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Re: Mathematica Help: Plotting lines in 3D.

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  • Subject: Re: Mathematica Help: Plotting lines in 3D.
  • From: twj
  • Date: Wed, 3 Feb 93 12:53:24 CST

Ranjan Bagchi writes:
 

>	My question is how to plot a list of 3-tuples as a curve
>in 3-space.  I get this list as the output of a RungeKutta
>procedure, and would like to see it this way.  However, ListPlot3D
>doesn't do anything close to what I want.

ListPlot3D will plot a surface.  You want a line.  This can be done
with the function ScatterPlot3D which is defined in the package
Graphics`Graphics3D.  This is documented in the Guide To Standard
Packages.

Thus for example

	Mathematica 2.1 for NeXT
	Copyright 1988-92 Wolfram Research, Inc.
	 -- NeXT graphics initialized -- 


	In[1]:= <<Graphics`Graphics3D`

	In[2]:= data = Table[ { t Cos[t], t Sin[t], t}, 

					{t,0,4Pi,Pi/20}];

	In[3]:= ScatterPlot3D[ data, PlotJoined -> True]

	Out[3]= -Graphics3D-

PlotJoined -> False will result in Points.


Tom Wickham-Jones
Wolfram Research Inc.






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