Questions tagged [graphics]
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 Plot commands.
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Use Mathematica to implement a Penney's game solver
In Penney's game , player A selects a sequence of heads and tails (of length 3 or larger), and shows this sequence to player B. Player B then selects another sequence of heads and tails of the same ...
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Graphing curves formed by a rolling polygon
I am trying to make a Mathematica graphing function that would generalize common phenomena. How would I do this?
From a circle, we can generate a cycloid (if rolling on a line) or a sine wave (if ...
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Diploria labyrinthiformis - can we reproduce Ernst Haeckel's drawing of a brain coral?
Ernst Haeckel (1834 - 1919) was a German philosopher, physician, artist and professor of zoology at the University of Jena. He promoted and popularised Charles Darwin's work in Germany.
Haeckel (left)...
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How to plot points on a grid given by two vectors? [closed]
I am trying to do a very simple task that is automatic on Matlab for example, but it is not trivial for me in Mathematica:
Given two vectors for example:
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How to place Objects in Graphics in front or behind other objects using Inset[] in Mathematica13.3?
I made several 2DGraphics using Mathematica v12.0.
To define if an object is placed in front of another or behind, I simply changed the order of the Inset. In this ...
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Rotating text in the Epilog of a plot results in distortion
I want to rotate text in a plot. When I rotate by 90 degrees, or 180, it's perfectly OK. But if I want to rotate to 60 or 45 degrees, then the text appears distorted (see example below). How can I fix ...
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Digits of Pi in colored spiral
In How to make the digits of π go around in a spiral like this?
it is described how to plot pi in a spiralform (in my case as binary number):
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Sum of its parts - replicating a porcelain sculpture of Nuala O’Donovan
1. Introduction
Nuala O’Donovan is an Irish Artist, living and working in Cork. According to her website her research areas are "Irregularities in Patterns in Nature" and "The Geometry ...
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Making a Scanimation
Scanimations are also known as a barrier grid animation. These work by overlaying a screen with black (or in the gif below, red) bars separated by transparent bars.
The red bar width is an integer ...
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How to project point in Graphics3D to the plane of the screen?
The code bellow depicts two black points {0,0,0} and {2,1,-1/2}. Projection of the point ...
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How can we reproduce Otti Bergers winding carpet patterns?
Otti Berger was a textile designer and weaver of Jewish heritage. She was born in Zmajevac (Austro-Hungarian Empire, present day Croatia) in 1898. Berger attended the Bauhaus school between 1926 and ...
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How to weave Anni Albers Red Meander carpet?
Anni Albers (1899 - 1994) was a German artist regarded as one of the most influential textile designers of the 20th century. Since 1931 Albers was head of the Bauhaus weaving workshops in Dessau and ...
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Aligning object in Graphic
When I try putting dot graph(ListPlot) named dg as below to my Histogram graphic.The horizental axis is not exactly aligned. How to fix my code?
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Low EPS export quality for Histogram/BarChart
I like to export a figure as an EPS and continue to edit it afterwards (e.g., with inkscape). In the past, I was only exporting plots and everything worked fine: figures had high quality, and I could ...
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How to Create a Contour Plot on a Surface of a Unit Sphere from a Table of Values? [SOLVED]
I've generated a table of the form
tupleListImport = {{theta_1, phi_1, value_1},{theta_2, phi_2, value_2},{theta_3, phi_3, value_3},.....,{theta_n, phi_n, value_n}},
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theta is a polar angle (in ...
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Adding an object across multiple objects
To add Arrow connecting the red point across two Show[] function result as below, Could I know how to modify my code?
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Why PlotStyle affects style of mesh in 3D?
In the documentation of PlotStyle we can read:
PlotStyle->None specifies that the main objects in a plot should not
be drawn explicitly, though mesh and filling ...
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Construction of a Fuller dome
Cover of TIME magazine, January 10, 1964
Richard Buckminster Fuller (1895 - 1983) was an American architect and designer. He popularized the Geodesic Dome. Carbon molecules are also known as ...
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How to make this optical illusion in 3D with Tube instead of Line?
I made this optical illusion so that the half spheres disappear at some point and another illusion is that you may switch from perceiving spheres from convex to concave and vice versa.
How to do the ...
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How can I draw a rubik has the form a pyramid like this?
I want to draw to this picture. I am sorry, I do not know how to tell Mathematica do this. I do not know how to start.
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Overlapping graphics [closed]
My goal is to overlap theoretical graphs (Figure 1) and simulated graphs (Figure 2). (※These theoretical curves are the normal distribution curve and the theoretical curve of the sample average). The ...
