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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Combine absolute and relative (scaled) coordinates
I am using Inset to add an Epilog to a plot. The position of the images (in my case: framed numbers) can be specified as an ...
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Exporting PDF file - incorrect graphic
I export graphics to PDF using:
Export["/path/figure.pdf", plotname]
It gives me more than enough quality for PDFLatex. But somehow, some exported plots have ...
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How to construct a treemap using non-rectangles?
I've written the standard version of a tree map (a graphic that shows nested data) and I'm looking to improve on this layout by switching to different types of polygons or perhaps circles. Can anyone ...
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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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PlotMarkers doesn't inherit PlotStyle when Graphics[a] isn't a List[]
Could somebody explain, why Circle does not inherit the PlotStyle of the plot when used as ...
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Dual complex integral over implicit path using contour plot
Context
I am interested in doing double contour integral over paths which are defined implicitely.
For the sake of debugging, let's assume its
$$\oint_{\cal C}\oint_{\cal C} \frac{1}{u\, x} d u d x$$ ...
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How to style and position VerticalCallouts and RadialCallouts
Here is a pie chart with a labels placed with a "VerticalCallout"
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Limiting the use of discrete graphics card on Mac
Apple's laptop running Mac OS have a pretty nice feature to make the battery last longer: the dynamically switch between the low-power integrated graphics card and the higher-performance dedicated ...
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How to map rotate, pan, zoom to manipulate controls
I am wondering if there is a way to restrict the motion of the rotate mouse cursor in when moving around a 3d plot.
For example, I want the y direction of the cursor to correspond to pulling the z ...
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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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Getting EPS imports to respect the original fill rule
One major problem in my attempt to answer to the CountryData flags question is that the way Mathematica handles filled curves differs from the way SVG and EPS style editors do. The latter two have the ...
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Caching of Graph Graphics
In this answer, Simon Woods concludes that when you display an expression with head graph more than once, something is getting stored somewhere. I looked into it too and found out this only happens if ...
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Why do vertex labels disappear when I edit with drawing tools?
I'm trying to change the text and arrow style in GraphPlot using the drawing tool, but the the vertex labels disappear when I do that:
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Finding minimal region with padding and linear map to circle
Suppose I have n ordered points. I would like to find a simple region that contains all the points and is close to the smallest region that contains the points except it is smooth and has some ...
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Anti-aliasing won't work when there is PlotStyle command
I've found that if there is PlotStyle command in the input, anti-aliasing will not work.
However if the Style code is ...
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Comparing data sets with fade transitions (Code speed-up)
I am using the utility below for data comparison. However, with my real (more complex) charts the processing is quite slow, so setting the Pause time under ...
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Is it possible to mask a vector image?
I am trying to plot a contour plot within a non-rectangular region. I have seen in other posts techniques that involve calculating an interpolation function and using the RegionFunction command within ...
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Tooltip not working in web deployed cdf
I deployed a CDF file in a web page. I used both Mouseover and Tooltip functions. They both work in the raw CDF file. The ...
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Why does animating images overlayed with graphics primitives take much longer than animating either individually?
So I start by making a list of images with
images = Image[ArrayPlot[Import[ (* filenames *) ]]]
Then I run some complicated code that extracts the coordinates ...
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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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Hue function for negative arguments
I want to use Hue function for different colours with the argument being a function, i.e.,
Hue[f[i,j]]
Now, ...
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Copy and pasted graphics are fuzzy
I have a function that creates a 2D line with filling to the axis. When I copy this graphic into word it is very fuzzy, so much so that the numbers and text are almost unreadable, not to mention the ...
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ListPlot and Union related question
This is the question that I got for my assignment:
In a square room with 7 m-long sides, five people (black circles) have
shot at random people. They all had two bullets and killed two people
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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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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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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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Making a screen icon by Mathematica
Is it possible to make within Mathematica an image file to be used as a screen icon? Could you kindly give an example?
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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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Obtaining a conic sections by slicing a cone
I have a cone and an intersecting plane, but the cone is defined with Graphics3D. I want to draw conic sections (primarily, the ellipse, parabola and hyperbola), ...
