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 create this four-dimensional cube animation?
This is a tesseract, a four-dimensional cube, which contains two cubes. Here, each side length of the smaller one is 1, while the side length of the bigger one is 2. How do make I it?
I am still ...
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1answer
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ESRI shape files
ESRI shape files (shp): importing the polygon data can yield a very large list.
It is computationally intensive rendering the polygon. I have been trying to convert to ...
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How to express ticks in scientific form?
I want to express the ticks in scientific form. I tried two ways as following
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1answer
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How to align rotated tick labels?
How can I align tick labels so the tick label text ends centered under the data point? Of Course it works fine with a rotation of 90 Degrees, but not with 45 or similar angles.
I see an example of ...
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1answer
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Preventing ColorFunction bleed in ListLinePlot
Given this dataset (~2100 year precipitation estimates in New Mexico, based on tree-ring data, courtesy of NOAA and Henri Grissino-Mayer)
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Is there possibility of exporting mathematica code directly into Latex?
I'm novice very user of Mathematica - is there possibility of exporting mathematica code directly into Latex - I'm interested only in exporting mathematical formulas ? And from which version of ...
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ColorFunction in ListPlot problem? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
ListPlot with each point a different color and a legend bar
ColorFunction doesn't seem to work in ListPlot (MMA8)?
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1answer
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Speed Up SphericalPlot3D
I was wondering if I could speed up SphericalPlot3D? I tried editing PlotPoints, and ...
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1answer
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How to highlight various parts of a plot
I'd like to show students a graph of a function, say $(x,y)\mapsto\sqrt[3]{x^3+y^3}$, and then highlight its various properties connected with (non)differentiability at certain points etc. Having ...
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1answer
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Convert Graphics3D containing BSpline to polygon primitives for export to 3DS?
Graphics3D[] objects created with BSpline functions will not export to 3DS format, which only supports the more basic primitives. Is there any straightforward way ...
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Controlling the 2D $x–y$ aspect ratio of a 3D plot
I have some data representing a nested list, each element being composed of 3 real numbers like
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2answers
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Animation of Differential Equations from NDSolve with ParametricPlot3D and Evaluate
I have a system of differential equations (referred to as "s") and use NDSolve to obtain the solution. I substitute the interpolated functions for the original ...
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2answers
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How do I transform a rasterized graphic's coordinates back to its original ListPlot data coordinates?
From this question I successfully made an elliptical fit for my data.
However, when I try and collect the datapoints within the ellipse via this question the coordinates of my ellipse correspond to an ...
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Preventing label crowding in PieChart RadialCallout and RadialCenter
Is it possible to avoid this unreadable situation with label crowding when using PieChart's RadialCallout and ...
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2answers
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Plotting best-response functions
I'm a newbie in Mathematica. I'm trying to solve for two functions (best-response functions in a simple game), and then to plot the functions on the same graph. One function is p1 = resp1(p2) and the ...
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How can I draw the Olympic rings with Mathematica?
How can I draw the 5 interlocking Olympic rings with Mathematica?
(SVG version)
Edit
Hard choice, but some pretty cool answers here. I didn't have 3D answers in mind when I posted the question ...
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Finding concave hull for separated small clusters
Data :
data3D = Import[file, "VertexData"];
Graphics3D[Point[data3D]]
How to find concave polygon for separated small clusters.
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Finding a Concave Hull
I have a 3d clustered data:
Is there any other way to get concavehull of 3D data points?
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Exporting a rasterized Row of Graphics
I'm running some code based on @R.M.'s answer to this question to create a couple plots side by side.
I want to export the plots rasterized to a png. However, when I ...
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1answer
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Tool to locate bloat in a notebook?
In developing a notebook, I often find I have created a very boated file that takes a long time to save. I would like to slim it down. It is usually the result of graphics and images, but they may be ...
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Create magnified call-out loupe effect on image
I'm trying to create a Mathematica Manipulate that generates a graphical call-out using a 'loupe'-style or magnifying glass enlarger - a possible solution is shown ...
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Creating diagrams for category theory
Lately I've been doing algebra and I have found myself drawing a bunch of diagrams when I attempt to solve a problem. Most of the diagrams are very simple so I thought, I bet I can do this in ...
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How to insert guide-lines in graphics without specifying range?
Is it possible to insert guide lines in Graphics - for example a horizontal line through y=0 coordinate without specifying the range of the line?
Originally I assumed Infinity might do the trick:
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1answer
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Removing clipping masks from exported PDFs
I usually export graphics from Mathematica as PDFs which I tweak with Adobe Illustrator. When most plots are exported from Mathematica as PDFs they contain a large number of mostly useless clipping ...
