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How to plot a 3D surface with a simple black and white style?
Mathematica has great plotting capabilities. However, sometimes what is needed is a very basic black and white plot without textures, lighting, glow and other complex features. So, here is my ...
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Plot 2D Vector function in 3D
I want to plot a 2D vector function such as $F(x,y) = (a(x,y),\,b(x,y))$ in a 3D graph so that the vectors are embedded in the xy plane. I tried to do the following:
First I defined a piecewise ...
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How can I fill a curve in ParametricPlot3D?
I'd like to fill a curve in a ParametricPlot3D in the same way as I might with ListPointPlot3D; i.e.,
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Axes Origin & Labels in 3D Plot
I'm looking for a way to have the axes at the origin in a 3D plot and to label the (x,y,z) axes in the usual way---with x near the end of the drawn portion of the x axis, y near the end of the drawn ...
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Dashed mesh behind 3D object
I am trying to create a simple, almost transparent 3D sphere with a mesh that is made of solid lines if they are on the front surface (i.e. if they are directly visible) and of dashed lines if those ...
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How to draw a higher-genus surface
NB: By higher-genus surface, I mean a closed orientable surface of genus at least 2.
This question has come up before on math.SE, and even MathOverflow, but most posters suggested using either ...
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Solving and plotting ODEs while varying one of the initial conditions
How can I vary an initial condition in the numerical solution of a system of ODEs and then make a 3D plot of the solution space with that condition as one of the variables.
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What are the possible ways of visualizing a 4D function in Mathematica?
I have a function $F$ that maps the xyz space to a set of reals, more clearly:
$c = F[x,y,z]$
Where $c$,$x$,$y$ and $z$ are reals.
What are the possible ways of visualizing this 3d function in ...
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3D heatmap density plot
I have a set of data that looks like {{x1, y1, z1}, {x2, y2, z2}, ...} so it describes points in 3D space. I want to make a heatmap out of this data. So that points ...
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Drawing a torus not bounding a solid torus
I am trying to make a "pretty" picture of a torus in $\mathbb{R}^3$ which does not bound a solid torus. The standard way of constructing such a thing is to first take a non-trivial torus knot:
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ListPointPlot3d to visualize points close to a manifold
I have a large set of points that are close to manifold which I want to show in a ListPointPlot3D. Using part of the data set illustrates this
there are fewer ...
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1answer
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How to plot X and Y data to see average data converging?
I initially have ran a large, say 1000 (to be changed later) number of monte carlo simulations (mcRun), and I want to see when the average data result starts to converge to a reasonable value.
So I ...
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Filling between two 3D surfaces
I know it is possible to create a filling in between two curves on a 2D plot, but is it possible to do the same in 3D?
My attempt like this:
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2answers
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Plotting All Possible Points Belonging to a Group Orbit
Given that $$X = \{(x,y,z) \in \mathbb{R}^3 |\, x^2 + y^2 + z^2 - 2(xy + xz + yz) = k\}\,,$$ where $k$ is a constant. Also given that a group $G$ is represented by $$\langle g_1,g_2,g_3|\, g_1^2 = ...
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How to plot a 3D list of points [closed]
I have 3 variables {Eff[i][j], i/15, j/100}. I need to plot them as a 3D figure, the height of the figure is Eff[i][j], which is ...
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Why does mathematica crash when I rotate a 3D graph? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
SIGSEGV error with 3D Plots
I just recently installed mathematica 8 on my linux machine, running ubuntu 11.10
I decided to tun and test mathematica so while the terminal ...
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Problem in RegionPlot3D
I tried to plot the region bounded by the three planes. This is supposed to give me a pyramid type of shape (actually two, but I am just taking one of them). The code is given by
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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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2answers
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How to draw a tangent to a surface in a given direction?
It seems quite embarrassing for me, but somehow I can't draw a tangent line to a surface in a given direction. Assume that I want to visualize directional derivative of the function, say, ...
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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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1answer
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Animate ParametricPlot3D for two different parametric equations
I want to write a computer program to generate 3-D plots (with x-y-t axes) to demonstrate the evolution of the two missiles in the following case:
i. $x = 100t$, $y = 80t-16t^2$ for $0\leq t\leq 5$ ...
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1answer
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Exporting a 3D plot into a 3D viewing format and axis scaling
I've been trying to export a Plot3D into an X3D (JVX, VRML) file using the Mathematica's Export function. The problem is that when the PlotRange is large compared to the other two dimensions the ...
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2answers
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Why is ListDensityPlot unable to plot datasets with extreme ranges
Consider the following dataset:
data = Flatten[
Table[{x 10^-9, y 10^-9, x^2 + y^2},{x, -100, 100, 10}, {y, -100,100, 10}]
, 1];
If I try to ...
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1answer
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Color linear interpolation of ParametricPlot3D
I am looking for any ideas about how to colorize an ellipsoid with a custom gradient style or by a Blend function. I would like to colorize ellipsoid as follows:
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4answers
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Can 2D and 3D plots be combined so that the 2D plot is the bottom surface of the 3D plot boundary?
I have a ListlinePlot function, that I would like to combine with both a Graphics3D plot and a ...
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How to make a 3D globe?
There are many ways to create a 3D Earth that is rotatable (see here, here, related here), but most of them have some drawbacks. These issues mainly stem from either ...
