Graphics package in v6
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- Subject: [mg78406] Graphics package in v6
- From: "Jaccard Florian" <Florian.Jaccard at he-arc.ch>
- Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2007 06:12:22 -0400 (EDT)
Dear group,
I'm a convinced Mathematica user, I love the new features I discover in v6, but I think the Graphics package was very useful in v5 and I'm missing it.
For example, it was very easy to obtain the 3D plot of a surface of revolution around the x-axis with SurfaceOfRevolution.
Let us take the revolution of y=x^2 around the x-axis :
<< "Graphics`"
SurfaceOfRevolution[x^2, {x, 0, 2}, RevolutionAxis -> {1, 0, 0}]
Not possible without cheating if using RevolutionPlot3D, isn't it=A0?
Or you could have a nice plot of implicit functions, with the ticks on the x- and y-axis, using ImplicitPlot...
Example :
<< "Graphics`"
ImplicitPlot[x^3*y + x*y^3 == 2, {x, -3, 3}, {y, -3, 3}]
Not possible using CountourPlot without cheating, isn't it?
(I consider the following as cheating :
Show[Plot[0, {x, -3, 3}, PlotRange -> {-3, 3},
AspectRatio -> Automatic],
ContourPlot[x^3*y + x*y^3 == 2, {x, -3, 3}, {y, -3, 3},
Axes -> True,
AxesOrigin -> {0, 0}, PerformanceGoal -> "Quality",
PlotPoints -> 150]]
)
I tried: it still works in v6, but the whole package is declared obsolete, and there is no help anymore available.
Am I missing something? Or am I the only guy who would appreciate the re-apparition of some lost features in the future v.6.1?
Reactions welcome!
Regards
Florian Jaccard