Re: how draw box with open front
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- Subject: [mg83802] Re: how draw box with open front
- From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
- Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2007 05:38:05 -0500 (EST)
- Organization: Mathematics & Statistics, Univ. of Mass./Amherst
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Thanks for your suggestion, but still there's a front -- the box does
NOT seem to have no front! As soon as the other 5 side polygons are
there, the front is not completely transparent -- you still see it there.
Kevin J. McCann wrote:
> How about this:
>
> Graphics3D[{Red, Opacity[1],
> Polygon[{{0, 0, 0}, {1, 0, 0}, {1, 1, 0}, {0, 1, 0}, {0, 0, 0}}],
> Opacity[0.9],
> Polygon[{{0, 0, 0}, {1, 0, 0}, {1, 0, 1}, {0, 0, 1}, {0, 0, 0}}],
> Polygon[{{0, 0, 1}, {1, 0, 1}, {1, 1, 1}, {0, 1, 1}, {0, 0, 1}}],
> Polygon[{{0, 1, 0}, {1, 1, 0}, {1, 1, 1}, {0, 1, 1}, {0, 1, 0}}],
> Polygon[{{0, 0, 0}, {0, 1, 0}, {0, 1, 1}, {0, 0, 1}, {0, 0, 0}}]}]
>
>
> You can play with the Opacity, but even with both set at 1.0, the front
> looks open.
>
> Kevin
>
> 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.
>>
>
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