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 Principia Consulting (303) 786-8371 dbwagner at princon.com http://www.princon.com/princon ==== [MESSAGE SEPARATOR] ====