rendering with Polygon vs. Cuboid
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg27316] rendering with Polygon vs. Cuboid
- From: pinhead at sonic.net (Matthias Schabel)
- Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 03:05:25 -0500 (EST)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
With the proviso that the code is cludgy and that I'm not really
proficient in Mathematica, I'm curious to know why the call to
boxCuboid and the call to boxCube don't render the same way - the
former gives me what I expect, while the latter is truncated along
the y-axis. Since RotateShape doesn't allow me to operate on the
Cuboid primitives, I obviously would like the polygon representation
to work. BTW, the overall objective here is to be able to create
groups of polygons representing an object and then render multiple
copies of the same object with differing orientations using
RotateShape, TranslateShape, etc...
Thanks in advance for any advice...
Matthias
Notebook[{
Cell[BoxData[
\(<< Graphics`Shapes`\)], "Input",
InitializationCell->True],
Cell[BoxData[
\(\(cube[start_,
end_] := {Polygon[{{start[\([1]\)], start[\([2]\)],
start[\([3]\)]}, {end[\([1]\)], start[\([2]\)],
start[\([3]\)]}, {end[\([1]\)], end[\([2]\)],
start[\([3]\)]}, {start[\([1]\)], end[\([2]\)],
start[\([3]\)]}}],
Polygon[{{start[\([1]\)], start[\([2]\)],
end[\([3]\)]}, {end[\([1]\)], start[\([2]\)],
end[\([3]\)]}, {end[\([1]\)], end[\([2]\)],
end[\([3]\)]}, {start[\([1]\)], end[\([2]\)],
end[\([3]\)]}}],
Polygon[{{start[\([1]\)], start[\([2]\)],
start[\([3]\)]}, {start[\([1]\)], end[\([2]\)],
start[\([3]\)]}, {start[\([1]\)], end[\([2]\)],
end[\([3]\)]}, {start[\([1]\)], start[\([2]\)],
end[\([3]\)]}}],
Polygon[{{end[\([1]\)], start[\([2]\)],
start[\([3]\)]}, {end[\([1]\)], end[\([2]\)],
start[\([3]\)]}, {end[\([1]\)], end[\([2]\)],
end[\([3]\)]}, {end[\([1]\)], start[\([2]\)],
end[\([3]\)]}}],
Polygon[{{start[\([1]\)], start[\([2]\)],
start[\([3]\)]}, {end[\([1]\)], start[\([2]\)],
start[\([3]\)]}, {end[\([1]\)], start[\([2]\)],
end[\([3]\)]}, {start[\([1]\)], start[\([2]\)],
end[\([3]\)]}}],
Polygon[{{start[\([1]\)], end[\([2]\)],
start[\([3]\)]}, {end[\([1]\)], end[\([2]\)],
start[\([3]\)]}, {end[\([1]\)], end[\([2]\)],
end[\([3]\)]}, {start[\([1]\)], end[\([2]\)],
end[\([3]\)]}}]};\)\)], "Input",
InitializationCell->True],
Cell[BoxData[{
\(frameCuboid[x_, y_, z_, dx_, dy_, dz_] :=
Cuboid[{x, y, z}, {x + dx, y + dy, z + dz}]\),
"\[IndentingNewLine]",
\(frameCube[x_, y_, z_, dx_, dy_,
dz_] := \[IndentingNewLine]cube[{x, y, z}, {x + dx, y + dy,
z + dz}]\)}], "Input"],
Cell[BoxData[{
\(\(boxCuboid[x_, y_, z_] := {frameCuboid[x, y, z, 36, 24,
30.175],
frameCuboid[x + 1, y - 1, z + 1, 17, 2, 22],
frameCuboid[x + 1, y - 1, z + 23, 17, 2, 6],
frameCuboid[x + 18, y - 1, z + 1, 17, 2, 22],
frameCuboid[x + 18, y - 1, z + 23, 17, 2, 6]};\)\), "\n",
\(Show[Graphics3D[boxCuboid[0, 0, 0]]]\)}], "Input"],
Cell[BoxData[{
\(\(boxCube[x_, y_, z_] := {frameCube[x, y, z, 36, 24, 30.175],
frameCube[x + 1, y - 1, z + 1, 17, 2, 22],
frameCube[x + 1, y - 1, z + 23, 17, 2, 6],
frameCube[x + 18, y - 1, z + 1, 17, 2, 22],
frameCube[x + 18, y - 1, z + 23, 17, 2, 6]};\)\), "\n",
\(Show[Graphics3D[boxCube[0, 0, 0]]]\)}], "Input"]
},
FrontEndVersion->"4.0 for Microsoft Windows",
ScreenRectangle->{{0, 1024}, {0, 695}},
WindowSize->{496, 599},
WindowMargins->{{18, Automatic}, {Automatic, 23}}
]