For questions about texture mapping, particularly using the Texture function.
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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 ...
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Transparent textures don't show
EDIT For now, I'm going to accept Brett's answer. It's a way to get transparency back by having 3D calculations done in software
instead of hardware. It addresses the symptoms but not the ...
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Texture mapping and resizing a sphere primitive in Mathematica
Background Info
In Mathematica, it's only possible to texture map a sphere through the use of SphericalPlot3D or ...
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Using Texture to color countries according to their timezones
So I'm trying to make a world map, where each country is colored according to its timezone. Except, for countries with multiple timezones, the country is filled with vertical stripes of colors ...
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Sharp background image in plot
How do I get rid of blurry transitions between pixels of the background image below. It's the fault of Texture[], previously discussed in this answer.
I haven't ...
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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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Background image in a polygon / CountryData
Is it possible to use a background image in a polygon without rasterizing the polygon?
I tried with textures, but they seem to be viable only for simple polygons.
I want to put a flag as the ...
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Showing a rectangular plot on an almost-closed sphere
I am currently teaching some students about the "point at infinity", and how it allows us to treat circles and lines as "the same", etc. I would like to kind of show this happening with a series of ...
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Applying an ArrayPlot as a texture to the surface of a cylinder
I would like to apply a matrix plot to the surface of a 3D cylinder. The matrix plot is the output from a custom cellular-automata, and it would be nice to see the lefthand side of the plot connected ...
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Crash when displaying / rasterizing graphics with textures at high resolutions
CAUTION/Disclaimer: execution of some of the code below can result in a complete crash of Mathematica or even your system. Save all your work and do not try in a productive situation.
For a graphical ...
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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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Resampling when using image as Texture
How to get sharp pixel boundaries with Texture? I'd like to have only black/white in the example below, no gray.
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How to texturize ordinary plot [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Coloring Points in a List Plot
I have plot like
ListPlot[Table[{y, y^2}, {y, -1, 1, 0.1}]]
and I would like to colour each of ...
