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 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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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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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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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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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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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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Creating an animation illustrating the time-evolution of a pre-computed orbit
As the title says, I would like to use Mathematica in order to create an animation depicting the time-evolution of a three-dimensional (3D) orbit. To begin with, I have an ASCII file which contains ...
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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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Graphic Layers, Splitting Regions, Symmetry Operations to Font Characters
As Stephen Wolfram wrote in his lates blog post:
A basic interactive system for generating logos is a tiny amount of Mathematica code. But getting everything exactly right turns out to be quite ...
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Obtaining Size Of Graphical Objects
I have created a panel, say Panel[""]. I want to know its size/dimensions. Is there any built-in function for doing that?
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Mathematica 9 fails to export graphics by right-click when notebook magnification is changed [closed]
When I try to export graphics as PNG, JPG and other rasterized formats using the right-click and choosing Save Graphic As..., if the notebook magnification is ...
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Deformed style when exporting eps files
I want to export a plot into an eps file. Below I present a sample plot code in order to demonstrate the two issues that appear.
(1). LabelStyle: When I use ...
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Edges and crossing
I want to make a program where I have a collection of labeled vertices and edges between the vertices such that they join up with edges $a_{1} a_{2}, \; a_{2} a_{3}, \ldots ,\; a_{n} a_{1}$, so the ...
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PDF exportation fails to print depending on method: possible bug in v9?
Admittedly inelegant code (that wasn't intended for public consumption):
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Combining 3 graphics of different coordinate systems
I have 3 graphics in different coordinate systems and I want to join them in as in the following figure.
This is just a sample figure, not the real one.
My functions are as follows.
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How to draw a great circle on a sphere?
I apologize for the text description, but new users are not allowed to post images.
I want to draw a circle that cuts through the center of a sphere and has an inclination of 15 degrees with the ...
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Extracting box coordinates [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Dimensions of the results of Text[] within Graphics[]
In writing the following code, I had to figure out what values to give d by trial and error. Is there a way to ...
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Use different ColorFunction for each function plotted
When plotting two curves on one plot, you can specify different colors for each function:
Plot[{Sin@x, Cos@x}, {x, 0, 4π},
PlotStyle -> {Red, Blue}]
To ...
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some Graphics output do not fully render on the screen until an extra click is made into the notebook
Sometimes when using a command such as Grid and looking at the output, some of the actual lines (frame, gridlines) that make up the display will be missing on the ...
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Plotting Chebyshev's theta function $\vartheta(x)$
The function I would like to plot is defined as $\sum\limits_{p\leq x}\log p.$ The following gives me I think a plot of the points of interest, but the function is defined for all $x > 0$ and so ...
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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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How to show legend in a combined plot of many lists,
I am having trouble with adding a legend to a plot. The example I discuss here is simpler than my real problem, but describes it well.
I have a vector, called X with dimensions (100 x 6). I use the ...
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Quirk in VertexColors interpolation when displaying Polygon
When using VertexColors the docs state:
The interior of the polygon is colored by interpolating between the colors specified by VertexColors.
It however ...
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Why am I getting so many error messages from my pendulum simulation?
I'm doing my end of semester project for a physics class. We were supposed to graphically model a physical occurrence; I chose doing a Pendulum Wave.
I have my code written, however Mathematica keeps ...
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How do I prevent fonts sizes and line weights from scaling in exported graphics?
It's common to export graphics from Mathematica that are subsequently scaled to various sizes that cannot (at least not conveniently) be anticipated. This is problematic in cases where (as is common) ...
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Mark an 2d-area on a 3dPlot (ListPlot3d)
I have a list {(IC,s,FK)}, which I use to generate a 3d-plot with the help of the command ListPlot3D. ...
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TreePlot with centered vertexes
I want to draw a tree plot for Euler totient function for this question like the following:
I generate the EulerPhi for first 20 numbers into a list:
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TextCell going awry due to ImageResolution (in Mathematica 7)
Can anyone see how to fix this text display? The example is from a larger project. I need to export the graphic at high resolution, but the text is going wrong.
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Adding Math to Plots
I have several formulas I would like to place at specific coordinates in a Graphics object I have already created. I need to be able to choose bold or not as well ...
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Circular AngularGauge does not roll over boundaries
I am using the Mma9 AngularGauge function to develop a controll for a rotating stage. I am experiencing several problems:
I am unable to get the values {0°, 90°, ...
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Cannot adjust inset to show at the top of the base graph
I'm trying to put an inset on top of a graph, the inset is also a graph.
I'm using Inset within Epilog and the following command ...
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How can I set an image as the background of a panel?
Is it possible to set an Image as the Background of a Panel? I've studied all the options in ...
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Changing default ImageSize in the frontend?
I would like graphs to appear somewhat larger in my notebooks (running v8.0.4 on OSX 10.8.2).
Naturally I can specify ImageSize in each individual plot, or drag ...
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Automatically wrap abritrary-length text in graphics
Question: How to insert Styled text of unknown style and length into a graphics and have it wrap at a Scaled width?
Attempt: I ...
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How can I set the background color to the Popupmenu?
I want to set the Background color of a PopupMenu to blue. I already searched in the documentation center, but I didn't find any ...
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Op-art Graphic Images
This image comes from Michael Trott's Mathematica Guidebook for Programming. It's just a chapter image though, and he doesn't show the code. I was wondering what would be the best approach to ...
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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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Automatizing PSfrag export
I'm in the early phase of creating a Mathematica function (or package) that exports graphics such that they can be used with $\LaTeX$'s PSfrag.
The goal
Ideally, the function should take a graphic ...
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Graphic is red when copied from Mathematica and pasted into Word [closed]
I'm having a hard time copying my graphic (a plot) from Mathematica into a Word document. Every time I copy and paste a graphic, it appears all red. And when I save it as a JPG, it still makes it all ...
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Exported graphics texture to eps is too dark
Why is the exported graphics eps file so dark? It looks much lighter (and better) as the Mathematica output appearing the notebook.
After running
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Placing a contourPlot under and Plot3D [duplicate]
I would like to combine a 3-dimensional graph of a function with its 2-dimensional contour-plot underneath it in a professional way. But I have no idea how to start.
I have a three of these I would ...
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How to obtain xyz-axes of same length? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Controlling the 2D $x–y$ aspect ratio of a 3D plot
I am plotting 1000 points in a 3-dimensional cartesian coordinate system, the plotting range for the x, y, z axes is ...
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Color mixing or blend
Color mixing seems not only one type.
Here is RGB_color_model
I wrote this one:
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Intersection of graphics [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Intersecting graphics
I want to display the intersection of two rectangle:
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Use output from Plot3D as an object in Graphics3D that I can transform
I'm trying to draw up an optical system where I can show an example of wavefront error on an exit pupil. It would be great if I could take the results of a 3D function from Plot3D and use it as a ...
