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Re: Problem with Show, Can't Give More than 5 Arguments

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  • Subject: [mg42762] Re: [mg42748] Problem with Show, Can't Give More than 5 Arguments
  • From: Selwyn Hollis <selwynh at earthlink.net>
  • Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 05:08:07 -0400 (EDT)
  • Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

Have you tried PlotRange->All?

-----
Selwyn Hollis
http://www.math.armstrong.edu/faculty/hollis

On Thursday, July 24, 2003, at 04:10  AM, Gil wrote:

> I'm having a problem which I hope is very simple, but I'm new to
> Mathematica.  I have 18 spheres, and I want to plot them in 3 
> dimensions.
> This is what I tried:
>
> Needs["Graphics`Shapes`"];
> Show[
>   TranslateShape[Graphics3D[Sphere[]],{15, 35, 12}],
>   TranslateShape[Graphics3D[Sphere[]],{85, 3, 10}],
>   TranslateShape[Graphics3D[Sphere[]],{1, 3, 13}],
>   TranslateShape[Graphics3D[Sphere[]],{1, 12, 8}],
>   TranslateShape[Graphics3D[Sphere[]],{0, 0, 0}],
>   TranslateShape[Graphics3D[Sphere[]],{17, 0, 2}],
>   TranslateShape[Graphics3D[Sphere[]],{10, 200, 200}],
>   TranslateShape[Graphics3D[Sphere[]],{200, 10, 26}],
>   TranslateShape[Graphics3D[Sphere[]],{11, 70, 25}],
>   TranslateShape[Graphics3D[Sphere[]],{3, 2, 17}],
>   TranslateShape[Graphics3D[Sphere[]],{24, 0, 1}],
>   TranslateShape[Graphics3D[Sphere[]],{0, 0, 1}],
>   TranslateShape[Graphics3D[Sphere[]],{51, 0, 4}],
>   TranslateShape[Graphics3D[Sphere[]],{10, 0, 1}],
>   TranslateShape[Graphics3D[Sphere[]],{0, 0, 0}],
>   TranslateShape[Graphics3D[Sphere[]],{4, 0, 0}],
>   TranslateShape[Graphics3D[Sphere[]],{1, 0, 0}],
>   TranslateShape[Graphics3D[Sphere[]],{1, 1, 5}]
> ];
>
> However, not all the spheres get plotted.  For example, (10, 200, 200) 
> is
> not plotted.  So I decided to try adding them one at a time.   I got 
> this
> far
>
> Needs["Graphics`Shapes`"];
> Show[
>   TranslateShape[Graphics3D[Sphere[]],{15, 35, 12}],
>   TranslateShape[Graphics3D[Sphere[]],{85, 3, 10}],
>   TranslateShape[Graphics3D[Sphere[]],{1, 3, 13}],
>   TranslateShape[Graphics3D[Sphere[]],{1, 12, 8}],
>   TranslateShape[Graphics3D[Sphere[]],{0, 0, 0}]
> ];
>
> And everything was plotted.  However, when I added one more point
>
> Needs["Graphics`Shapes`"];
> Show[
>   TranslateShape[Graphics3D[Sphere[]],{15, 35, 12}],
>   TranslateShape[Graphics3D[Sphere[]],{85, 3, 10}],
>   TranslateShape[Graphics3D[Sphere[]],{1, 3, 13}],
>   TranslateShape[Graphics3D[Sphere[]],{1, 12, 8}],
>   TranslateShape[Graphics3D[Sphere[]],{0, 0, 0}],
>   TranslateShape[Graphics3D[Sphere[]],{10, 200, 200}]
> ];
>
> All of a sudden it looked like neither (10, 200, 200) nor (85, 3, 10) 
> were
> plotted any more.  I decided trying to take out one point
>
> Needs["Graphics`Shapes`"];
> Show[
>   TranslateShape[Graphics3D[Sphere[]],{15, 35, 12}],
>   TranslateShape[Graphics3D[Sphere[]],{85, 3, 10}],
>   TranslateShape[Graphics3D[Sphere[]],{1, 12, 8}],
>   TranslateShape[Graphics3D[Sphere[]],{0, 0, 0}],
>   TranslateShape[Graphics3D[Sphere[]],{10, 200, 200}]
> ];
>
> And everything was OK again.  So, as far as I can tell, if I have more 
> than
> 5 arguments to Show, it doesn't show all of them.
>
> To see if it might have anything to do with the Sphere function, I
> substituted Cuboids, bu t I got exactly the same problem.  The same 
> pattern
> of objects was not plotted.
>
> Show[
>   Graphics3D[Cuboid[{15, 35, 12}]],
>   Graphics3D[Cuboid[{85, 3, 10}]],
>   Graphics3D[Cuboid[{1, 3, 13}]],
>   Graphics3D[Cuboid[{1, 12, 8}]],
>   Graphics3D[Cuboid[{0, 0, 0}]],
>   Graphics3D[Cuboid[{17, 0, 2}]],
>   Graphics3D[Cuboid[{10, 200, 200}]],
>   Graphics3D[Cuboid[{200, 10, 26}]],
>   Graphics3D[Cuboid[{11, 70, 25}]],
>   Graphics3D[Cuboid[{3, 2, 17}]],
>   Graphics3D[Cuboid[{24, 0, 1}]],
>   Graphics3D[Cuboid[{0, 0, 1}]],
>   Graphics3D[Cuboid[{51, 0, 4}]],
>   Graphics3D[Cuboid[{10, 0, 1}]],
>   Graphics3D[Cuboid[{0, 0, 0}]],
>   Graphics3D[Cuboid[{4, 0, 0}]],
>   Graphics3D[Cuboid[{1, 0, 0}]],
>   Graphics3D[Cuboid[{1, 1, 5}]]
> ];
>
> Any ideas why Mathematica isn't drawing everything it's being asked to 
> draw?
> Thanks to anyone who can help!
>
>
>


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