Re: Coordinate readout from Graphics3D?
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- Subject: [mg88162] Re: Coordinate readout from Graphics3D?
- From: Szabolcs Horvát <szhorvat at gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2008 06:31:05 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: University of Bergen
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Steve Gray wrote: > I thought I saw somewhere that one could read out coordinates from a > Graphics plot, according to the mouse position. I can't find it now, > and I don't see how it would work with Graphics3D. But anything would > help. Thanks for any info. If you search MathGroup for "3D locator", you will find several threads on this topic. Here's one: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.soft-sys.math.mathematica/browse_thread/thread/3f40635cfe3356d6/dd11ad46016b8475 The idea is to use MousePosition["Graphics3DBoxIntercepts"] to find out where a line perpendicular to the screen intersects the 3D bounding box. If you are only interested in 2D, take a look at Locator, or, in Mathematica 6.0.2, the "get coordinates" drawing tool accessible from Graphics -> Drawing tools (CTRL-D).