
That is: some text of different length fit within a Rectangle[] using ...
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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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Multiple colors in Graphics[] environment
There are other questions on the site that are similar to this one, but the answers provided didn't help me.
I want to draw disks of different radii. Each radius is the absolute value of a variable, ...
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How to draw multiple coordinates on mathematica?
For example:
How can I draw such kinds of coordinates?
Thank you~
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2D Gaussian distribution of squares coordinates
I would like to imitate the structure of this great painting from Ellsworth Kelly in Mathematica. Yet with all the colored squares in Black and the beige one in white.
Below is what I have wrote to ...
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Is there an equivalent of FullGraphics for Graphics3D?
For 2D graphics, there exists the function FullGraphics to turn the stuff Mathematica generates automatically on Graphics (like ...
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How can I create a ColorFunction using Blend?
As shown below, I am trying to find a cool way to show some variance weighted deviation from the mean. There are 10 attributes that I compute the distance for.
How can I add a color function such ...
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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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How can I specify the arrowhead size in printers points?
Is there any way to specify the size of an arrowhead in printer's points? I'm looking for something that would have similar functionality to AbsolutePointSize, ...
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Tile image on specific location without space between them [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to combine images with the same dimensions in a grid?
I would like to arrange images without any space between their edges as each piece is made to connect with ...
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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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Ideas on how to improve the rendering of the letter B in this 3D region plot?
I have been playing with the RegionPlot3D idea from this question and have been trying
to approximate the Gödel, Escher, Bach logo, but I am a little bit stuck on how to improve the
rendering of the ...
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Using NETLink.MathKernel.Compute() for graphics results fails with GraphPlot[]
I'm using MMA 8.0 to provide backend on a .NET application I'm writing. I am trying to use the high-level Wolfram.NETLink.MathKernel interface to export an image ...
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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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Undocumented syntax of FilledCurve [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Undocumented form for FilledCurve[]
A nice trick to get the outline paths of letters is to use the PDF exporter/importer
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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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How can I share objects with dynamic content with non-Mathematica users?
Often when I construct some cool Manipulate[] function, I would like to share it with others—non-Mathematica users. Some software, notably Cinderella, ...
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Visualizing Rubik's Graph
After the August 2010 discovery that the diameter of the Rubik graph is 20, I wanted to make a way to visualize Rubik's graph. Since there are about $4.3 \times 10^{19}$ vertices in this graph, it is ...
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Inconsistent GraphicsRow behaviour
During the debugging of my previous question (somewhat related), I encountered this strange behaviour: when the global option Antialiasing is set to ...
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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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On coloring the faces of a surface differently with parameter-dependent colors
Old versions of Mathematica ($VersionNumber < 6) supported a particular syntax of ParametricPlot3D[] that allowed for ...
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Drawing graphics part by part
What I want to do is to draw graphics part by part, because I made a function that generates coordinates according to which I will draw graphics. The problem is that MMA does not operate as I ...
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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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How can I extract the maximum value from a Histogram?
In Mathematica 8.04 I've created a histogram of returns on a stock using:
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Why is the Locator snapping back to the original coordinates? How can I prevent this?
Take the following code:
p = {3, 3};
Graphics[Circle[{5, 5}, 5], Epilog -> Dynamic@Locator[Dynamic[p]],
Axes -> True, GridLines -> {{3}, {3}}]
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