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 use Graphics@Rotate@Show@Graphics without “Graphics is not a Graphics primitive or directive.”
If I have the following graphic:
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How to align dynamic graphics and an image within an Overlay?
I have dynamic graphics over an image but they won't line up, what am I doing wrong?
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How to translate interactive graphics from Mathematica to standard HTML+SVG?
I have a simple interactive plot in Mathematica, with controls for various parameters. The point the plot is simply that, by manipulating these controls users can explore how the plot changes as the ...
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how to work with list as function parameter
I want to output an arrow based on input from user and I tried writing this small function to achieve this:
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What options control PairedHistogram axes style?
What options control axes style in PairedHistogram? Here's the online doc. I'm trying to control axes color, thickness, and probably font size on the tick marks. but the options are confusing me:
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How to get the real PlotRange of Graphics with GeometricTransformations in it?
For demonstrating the problem, have a look at the following example, and try adjusting the rotation angle a and/or the Locator ...
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How can I fill-in this Pentagram?
This is my code:
Graphics[{EdgeForm[Yellow], Yellow, Polygon[Table[{Cos[t], Sin[t]}, {t, 0, 4 π, (4 π)/5}]]}]
which gives this:
but I want to get:
How?
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1answer
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Drawing a graph with specified edge lengths
I was wondering if it was possible to ask Mathematica to draw a graph provided some set of vertices: $(v_1, ..., v_N) \in V$ connected by $M$ edges $(e_1, ..., e_M) \in E$, where the length of each ...
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What is PointForm?
I stumbled across a function called PointForm but the only documentation I can find is the pop-up line offered by autocomplete, which contains the same information ...
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Spacer and Text in Graphics going Awry (in Mathematica 7)
Use of a vertical Spacer in justified text inside a graphic isn't working as required. The result in the green box looks right, but when this is placed in a ...
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1answer
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How to make MousePosition more reliable
This takes a little patience to reproduce, but I got a screenshot of it in version 9 on Mac OS X 10.7.5:
With a small Graphics object, it occasionally happens that ...
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In a DynamicModule, is it possible to use multiple EventHandler declarations? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Wrapping EventHandler by Table
I am running Mathematica 7. However, I am new to using Dynamic, ...
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Saving graph as a .ps file without legend
I need to save a graph as an .ps file in Mathematica 9 STUDENT EDITION but at the bottom of the page appears the legend
"Printed by Wolfram Mathematica Student Edition"
This issue was not present in ...
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How can I have an axis label automatically positioned below the X-axis?
I'm attempting to generate some histograms, and I'd like to automatically label the X-axis. However, Histogram[. . ., AxesLabel -> {"X", "Y"}] places the "X" ...
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Image Processing: Finding Orientation and Position of Symmetry Axes
Background
I'm currently toying with Principles of Design by Charlotte Jirousek in order to learn some basics of image processing. As main principals she suggests Balance, Proportion, Rhythm, ...
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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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FunctionTreeForm
I'd like to implement a function FunctionTreeForm which takes an arbitrary complex function and renders all the captionable subfunctions in a TreeForm.
Explanation
If we take e.g. a function:
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How can I draw a picture like this? [closed]
How can I draw a picture like the following using Mathematica's graphics primitives?
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Why are the elements of plots separated in exported PDFs?
When I export a plot to a PDF with something like
Export["test.pdf", Plot[Sin[x], {x, 0, 2 Pi}], "PDF"]
I get a file in which the axes have been separated from ...
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1answer
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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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How to automate generation of image files?
I need to generate a large number of figures as PNG files, and I'm trying to decide whether Mathematica would be the quickest way to do this.
All the figures have the same basic structure, and I'm ...
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Movable text on a curve
Having an arbitrary curve defined as InterpolatingFunction, what is the best way to place a text on this curve? The text generally has two rows, for example: ...
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Fit text to a path [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Movable text on a curve
This is a common feature among vector-based graphics suites (e.g. Illustrator), so I was wondering how it could be done in Mathematica. Here's an ...
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How do I plot a plane EM wave in perspective? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I plot a plane EM wave?