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1answer
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Hakim's Sphere in Mathematica?
Hakim El Hattab's Sphere, consists of only a handful of lines of Javascript, and would probably be even terser if written in Mathematica.
How difficult would it be to "transcode" Mathematica to JS?
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How to pad Background size in Style calls
When highlighting text using Style and Background, as in ...
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1answer
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Rough edges plotting a surface
I'm trying to use SphericalPlot3D to create some images of a surface but I get some rough edges on the surface around the boundary. However, after rotating the ...
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How to rotate TickMarks in DateListPlot?
Is there a way to rotate TickMarks in DateListPlot to avoid overlap, eg:
Part of the code used to generate this is:
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Working around behaviour of EdgeRenderingFunction
One can make graphs
GraphPlot[{1 -> 2, 2 -> 3, 3 -> 4, 4 -> 5, 5 -> 1, 1 -> 1, 5 -> 5}]
and one can generalize the input such that one ...
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1answer
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DynamicModule with constant image size
I am new to this forum - I wonder if someone can help me improve this code.
I would like the angle $\theta$ to start in the middle of the slider i.e. $\theta = 0$ instead of starting at $\theta = ...
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ListPlot Inset coordinates problem
Inset seem better suited for ad-hoc labels and legends than for precision, programmatic placement of annotation.
Given the following 'bottom-up' graphic expression:
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Is there a way to outline text?
If I have:
Graphics[
{Red, EdgeForm[Directive[White, Thick]],
Inset[Style[Text@"Hi!", 44], {0, 0}]}, Background -> Black
]
I unfortunately get:
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Alignment and Plot size problem in PopupMenu
I have three plots in an OpenerView named "PopupWindow", "MouseOver" .
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1answer
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Using Dynamic with UpdateInterval and EventHandler Together
I've been having some difficulty with the aforementioned use of these three functions/options and would greatly appreciate some help.
I know that they're is probably an easy way of making a disk move ...
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Manipulating spacing in a text object
I want to visually illustrate substitution in a mathematical expression. This is an example:
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1answer
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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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Two-sided slider getting stuck
I'm implementing a two-sided slider to be able to set upper and lower bound in just one slider:
The problem is that it can get stuck when both locators are at the far left:
And I'm unable to ...
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Epilog->Inset crops text with large font sizes
Why does Epilog->Inset crop the first and last letters here ("a" and "g") when FontSize is set to large values (which varies ...
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Inserting a jpeg image at a specified point in the XY-plane
I know how to import an image into Mathematica using the Import command. The original image can come from anywhere, but call this image "myimage" after importing ...
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How to texturize a Disk/Circle/Rectangle?
The documentation for Texture states that "other filled objects" can be texturized:
Texture[obj] is a graphics directive ...
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Camera Troubles in Mathematica
I'm trying to animate a torus being cut by a plane, so that as the plane enters the torus the part in front of the plane disappears (the idea is to show the cross section). That much I can do, but I ...
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Dates as FrameTicks on a ListLinePlot
For reasons too lengthy to explain, I would like to display a list of dates or years (as numbers or strings) as FrameTicks on a ...
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How to position legends exactly where I want them?
I just noticed another plot legend question today and while user solutions to this, in particular code by @Jens, are IMO better than the built in solutions, exact positioning often still requires some ...
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Cutting bagels into linked halves
I recently came across this video: Mathematically correct breakfast, which shows how a bagel can be neatly sliced into two identical linked halves.
I'd like to try this with Mathematica. Here's a ...
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Problem with Volume Rendering Using 3D Texture [closed]
I have been trying Yu-Sung Chang's Mathematica.SE answer on volumetric rendering.
This is what the result should look like.
However, I got a different result.
Could anyone help me find what the ...
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How to calculate mix of 4 colors defined in CIELAB L*a*b* model?
I have 4 colors that I converted from RGB to CIELAB L*a*b* model.
How can I calculate mix of these 4 colors when I have (L,a,b) for each such color?
How can I ...
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X label in GraphicsColumn is cut off
I'm trying to use GraphicsColumn to plot two curves with very different ranges. for example,
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DateListPlot FillingStyle problem
In the following query, If the option PlotStyle->{Red,Blue} is inserted it works but FillingStyle->{Red,Blue} does not: ...
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Finding the centroid of a disk in an image
I got about 100 images of the sun and have to find the centre of the star in the images. I have binarized the images and used ComponentMeasurementsto find the ...
