Re: Re: Rotable Graphics and ViewPoint
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- Subject: [mg78497] Re: [mg78454] Re: Rotable Graphics and ViewPoint
- From: DrMajorBob <drmajorbob at bigfoot.com>
- Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2007 05:27:07 -0400 (EDT)
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That's a nice solution, although I was unable to do anything to the
graphic that changed ViewVertical.
Bobby
On Mon, 02 Jul 2007 05:49:22 -0500, Albert <awnl at arcor.net> wrote:
> Helen Read wrote:
>> First of all, I love the ability in 6.0 to grab 3D graphics and spin
>> them around with the mouse. However, it would be nice if there were a
>> more obvious way to return to the original ViewPoint and ViewVertical
>> settings. Re-executing the graphic doesn't do it. I just now discovered
>> that deleting the output cell before re-executing *does* return the
>> graphic to the original ViewPoint / ViewVertical, but this (to me)
>> wasn't an obvious thing to do. (I've had 6.0 for a good six or eight
>> weeks, and I just now thought of it. Up until now I had been copying the
>> input into a new cell and executing the new one, which I found a bit
>> annoying.) OK, deleting the output before re-executing does work, but
>> it's an extra step that I don't think should be necessary.
>>
>> Also, after rotating a graphic with the mouse, it would be nice to have
>> an easy way to save a copy of the input for the graphic with the current
>> ViewPoint (and ViewVertical) settings. Right now the only way I can see
>> to extract the ViewPoint (and ViewVertical) is to open up the output
>> cell (Shft-Ctrl-E), scroll all the way to the end, copy the ViewPoint
>> and ViewVertical, close up the cell, and paste the ViewPoint and
>> ViewVertical into my input. This isn't something I'd ever suggest to my
>> students.
>>
>> So here's what I would really like.
>>
>> 1. Re-executing a 3D graphic would return it to the original ViewPoint
>> and ViewVertical settings.
>>
>> 2. An easy way to make a copy of a graphic with the current ViewPoint
>> and ViewVertical settings pasted into the input, sort of like the way
>> Paste Snapshot works for Manipulate, so that I can delete all output
>> before quitting, come back later and recreate the graphic in the state
>> that I had it.
>
> I don't know if this helps (that is whether or not you would let your
> students do it :-), but have you tried to just copy the Graphics in the
> state you want it into the empty brackets of the code below:
>
> {ViewPoint,ViewVertical} /. FullOptions[]
>
> end execute the Cell? Once getting used to being able to use any
> graphics output as input this is rather obvious. Note that you even can
> continue to rotate in this input-cell, reevaluate and get the new
> viewpoint/viewvertical settings (which is more fun if you increase the
> graphics size by selecting it and drag the (orange?) frame that appears).
>
> Of course one could construct a Palette that reads this information from
> the currently selected graphics object (there was code for a 2D zoom
> tool which could serve as a start), but that would again mean to provide
> code to your students that is not part of mathematica, which I remember
> is something that you rather try to avoid...
>
> albert
>
>
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