I would like to display an electromagnetic (EM) wave and to display an perspective effect.
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How can I highlight a moving bar in an animation of a bar chart?
I wrote the following code, but I don't know how to highlight the moving bar.
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Is it possible to induce Mathematica to chop off parts of Graphics objects that exist outside of a Frame?
I am running Mathematica 7. In a Graphics environment I am setting Frame -> True (and using ...
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How can I display a multigraph with different colored edges?
I'm new to Mathematica(version 9) and I'm trying to display a multigraph with different colored edges. Here's my code so far:
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Is it possible to render Graphics with more than “Byte” bitdepth?
I wonder is it possible to render Graphics in Mathematica with bitdepth higher than "Byte" which is the maximum bitdepth ...
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Why does DominantColors keep shuffling the order of the results?
This graphic is produced by running DominantColors (new in Mathematica 9) with different values, using the Lena image as the source:
Each row is a list of the ...
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Making a movie with specific frame-rate out of ListPlot outputs? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is it possible to prerender animation in Wolfram Mathematica?
Does Mathematica support variable frame rate for any video format, in analogue of GIF-style “DisplayDurations”? ...
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remove quotes in a combination of a text with graphics in the JournalArticle Style
I have a puzzling and very specific question. It may be of limited interest to community. I apologize in advance in this case. Let us see.
I am making an illustration to a text that I write in the ...
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1answer
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Problem with transparency when I export an eps file
I have the following simple Mathematica code:
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Color ramp banding in PDFKit when exporting Raster image Inset to PDF
Here I produce a Raster image with large uniformly colored rectangles and put it in an Inset:
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Order items by closest to the previous
I have a list of 2D points (a table, imagine the data of a parametric plot shuffled)
I would like to join the points with a line that starts from one of them and always goes to the closest one.
I ...
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Adding a coordinate label to individual squares in ArrayPlot[…]
Can I write text, or add a specific text label to individual squares of an ArrayPlot[...] graphic? Specifically, I would like to assign an two-dimensional integer coordinate label to each square.
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Is there an easy way to specify an arbitrary two-dimensional Polyomino tiling in Mathematica 8.0?
Is there an easy way to generate an arbitrary two-dimensional Polyomino tiling: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyomino?
Specifically, I would like to generate an array of integer coordinates, for ...
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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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How to extrude a 3D image from a binary 2D image
I'm trying to extrude a nice 3D form from the 2D binary image below using the code posted, but I haven't had any luck in figuring out the error that's keeping ...
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Animating a circle to move along an curve
Basically, I want to move a graphic (such as a circle) along a given path (such as sin(x)). I was thinking that the trick might be making the x and y coordinates of the circle vary based on the ...
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How can I view the code implementing a built-in Mathematica function? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What is the most convenient way to read definitions of in-memory symbols when we don’t have the source files?
I would like to look at the code that implements ...
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How can I make a barchart?
I want to mimic the below image type using Mathematica's BarChart3D function. For this purpose I wrote the following code but it isn't working.
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Non-geometric transformation of Graphics3D primitives
I want to apply non-geometric transformations to polygons etc, the goal is to have a Manipulate objects that behaves like that famous möbius transform video.
Since ...
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Mathematica does not export Turkish characters in a Graphics expression
When I export the following Graphics expression as a PDF (or EPS) file, the Turkish characters ü and ç do not appear.
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How to get full-screen graphics canvas?
Is it possible to create a full-screen graphics without any front end elements like cell brackets and scrollbars? The zero approximation can be
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Pasting external PDF vector graphics without losing ability to export them
As in previous versions, Mathematica 9 on Mac OS X (10.7.5 here) still has a problem with pasted PDF graphics that were copied from external applications such as ...
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Rescuing a vertically clipped histogram
I recently ran a rather time intensive calculation and plotted the results in a histogram by simply called Histogram[data]. However, because of a rather serious error on my part, I recently lost my ...
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How can I set the tick marks of the x axis in RectangleChart?
By default, the x-axis in RectangleChart is not labeled. Using Axis -> {True, True} does not help. Can I set the ticks ...
