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Re: Plotting Surfaces from data

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  • Subject: [mg24473] Re: [mg24386] Plotting Surfaces from data
  • From: Derek Stoll <dcstoll at us.ibm.com>
  • Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 01:21:49 -0400 (EDT)
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steffenz at server2.fo.FH-Koeln.DE wrote:

> > Date:          Wed, 12 Jul 2000 23:13:27 -0400 (EDT)
> > From:          Derek Stoll <dcstoll at us.ibm.com>
To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
> > To:            mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
> > Subject: [mg24473]       [mg24386] Plotting Surfaces from data
> > Organization:  IBM Global Services North -- Burlington, Vermont, USA
>
> > I have data of the form, {{x,y,z},...}.  I am trying to plot it on a 3D
> > surface where the color is a function of z.  I have been able to plot it
> > in several ways, but none of them will allow me to set the color as a
> > function of z using the ColorFunction->Hue or any other means that I can
> > come up with.  Can anyone tell me a way to do this?
> > Thank you,
> > Derek
> >
> >
>
> Hi Derek!
>
> I am always konverting the data into a function.
>
> Try this:
>
> f = Interpolation[data]
> Plot3D[funk[x, y], {x,.. ,..}, {y,.. ,.. }, ColorFunction -> Hue]
>
> bye
>
> Steffen
>
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Thank you for your suggestion, but it is not working with my data.  When I
tried it, I got this responce.
Interpolation::indim:
    The coordinates {34.4415190000000004} in dimension 2 are not consistent
with other coordinates in this dimension.
I'm not sure exactly what it means, but it doesn't want to work.  I wonder if
part of the trouble is that Mathematica does not seem to have been designed to
cope well with data not in a straight rectangular grid.  Although I have x,y,z
data, the data is in concentric rings.
Derek



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