Re: Plotting a hyperbolic paraboloid (saddle)
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- Subject: [mg78929] Re: Plotting a hyperbolic paraboloid (saddle)
- From: dimitris <dimmechan at yahoo.com>
- Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 05:59:09 -0400 (EDT)
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William S. :
> Does anyone know how to plot a hyperbolic paraboloid?
See here
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/HyperbolicParaboloid.html
Two very examples follows now
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ParametricPlot3D[{u, v, u*v}, {u, -3, 3}, {v, -3, 3}]
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Plot3D[y^2/2 - x^2/3, {y, -2, 2}, {x, -3, 3}]
"Playing" with the options you can make them look
much more better.
Dimitris