Graphics Packages Facilitating Combination of Plots
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- Subject: [mg16354] Graphics Packages Facilitating Combination of Plots
- From: "Park" <djmp at earthlink.net>
- Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 02:16:35 -0500
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
I have developed two sets of packages, called DrawingPaper and DrawingCube, which implement a different paradigm for producing the kind of graphics that contains many different plotting elements. Instead of making separate plots and then later combining them in a Show statement, all the graphical elements can be initially specified within one Show statement. This makes it much easier to do such things as: combining Plot with ParametricPlot or ImplicitPlot; drawing various branches of a curve in one statement, even if the branches are separated by a finite range; combining multiple surfaces in 3D plots; combining directives such as EdgeForm with ParametricPlot3D, etc. The routines are easy to use because their names and mode of operation mirror the regular Mathematica plot commands. Plot becomes Draw; ParametricPlot becomes ParametricDraw etc. The packages can be down loaded from my web site at http://home.earthlink.net/~djmp/ . There are also two tutorial notebooks, one for two-dimensional graphics and one for three-dimensional graphics, which explain and illustrate the packages. David Park djmp at earthlink.net