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Re: Re: Changing "point" styles in 3D plots

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• Subject: [mg79840] Re: [mg79803] Re: Changing "point" styles in 3D plots
• From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
• Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 03:40:44 -0400 (EDT)
• Organization: Mathematics & Statistics, Univ. of Mass./Amherst
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• Reply-to: murray at math.umass.edu

Or, in Mathematica 6, where StyleForm gets replaced by Style; the part 
"FontSize-> of the option are not needed; and with a termnal semicolon 
after the ParametericPlot3D expression you don't see an extra Graphics3D 
display before the final one:

   point1 = Graphics3D[
     Text[Style["X", 14], {3*Cos[3*(Pi/2)], 3*Sin[3*(Pi/2)], 2}]];
   p1 = ParametricPlot3D[{3*Cos[t], 3*Sin[t], 2}, {t, 0, 2*Pi}];
   Show[{p1, point1}]

Even with those changes, is the letter X really where it should be, from 
an appearance consideration?  You have to use some trial and error, 
perhaps, to get it right.

Another way is to convert the 3D graphics to 2D graphics (by means 
previously posted in this newsgroup), then use the 2D Drawing Tools to 
place the letter visually.

Which brings up a question: When using the Text Tool from the 2D Drawing 
Tools, is there some way to change the font properties except by means 
of the Option Inspector?  (Surely it ought to be on the 2D Graphics 
Inspector that opens from the 2D Drawing Tools palette.)


chuck009 wrote:
> Here's an option for placing letters at points on a ParametricPlot3D.  I just create the graphics primitive.  In the case below, it's a Graphics3D text object.
> 
> point1 = Graphics3D[Text[StyleForm["X", FontSize -> 14], 
>      {3*Cos[3*(Pi/2)], 3*Sin[3*(Pi/2)], 2}]]; 
> p1 = ParametricPlot3D[{3*Cos[t], 3*Sin[t], 2}, {t, 0, 2*Pi}]
> Show[{p1, point1}]
> 

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  • Re: Changing "point" styles in 3D plots
    • From: chuck009 <dmilioto@comcast.com>