Questions tagged [graphics3d]
For questions specific to the Graphics3D command and related 3D graphics functionality.
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How can I check to see if two cylinders overlap?
Is there a simple way for me to determine if a cylinder a and cylinder b overlap in the 3D space? I have spent a few hours ...
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How do I draw 2D curves in a 3D plot? [duplicate]
I want to draw 2D curves in a 3D plot. For example, I have a function
F[x_, y_] := (3 x + y(2 + 5 y))/23
and want to plot it as shown below:
I need help with ...
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Plotting a 3D FEA solution on the mesh
I have obtained solution to a 3D FEA problem and would like to plot it on the mesh. The geometry has holes in it. For example, if u[x,y,z] is an interpolation function, obtained from a FEA solution, ...
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How to control box edge for 3D graphics like Plot3D
For example
But I want to strip those box edge except the bottom ones like this
Note that there is still one redundant edge left, because erasing it will be quite ugly with my image editing tool. ...
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3D graphics not showing everything I wanted to see
I am creating a plot for a geodesic dome.. Here is the code:
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Table of Graphics3D with same scale
my code is something like
a = {{Cuboid[]}, {Cuboid[], Cuboid[{1, 0, 0}]},
{Cuboid[], Cuboid[{1, 0, 0}], Cuboid[{0, 1, 0}]}};
Graphics3D/@ a
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Scale size PolyhedronData
How can I plot a truncated cube with size (sqrt(2)-1)? The code I am using is simply
PolyhedronData["TruncatedCube"]
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Problem with 3D surface disconnections [duplicate]
I have a problem with a 3D surface in Mathematica 10.1.
The problem is that the surface comes out disconnected even if it shouldn't.
Here's a minimal toy example showing the problem:
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Drawing a large set of Graphics3D cylinders provided a set of cylinder specifications in a list
I'd like to draw a large number of 3D cylinders using Graphics3D. My list specifying the cylinders has elements that look like the following:
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How can I remove orange-box around the Graphics3D?
I don't know whether this is a correct question or not, but I played from two days on this problem and still I didn't find a solution.
The save button is enabled whenever we have to specify width,...
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How to draw a 3D plot of a function which have two parameters with complex parametric values?
I am trying to draw the 3D figure of the function 1+e^{px+qy} with the complex parametric values p=1+i and q=2-3i. Actually, I am trying to draw a 3D figure of a function of the form f(x,y) = e^{ax+by}...
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How to add a spatial Cartesian coordinate system to a three-dimensional figure and color the corresponding plane? [closed]
The code for drawing three-dimensional graphics is:
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Plotting natural log equation in 3D plane
I have a natural log equation from excel and I need to plot it on 3D plane at a particular z(for example, z=1)
I would expect a vertical plane, but what I am getting is a horizontal plane.
This is ...
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Animating unit basis transformations
I am not sure if my mental block here is conceptual or mechanical (edit below suggests it is conceptual). Suppose I want to show all possible unit basis transforms of a matrix. There are 81 possible ...
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How to combine MeshCellLabel with Placed?
I would like to draw a line between two points and place a label "label" at its center, above the line. It would be also useful if this label remain parallel to the line when rotating the ...
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Quarter circle surface opening outward
I have a Graphics3D issue, I have a cylinder within a cylinder. I want to generate a surface from a quarter circle, but the quarter circle should be "curving ...
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Can this 2D-Venn diagram code--involving Disk--be "upgraded" to a 3D one, involving Sphere?
At https://wolfram.com/language/12/improved-visualization-labeling/venn-diagram.html?product=mathematica
one finds the code
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How to 3DPlot a triple integral in cartesian coordinates
I am trying to make a 3d graph of the triple integral in cartesian coordinates. I am positive that I have been filling out the correct parameters but I am unsure what could be wrong.
Additionally I ...
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How can I plot a function (unidimensional) in a 3D plot
I would like to plot a figure like that using Mathematica.
They figure are three plane wave ( cosine or sin ) all share and have the same coordinate origin. As you observe, the waves propagate along ...
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How to close the contourplot3D from top?
I received a very nice solution by Chip Hurst to make my 3DContourPlots smooth and closed in here. Now I have another problem that is simpler but I still want to know the ideas of the others. The data ...
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Appending barlegend to a combined graphics object?
I have a rather complex looking plot which is a combination of graphics objects, generated by
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Adding a legend to 3D graphics
In[1]:= Quit
In[2]:= data =
Import["data.out", "CSV"];
TableForm[%2]
The data makes a table like:
Planet 1...Planet 2...Planet 3...Planet 4...etc.
x y z .........
