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Re: Plotting three-dimensional surfaces

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  • Subject: [mg9396] Re: [mg9380] Plotting three-dimensional surfaces
  • From: Allan Hayes <hay at haystack.demon.co.uk>
  • Date: Sun, 2 Nov 1997 01:02:26 -0500
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Sat, 1 Nov 1997 03:34:04 -0500
From: pns at virginia.edu (Paul N. Schatz) To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
[mg9380] Plotting three-dimensional surfaces

> Is there a 3-d analogue of the function, ImplicitPlot?  For
> example, suppose one wished to plot the surface,
>	(x^2/1 + y^2/2  - z^2/3 ==1).

Paul:

The standard package Graphics`ContourPlot3D` does this sort of thing.

In[1]:= <<Graphics`ContourPlot3D`

In[2]:= ContourPlot3D[x^2/1 + y^2/2  - z^2/3 - 1, 	
	   {x,-2,2},{y,-2,2},{z,-2,2}
	]

Allan Hayes
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