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How to achieve local area distortion zoom?
This work was authored by Victor Vasarely. I wanted to reproduce a similar image effect and colour effect.
I made a simple attempt to draw out the original background section first.
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Distributing points on boundary (roughly) evenly
How to get roughly evenly distributed mesh points along boundary?
We can see marked by red circles, that some points are too close to each other while others are too apart from each other.
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How to produce an Itten color star?
Johannes Itten (1888 - 1967) was a Swiss painter and designer
From 1919 to 1922, Itten taught at the Bauhaus School in Weimar, teaching his students the basics of materials, composition and color. ...
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To draw a function within an interval [closed]
I need to draw this function: z=f(x), where z=tanh(y) and y=sin(x), within a range of x(-2Pi,2Pi)?
Should I use "Plot" function or some other built-in functions?
Thank you
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Creating a `Labeled` with left-justification?
What is the easiest way to have a label below a plot that's left justified?
I've tried Labeled, but can't find a way to get the result to be left-justified on the ...
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Show the translated version of a plot alongside another graphics object
I want to demonstrate the fact that the main part of a Mandelbrot fractal is consisted of a cardioid and some circles. So at first, I wrote this line:
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How do you create a program to calculate the spectrum of a pulse of arbitrary shape?
Develop a program designed to compute the spectrum of a pulse with an arbitrary shape. My current program might not suitable for solving this problem.
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How to produce a Calder mobile?
Alexander Calder (1898 - 1976) was an American artist known for for his mobiles and his public sculptures.
Here are two examples of his mobiles which I want to approximately reproduce with ...
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Drawing arrow without filling
How can I draw an arrow which is empty inside and only has a border?
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Clipping graphics of ellipsoids
Say I have the following code to generate a graphics object
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Help fixing dynamic graphics with multiple features
I'm trying to create a graph drawing widget, here are its basics that just allow you to create and drag vertices:
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Mimicking Günther Uecker's nail art
One of my favourite contemporary artists is Günther Uecker (born 13 March 1930 in Crivitz, Germany). He uses hammer and nails to create VectorPlot-like structures. ...
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How to make a stereograph? [duplicate]
I’m interested in creating my own stereo graph like this one below. These got popular a few years back in malls. If you focus on a point passed the screen a 3d object appears in 3d. I’m wondering if ...
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How do I plot a 2D function with an intermediate variable?
I have a function
$c\cdot\frac{x^2}{x^2 + 10^{-6.367}*x + 10^{-6.367-10.32}} + x = c\cdot\frac{10^{-6.367-10.32}}{x^2 + 10^{-6.367}*x + 10^{-6.367-10.32}}+\frac{10^{-14}}{x}$, where $0 < x < 10^{...
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How do you achieve this optical illusion of a picture?
In MSE by a similar problem about the optical illusion, but I feel that the solution ideas of other problems can not be applied to the following diagram, I would like to ask you how to draw this kind ...
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How's Plot3D implemented?
I used the following code to plot all points calculated when plotting a surface:
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Curvature of a Klein bottle
1. Problem statement
An old answer of mine:
Computing Gaussian curvature shows how to color parametric curves
and surfaces according to their curvature. However, the methods used there will fail for ...
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How to draw an equation in an irregular ImplicitRegion？ [closed]
I am trying to draw an equation in an specific area. I use ImplicitRegion to define the area. I can use RegionPlot to draw the ...
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Lattices drawings
I want to generate an image in order to explain a construction. The construction is the following. Start from a finite-sized 2D square lattice, create 3 copies of the starting lattice and place them ...
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Fitting experimental data to a plot with different x-axis paths
Given Mathematica code of eigenvalues in different variable-paths , I want to add experimental data in the path Gamma-X ; X-Gamma ; and M-Gamma .
Here is the code :
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Lens on a map. Realistic imitation of magnifying glass on images with text and other small features
UPDATE: Code from this post was used for video generation here:
Cinematically moving a lens over images: magnifying glass effect in videos
I am trying to create a magnifying glass effect for images ...
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How can I draw sequence of these fractal squares?
For the first square, I tried
Graphics[{Green, Rectangle[{0, 0}, {3, 3}]}]
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Hat Polykite Shape
How can I create the hat polykite shape, also known as the "einstein" in mathematics?
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How can we plot horizontal prediction bands?
1. Problem statement
Some game days before the end of a league season I want to show the possible final rankings (depending upon the results of the outstanding games).
2. Example data (situation after ...
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