Bug: AbsoluteOptions does not work with ViewMatrix
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg86844] Bug: AbsoluteOptions does not work with ViewMatrix
- From: Szabolcs Horvát <szhorvat at gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2008 01:02:08 -0500 (EST)
- Organization: University of Bergen
The documentation states that "With the setting ViewMatrix->Automatic, explicit forms for the matrix m can be found using AbsoluteOptions[g,ViewMatrix]." http://reference.wolfram.com/mathematica/ref/ViewMatrix.html However, AbsoluteOptions[Graphics3D[Cuboid[]], ViewMatrix] gives {ViewMatrix -> