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Re: [Q] CountorPlot as part of 3D Plot

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  • Subject: [mg4386] Re: [Q] CountorPlot as part of 3D Plot
  • From: wagner at motel6.cs.colorado.edu (Dave Wagner)
  • Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 09:11:36 -0400
  • Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
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In article <4rq7ai$k0u at dragonfly.wolfram.com>,
Harald Berndt  <haraldb at nature.berkeley.edu> wrote:
>Gerd Lanfermann wrote:
>
>> problem: i want to display a 3d plot, of lets say saddle, using
>> Plot3D.
>> I also want to to include a colored contour plot of this saddle  ON THE
>> BOTTOM of the 3D-box, that matches the 3d plot.
>
> You'll probably need to 
>do some massaging of the 2D objects and render the 
>lines/points/polygons as primitives, say in an Epilog.

Whoa!  The standard package Graphics`Graphics3D` contains a
function called ShadowPlot that does almost exactly what you want
(it puts a density plot on the bottom of the bounding box).
If that's not good enough, it will probably be easier to modify
that code than to start from scratch.

		Dave Wagner
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