Re: Re: how draw box with open front
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- Subject: [mg83902] Re: [mg83892] Re: how draw box with open front
- From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
- Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2007 04:20:37 -0500 (EST)
- Organization: Mathematics & Statistics, Univ. of Mass./Amherst
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The issue is NOT printing directly from Mathematica 6, whether to a
printer or to a pdf file (nor then printing from the created pdf file).
Rather the issue is solely using Export to export the single graphic to
an eps file. It's that file which -- whether viewed directly in
GhostView on-screen, printed from Ghostview, or incorporated into a
LaTeX document and viewed/printed from there -- shows the spurious grid
lines.
Kevin J. McCann wrote:
> Murray,
>
> I am using WindowsXP and I successfully printed the box to my printer
> (HP5400) and to a PDF file. The latter looks fine on screen and when
> printed as well. I am not sure where your problem arises.
>
> Kevin
>
> Murray Eisenberg wrote:
>> With most helpful suggestions from Kevin McCann to use Polygon in the
>> Graphics3D, I've come up with the following which looks the way I want
>> in Mathematica (6):
>>
>> With[{y = 0.85},
>> case = Graphics3D[{
>> EdgeForm[{Thick, Black}], LightGray, Opacity[0.7],
>> Polygon[{{0, 0, 0}, {1, 0, 0}, {1, y, 0}, {0, y, 0}, {0, 0, 0}}],
>> Opacity[0.7],
>> Polygon[{{1, 0, 0}, {1, y, 0}, {1, y, 1}, {1, 0, 1}, {1, 0, 0}}],
>> Polygon[{{0, 0, 1}, {1, 0, 1}, {1, y, 1}, {0, y, 1}, {0, 0, 1}}],
>> Polygon[{{0, y, 0}, {1, y, 0}, {1, y, 1}, {0, 1 y, 1}, {0, y,
>> 0}}], Polygon[{{0, 0, 0}, {0, y, 0}, {0, y, 1}, {0, 0, 1}, {0,
>> 0, 0}}],
>> {Thick, Dashed, Line[{{1, y, 0}, {0.75, y, 0}}],
>> Line[{{0, y, 1}, {0, y, 0.8}}]},
>> txt["y", {1, 0.35, 0.95}], txt["y", {1.105, 0.35, 0.1}],
>> txt["x", {0.6, 0.7, 1.1}], txt["x", {1.12, 0.6, 0.65}]
>> },
>> Boxed -> False, Lighting -> "Neutral", ViewPoint -> {1, -2, 0.75}]
>> ]
>>
>> However, if I Export "case" as EPS and then view it in GhostView (or
>> incorporate it into a LaTeX source and distill the result to pdf), I now
>> see spurious dashed grid lines across the polygonal faces -- in white
>> against the back and left-side polygons and in light gray across the top
>> and right-side polygons. There's also one spurious diagonal drawn
>> across each of those polygons.
>>
>> What happened? How can these spurious elements be eliminated in the
>> exported file?
>>
>> Note that I believe I'm really forced to export to EPS, since the
>> ultimate target is for inclusion in a LaTeX document where the EPS
>> format is required so that TeX can determine the bounding box.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>
--
Murray Eisenberg murray at math.umass.edu
Mathematics & Statistics Dept.
Lederle Graduate Research Tower phone 413 549-1020 (H)
University of Massachusetts 413 545-2859 (W)
710 North Pleasant Street fax 413 545-1801
Amherst, MA 01003-9305
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