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Re: EdgeForm in ParametricPlot3D

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  • Subject: [mg16202] Re: EdgeForm in ParametricPlot3D
  • From: "Allan Hayes" <hay at haystack.demon.co.uk>
  • Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1999 00:40:39 -0500
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William B. Marks wrote in message <7bg2ph$5o8 at smc.vnet.net>...
>How to make a sphere without meshlines? My way is inelegant:
>
>sp = ParametricPlot3D[{Sin[t] Sin[p], Sin[t] Cos[p], Cos[t]},{t, 0, Pi},
>{p, 0, 2Pi}, PlotPoints->25];
>
>Show @ Graphics3D[{EdgeForm[], Apply[List, sp]}];
>
>It works but gives errors.
>
>Any suggestions?
>
William:

Use the optional forth "style" coordinate.

ParametricPlot3D[{Sin[t] Sin[p], Sin[t] Cos[p], Cos[t], EdgeForm[]},{t, 0,
    Pi},
{p, 0, 2Pi}, PlotPoints->25];

(column in the upcoming Mathematica in Education and Research 8.1)

Allan

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