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Re: Adding text labels and such to 3D plots?

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  • Subject: [mg52078] Re: [mg52069] Adding text labels and such to 3D plots?
  • From: Andrzej Kozlowski <akoz at mimuw.edu.pl>
  • Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 04:45:16 -0500 (EST)
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On 9 Nov 2004, at 15:37, AES/newspost wrote:

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> If I'm reading The Mathematica Book correctly, one adds Text and 
> similar
> added graphic stuff to 3D graphics by positioning this added stuff at 
> 3D
> or "vector" points in 3D space.
>
> But what if I'd just like to add text labels or other stuff at 
> (scaled?)
> 2D points in the 2D frame within which the 3D graphic is drawn, 
> entirely
> independent of the 3D graphic and its coordinate system?  Any simple 
> way
> to do this?
>
> (Would my favorite graphics command, DisplayTogether[ ], allow
> overlaying or superposing a 2D graphic on a 3D graphic?  I can try this
> for myself, and will, but perhaps someone else already knows the 
> answer.)
>
>
You can always convert a 3D graphic ot a 2D one:

gr = Graphics[Plot3D[x^2 -
       y^2, {x, -1, 1}, {y, -1, 1}, DisplayFunction -> Identity]];

Show[gr, Graphics[Text["hello", {0.5, 0.7}]]]

and so on.

I have no use for DisplayTogether but as you can see Show works as 
might be expected.



Andrzej Kozlowski
Chiba, Japan
http://www.akikoz.net/~andrzej/
http://www.mimuw.edu.pl/~akoz/


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