Re: how draw box with open front
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- Subject: [mg83820] Re: how draw box with open front
- From: Helen Read <hpr at together.net>
- Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2007 05:47:39 -0500 (EST)
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Murray Eisenberg wrote:
> In Mathematica 6, what's the best way to draw a convincing box
> (rectangular parallelepiped) with an open front?
>
> Of course I tried Cuboid, but no matter how I try to treat the faces, it
> still looks like the front is solid, too.
There's an example in the documenation of Cuboid that uses FaceForm to
specify different properties for the front and back of faces.
Graphics3D[{FaceForm[Yellow, Blue],
Cuboid[Scaled[{.1, -.5, .1}], Scaled[{.9, .8, .9}]]},
PlotRange -> {{-1/4, 5/4}, {1/4, 5/4}, {-1/4, 5/4}}]
To me this looks like the front is open, and even more so with something
like FaceForm[Blue,White] or perhaps FaceForm[Blue, {Opacity[.6], White}
--
Helen Read
University of Vermont
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