Re: how to draw the contour lines on a surface
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- Subject: [mg3934] Re: how to draw the contour lines on a surface
- From: Dr Phillip Kent <p.kent at ic.ac.uk>
- Date: Fri, 10 May 1996 03:30:27 -0400
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goffinet <goffinet at cit-novell.univ-st-etienne.fr> wrote: > I'm sure the answer lies somewhere inthe Mathematica journal, but I >have been unable to find it The tricks required are in the book "Mathematica Graphics" by Tom Wickham-Jones (Springer TELOS, 1995). > > I want to get an image of a surface (with z=z(x,y) would be a good >start, with an implicit surface it would be even better) with the lines >z=Constant drawn on it. I don't want to Solve diffirential equations or >such, merely to make use of what is already done in ContourPlot (or >ImplicitPlot) and to draw the lines on the surface > > How can one get the Lines[... , ... , ] which are used by the >final display of a ContourPlot? > Actually we've done a Mathematica notebook all about this... http://metric.ma.ic.ac.uk/seminar/surfcont.ma -- ----------------------------------+---------------------------- Dr Phillip Kent | tel: +44 (0)171 594 8503 The METRIC Project | fax: +44 (0)171 594 8517 Mathematics Department | Imperial College | p.kent at ic.ac.uk London SW7 2BZ, U.K. | http://metric.ma.ic.ac.uk/ ----------------------------------+---------------------------- "I can use punctuation or not and it doesnt even matter I'm obscure when I feel like it" - Ted Berrigan ==== [MESSAGE SEPARATOR] ====