RE: color in SphericalPlot3D
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- Subject: [mg48020] RE: [mg47997] color in SphericalPlot3D
- From: "Wolf, Hartmut" <Hartmut.Wolf at t-systems.com>
- Date: Fri, 7 May 2004 04:29:39 -0400 (EDT)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
- Thread-topic: [mg47997] color in SphericalPlot3D
>-----Original Message----- >From: Maurits Haverkort [mailto:Haverkort at ph2.uni-koeln.de] To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net >Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2004 2:11 PM >To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net >Subject: [mg48020] [mg47997] color in SphericalPlot3D > > >Dear All > >I have a complex function R(t_,f_) of wich I would like to plot >R*Conjugate[R] in 3D. So far no problem, SphericalPlot3D does >this for me. >But I want to conserve phase information, wich I want to put >in the color. >(positive red, negative blue, complex purple). For Real >functions R(t_,f_) I >made the folowing notebook that does not work. It should plot first the >function for R>0 in red and then the part for R<0 in blue. >After combining >the two plots with show everything is blue. Has this problem >been solved >before? Does anybody know how to asign a color to the surface >of a Spherical >3D plot? > >Needs["Graphics`ParametricPlot3D`"]; > > >R = FullSimplify[SphericalHarmonicY[2, 2, t, f] + >SphericalHarmonicY[2, -2, >t, f]]; >plotpos = SphericalPlot3D[If[R >= 0, R Conjugate[R], 0], {t, >0, \[Pi]}, {f, >0, 2\[Pi]}, LightSources -> {{{1, 1, 1}, RGBColor[1, 0, 0]}}]; >plotneg = SphericalPlot3D[If[R <= 0, R Conjugate[R], 0], {t, >0, \[Pi]}, {f, >0, 2\[Pi]}, LightSources -> {{{1, 1, 1}, RGBColor[0, 0, 1]}}]; >Show[plotneg, plotpos] > >Thanks, >Maurits Haverkort > > It's quite simple, as SphericalPlot3D descends from ParametricPlot3D, its retains the optional style component, e.g.: << Graphics`ParametricPlot3D` << Graphics`ArgColors` SphericalPlot3D[ Evaluate[Through[{Abs, ArgColor}[ SphericalHarmonicY[2, 1, theta, phi] ]]], {theta, 0., Pi}, {phi, 0., 2 Pi}, Lighting -> False, PlotPoints -> 50] You must, however, turn the Lighting off. -- Hartmut Wolf