Re: Arrows on curves
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- Subject: [mg84201] Re: Arrows on curves
- From: dh <dh at metrohm.ch>
- Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 07:04:39 -0500 (EST)
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Hi Will, have a look at the group archive: http://forums.wolfram.com/mathgroup/archive/1998/Mar/msg00054.html hope ths helps, Daniel willywutang at gmail.com wrote: > Hi, > > I am plotting a parametric curve in 3D space, and I want to simply > place an arrowhead along the curve to show the curve's orientation. > > I tried searching for information on this, and I discovered that there > is a package one could purchase for $50 to get this to work. However, > I am very new to using Mathematica, and thus I'm not sure that I > really need to buy that package at this point. After all, I just want > an arrowhead. > > Is there really no way to place an arrow along a curve using the stand- > alone packages? I would find that very strange, considering all the > fancy bells and whistles that Mathematica has. > > What if the curve is in 2D instead of 3D? Can we place arrows then? > > Thank you, > > Will >