RE: Lost Line Directives in 3D Graphics
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg30180] RE: Lost Line Directives in 3D Graphics
- From: Tom Burton <tburton at brahea.com>
- Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2001 02:19:44 -0400 (EDT)
- References: <ecjdmtck6q6n6tvch6qqalmk684r5e0h7t@4ax.com>
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Hello David,
I'll stipulate that we all see what you see with the arrow with two
coincident lines, but I continue to think what we see does not indicate a
rendering error. So let me turn to another of your examples, the first
additional one you raised in your last memo. In the notebook embedded at
the end of this memo, I tried to reconstruct the example: a book rotating
around the origin with axes in your style. Apart from a little jiggling of
the stems of the axis-arrows, I still don't see anything wrong. Does the
final animation in my notebook look OK to you? Of not, then perhaps you
have found a system-dependent problem.
Regards,
Tom
At 03:00 PM 7/31/01 -0400, David Park wrote:
>I believe that this is more than just round off error, or an arbitrary
>choice of what to display. The example I posted was just one of many similar
>problems I encountered. I posted it because I wanted something that was
>clean and unrelated to my own packages and code. So far, everyone who has
>tried it sees the same effect. Nevertheless, let me describe some of the
>other effects I have obtained.
>
>I am trying to write a notebook that illustrates 3D rotation sequences. I
>use an Arrow3D routine from my DrawingArrows package to draw axes. A 3D
>arrow is composed of a line and a polygonal cone at the tip. I have another
>routine which draws a book rotated about the origin by a rotation matrix.
>
>In one animation, the three axes stay fixed and the book is rotated. In most
>of the frame cells the arrow cone is missing from the y-axis (but not the x
>and z axes). In a few frames the cone suddenly reappears. I am using a fixed
>plot range and the cone itself is not rotating or changing in any way from
>frame to frame. Nor is there any other element on top of or coincident with
>the cone, in 3D or in perspective, in most of the bad frames.
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Tom Burton, <tburton at brahea.com>, <http:www.brahea.com>
353 Sanford Street, Encinitas CA 92024, 760/436-7436