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Re: ParametricPlot3D: specific colour AND shading

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• Subject: [mg21426] Re: ParametricPlot3D: specific colour AND shading
• From: Jens-Peer Kuska <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
• Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2000 00:20:37 -0500 (EST)
• Organization: Universitaet Leipzig
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Hi,

with light you must use SurfaceColor[RGBColor[__]] instead of
a simple color directive to get colored surfaces.

Hope that helps
  Jens

jvera at adinet.com.uy wrote:
> 
> I determine the colour of a ParametricPlot3D
> graphic with a Directive RGBColor. The Option
> Lighting->False is needed for the colour to
> appear.
> 
> The problem is the sense of volume is kind of
> lost, since EdgeForm[] Directive is also present.
> 
> I would like to be able to render graphics with
> both specific colours and shading. A set of
> different graphics with these Directives and Options
> is presented together using the command Show.
> 
> Maybe the Options AmbientLight and Shading have
> something to do with it.
> 
> I looked for this thoroughly (at least I think so) in
> The Mathematica Book and in MathGroup archives, with
> no success.
> 
> Thank you very much for any help.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Julio Vera
> Alenar SA
> Uruguay
> 
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