Plotting a curve in space
- To: mathgroup at christensen.cybernetics.net
- Subject: [mg1811] Plotting a curve in space
- From: luke at boombox.arc.nasa.gov (Luke Dones)
- Date: Fri, 18 Aug 1995 02:09:57 -0400
- Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
Hi -- I'd like to plot the orbit of a satellite which has been calculated by numerical integration. The data is basically an array of time (equally spaced) and Cartesian position coordinates x, y, and z. So far I've just been plotting xy and xz projections of the data with a canned package for 2-D graphics. It seemed that Mathematica (which I'm not very familiar with) should be able to plot the orbit in 3 dimensions. But none of the routines mentioned in Wolfram's book seem to do exactly what I want. The output I want would look something like the curve in 3-dimensions produced by ParametricPlot3D, except that I don't have an explicit form for x, y, and z as a function of time. Please reply to this group or luke at boombox.arc.nasa.gov. Thanks, Luke Luke Dones Telephone: (415)604-0125 NASA/Ames 245-3 FAX: (415) 604-6779 Moffett Field, CA 94035-1000 E-mail: luke at boombox.arc.nasa.gov