Re: Mathematica Animation Problem
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg35447] Re: Mathematica Animation Problem
- From: Jens-Peer Kuska <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
- Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2002 03:48:16 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: Universitaet Leipzig
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- Reply-to: kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de
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Hi, For[alpha = 0.0, alpha < 2 Pi, alpha = alpha + 0.1, Plot3D[Exp[-(x^2 + y^2)], {x, -2, 2}, {y, -2, 2}, {ViewCenter -> {0.5, 0.5, 0.5}, ViewPoint -> {5 Cos[alpha], 5 Sin[alpha], 0.5}}, PlotRange -> {{-2, 2}, {-2, 2}, {-0.5, 1}}, SphericalRegion -> True, Axes -> False ] ] looks fine. You must switch off the axes labels, other wise the jumping text labels will modify the center of the image. Regards Jens Tobi wrote: > > Dear all, > > I hope someone can give me advice concerning the following Mathematica > (Version 4.1) problem: > > I am trying to produce an animation of a circular "walk" around a 3D > plot. I get the animation, but it looks like sometimes I get nearer to > the plot and sometimes the plot looks more distant, so that I don't > get the impression of walking on a circle. > > My guess is that I have not yet understood how the options > "ViewCenter" and "ViewPoint" work. > > So here is what I wrote to produce the image sequence: > > For [alpha = 0.0, alpha < 2 Pi, alpha = alpha + 0.1, > Plot3D[ Exp[-(x^2 + y^2)], {x, -2, 2}, {y, -2, 2}, > {ViewCenter -> {0, 0, 0}, > ViewPoint -> {5 Cos[alpha], 5 Sin[alpha], 0.5}}]] > > So all viewpoints should lie on a circle of radius 5 around the origin > and with a constant height of 0.5. But the visual impression is > different, as decribed above. Anyone knows what's wrong? > > Thanks in advance, > Tobi