Reading Directive Values
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- Subject: [mg90862] Reading Directive Values
- From: Andy Anderson <aanderson at amherst.edu>
- Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2008 04:24:10 -0400 (EDT)
- References: <02B22C12-1A92-4F47-B450-3E8338116517@amherst.edu>
On Jul 24, 2008, at 12:48 PM, Jean-Marc Gulliet wrote: > Andy Anderson wrote: > >> I would like to be able to define graphics objects whose color >> scheme, lighting, etc. might be changed by graphics directives in >> an "informed" way. In order to do this, I need to be able to read >> the current state of graphics directives. What I need is a >> function like OptionValue, but I can't find one after substantial >> perusal of official and unofficial documentation. >> For example, I'd like to be able to define something along these >> lines: >> pg = {If[DirectiveValue[Hue][[3]] <= 0.3, Brown, Sequence[], >> Yellow], Polygon[{{1, 0, 0}, {1, 1, 1}, {0, 0, 1}}]} ; >> so that >> Graphics3D[pg] >> Graphics3D[{Red, pg}] >> Graphics3D[{Black, pg}] >> would produce yellow, red, and brown polygons. >> Any suggestions? > > A graphic is an expression as is everything in Mathematica. > Therefore, one can use functions such as *Cases[]* to extract > specific information from a graphic object. > > Below, the inner Cases[] seeks out expressions with head > "Directive" and returns a list of such expressions. The outer cases > looks for expressions with heads matching the second argument of > the function, this within the list previously returned by the inner > Cases[]. > > > In[1]:= DirectiveValue[g_, d_Symbol] := > Cases[Cases[g, r_Directive, Infinity], > d[a__] -> a, Infinity] > > g = Plot3D[Im[ArcSin[(x + I y)^4]], {x, -2, 2}, {y, -2, > 2}, > Mesh -> None, PlotStyle -> Directive[Yellow, > Specularity[White, 20], Opacity[0.8]], > ExclusionsStyle-> {None, Red}] > > DirectiveValue[g, Opacity][[1]] > > DirectiveValue[g, Specularity][[2]] > > Out[2]= <... graphic deleted ...> > > Out[3]= 0.8 > > Out[4]= 20 > > HTH, > -- Jean-Marc Thanks for the suggestion. This would work for me if the directive is assigned to a symbol, but in common use they aren't, as in my examples such as Graphics3D[{Red, pg}]. Mathematica or rather Graphics (3D) tucks their values away somewhere, similar to Sow[], and then applies that to each subsequent graphic, as if with Reap[]. -- Andy