Timeline for Avoiding graphical "noise" when combining plots with Show
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| Jan 29, 2021 at 12:08 | vote | accept | 220284 | ||
| Jan 28, 2021 at 18:21 | answer | added | Jean-Pierre | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jan 28, 2021 at 14:48 | comment | added | Michael E2 |
Curves are made up of Line segments, surfaces of Polygon objects that are usually broken down into triangles by the rendering machine. Increasing plot points shortens the line segments curves and improves the truncation error. Similarly it should make a more accurate surface. ImageResolution can control some qualities of rendered graphics, but probably not the issues shown in the question, which seem primarily to be issues with plotting.
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| Jan 28, 2021 at 12:54 | comment | added | 220284 | @MichaelE2 So it turns out picking a fairly large number for PlotPoints of the two curves also helps a lot. | |
| Jan 28, 2021 at 11:15 | comment | added | 220284 | @MichaelE2 Many thanks for the hint! There are no lines in my plot, but rather curves plotted with ParametricPlot3D, but I'll experiment with turning these curves into surfaces. That being said, could cranking up certain image parameters help? I tried increasing ImageResolution, but this does not really help. | |
| Jan 28, 2021 at 2:12 | comment | added | J. M.'s missing motivation♦ |
I will second Michael's recommendation to convert all Line[] objects to Tube[] objects, tho choosing a tube radius is not always straightforward, and you'd need to experiment.
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| Jan 27, 2021 at 21:59 | comment | added | Michael E2 |
Generally there are two issues, truncation error arising from discretizing the continuous model in different ways and round-off error when the GPU decides which parts of roughly coplanar polygons or collinear line segments are in front. For bad line-polygon interactions, I consider replacing Line with Tube. Sometimes, for display purposes, I offset coincident elements to force one to be in front of the other (from a particular viewpoint). It's trickier if you want to rotate the 3D model.
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| Jan 27, 2021 at 18:46 | history | asked | 220284 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |