Re: ParametricPlot3D Options
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- Subject: [mg43353] Re: ParametricPlot3D Options
- From: "Steve Luttrell" <luttrell at _removemefirst_westmal.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 07:13:27 -0400 (EDT)
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My way of "rationalising" this way of using ParametricPlot3D is to imagine that the fourth component represents an internal coordinate, so you have a 2-dimensional surface embedded in a 4-dimensional space rather than a 3-dimensional space. One way to represent this internal coordinate is to use various graphics tricks (e.g. colour, etc). Turning this back to front, you might as well place any parameter-dependent (or parameter-independent) graphics in the fourth component. However, I am perplexed that PlotStyle is not available (for parameter-independent graphics) in addition to the above 4-dimensional trick. -- Steve Luttrell West Malvern, UK "Selwyn Hollis" <selwynh at earthlink.net> wrote in message news:bicgkf$1v7$1 at smc.vnet.net... > Ahh.. my own favorite, long-standing complaint: No PlotStyle option for > ParametricPlot3D. Why this DESIGN FLAW still persists after all these > years/versions is beyond me. > > Anyway, here's the arcane way to work around it: > > ParametricPlot3D[{Sin[t],Cost[t],t/10, {Hue[0],Thickness[.01]}}, > {t,0,4Pi}] > > ----- > Selwyn Hollis > http://www.math.armstrong.edu/faculty/hollis > > > On Sunday, August 24, 2003, at 04:55 AM, Flurchick, Kenneth M wrote: > > > GentleBeings > > I have a ParametricPlot3D which is a line in space > > I want to change the color and thickness of the line > > in Plot this is PlotStyle > > but Prolog and Shaw do not seem to work > > Hints??? > > kenf > > > > >