RE: invisible graphics
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg33976] RE: [mg33957] invisible graphics
- From: "Wolf, Hartmut" <Hartmut.Wolf at t-systems.com>
- Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 02:59:48 -0400 (EDT)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
-----Original Message----- > From: caeshmer at yahoo.com [mailto:caeshmer at yahoo.com] To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net > Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 7:22 AM > To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net > Subject: [mg33976] [mg33957] invisible graphics > > > Hi, my request is going to seem sort of silly, so I'll explain what > I'm trying to do. I'm creating some fairly complex plots in > mathematica that are made of curves produced by ParametricPlot[] and > other graphics produced from Graphics[] commands. My problem is that > I want to be able to easily turn certain plots "off" and "on." I'd > like to do this with PlotStyle if possible, but all the obvious things > don't work. For instance, if you do > > Plot[x^2,{x,-1,1},PlotStyle->Thickness[0]] > > you can still see the graph. I've also tried AbsoluteThickness[0], > PointSize[0], AbsolutePointSize[0], and Dashing[{}] and none of them > make the plot disappear. I can't set the color to white, because then > the curves I'm trying to hide appear to erase the other curves in my > picture. > > Does anyone know an option I can give to ParametricPlot that will > cause it to not draw a graph? > If I understand you right, you'r going to make a graph, containing lots of different curves, but want to show different groups of them at different instances. I'd propose to use Show. Make a list of your plots, each of one curve, then on any occassion delete those plots you want to suppress and Show what is left over. Hope that helps -- Hartmut