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Re: Cropping a surface to a sphere

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• Subject: [mg88199] Re: [mg88172] Cropping a surface to a sphere
• From: "W_Craig Carter" <ccarter at mit.edu>
• Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 04:38:19 -0400 (EDT)
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Hell Szabolcs,
In 6, there is the option: RegionFunction -> (#1^2 + #2^2 + #3^2 < 9 &)
Your surface is very pleasing.  If not 6, this would be difficult.

On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 4:58 AM, Szabolcs Horv=E1t <szhorvat at gmail.com> wro=
te:
>
>  Is there a simple way to crop a surface to a sphere?
>
>  For example, consider the surface
>
>  ContourPlot3D[
>    -x^4*y^2 + x^2*y^4 + x^4*z^2 - y^4*z^2 -
>     x^2*z^4 + y^2*z^4 == 1,
>    {x, -3, 3}, {y, -3, 3}, {z, -3, 3},
>    Mesh -> False]
>

W. Craig Carter

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  • Cropping a surface to a sphere
    • From: Szabolcs Horvát <szhorvat@gmail.com>