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How to export 3D graphics as a .3ds file [closed]
I have made a graphic of a 3D random walk:
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3D Plot with the Manipulate Command
I'm trying to make a 3D Plot using the Manipulate command. The code is:
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Can I plot a cone about an arbitrary axis in 3D? [closed]
I'm playing around with Mathematica to try to produce a 3D visualization of something. I need to generate the surface of a cone with a circular base. But the axis of the cone must be the body diagonal ...
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Animate arrow on sphere based on list
I am trying to animate the movement of an Arrow on a sphere. I have this code that allows me to manipulate the arrow, but I want it to move based on a set of data. I have no idea how to 'listplot' ...
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Animate an object in 3D given by six lines [closed]
I have a structure defined by six line segments connecting six points. The coordinates of the six points change with time. Each coordinate has a formula giving it as a function of time. Three of ...
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How can I connect a curve to a point by a straight line?
I have a curve in space, already plotted:
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SIGSEGV Error on Plotting Tubes
I have code to plot some "2 dimensional" points in 3D space, and connect a line between them (because ListLinePlot3D takes way to long/hangs), which works fine:
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How to plot 3D maximum and minimum surfaces? [closed]
I want to plot the maximum and minimum 3D surface for the following property:
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Having trouble displaying imported Excel regression data [closed]
The plot points and residual lines are not showing, hard-coded data works, and imported data does do something, just not what its supposed to
Is the table or the plot range the wrong size? I can't ...
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How to control the layering of graphics displayed with Show
I am trying to combine two graphics objects using Show.
The first one is an isosurface:
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Visualize fixed points and stable points in 4D
I have a list of 4 dimensional data points which are sum to one and always positive. These points are the fixed points of the 4 dimensional nonlinear ODE. I also found the stable points of the system ...
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Assigning colors to Graphics3D objects from an ordered list
I'd like to draw a set of spheres with colors assigned from a defined set. To provide an example, say I wish to draw a set of three spheres of radius 2 at the positions: {{6, 5, 10}, {1, 4, 20}, {2, ...
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How to fold a known planar figure into a spatial geometry?
A planar expansion diagram of a tetrahedron ABCD is shown in the above figure, where the quadrilateral AEFD has a diamond with a side length of 2Sqrt 2, B and C are the midpoints of AE and FD, ...
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How could a function in a cylindrical coordinate system be plotted? [duplicate]
Below is the code for finding the eigenfunctions and eigenvalues of a particle in the Coulomb field using NDEigensystem. The problem is solved in cylindrical coordinates ($\rho,\theta,z$; $\rho \in [0,...
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Need help to 3D plot of the letter W
Generate a 3 D list plot using the image data from a binarized size - 200 letter "w" as heights
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Getting 3 points although the code describes 1 point in the plane
I'm trying to plot the closest point in the plane to the point P (the one that can be dragged) but in the graph appears 3 points.
in the graph I'm plotting a plane and a point P, I want to add another ...
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Code to do geometric transformation equivalent to dragging by mouse in circle
We can click and drag Graphics3D objects. Suppose you click and drag on such an object in the center of it and move your pointer of mouse in a circle of radius <...
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Graphing and calculating the volume using mathematica (or other)
I posted the following in MSE: (See Here)
Consider two cylinders Cs (solid) and Ch (hollow):
Cylinder Cs has a radius rs, and has the points (x1,y1,z1) and (x2,y2,z2) as the centers of its bases.
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How to add random point size to this distribution of 3d points?
The code below creates a random distribution of points in 3D. Currently, the points have a random size, and the size is the same for all points. I need the points to get individually a random size, ...
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Could anyone help me to plot the following function? [closed]
Unfortunately Mathematica is not able to run the following program
area[d_]:=Pi*d^2/4
Q=80/1000
v[d_]:=Q/area[d]
[Nu]=10^-6
Reynolds[d_]:=v[d]*d/[Nu]
[Epsilon]=0.04/1000
CW[[Lambda],d]:=1/Sqrt[[Lambda]...
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Rotating arc about an axis - with Circle3D. Or not
I borrowed Circle3D from here How to draw a Circle in 3D on a sphere and wrote the code below.
Maybe you can guess: The red and green arcs are rotating as I want them to - about the z-axis.
But I want ...
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How to show these two plots "clearly"?
The following two plots are not visible when shown togather:
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Plotting normal vectors to planes and to paraboloids (picture seems inaccurate)
I have a somewhat complicated picture (actually two) to plot that I've been struggling with in Mathematica... the first one almost worked:
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Retain rotate, zoom and pan in Plot3D generated inside a Palette
Consider the following .wl package:
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Use the new MaterialShading as PlotStyle?
For a no-color print book it can be complicated to find proper gray tones in a multi-function plot to distinguish the curves. One can use different types of gray or dashing, and to some degree it ...
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Wrong height of vertical lines in a 3D plot
I want stack some vertical lines around a circle. I have used tips on ListPointPlot3D with connected points?
Here is my code
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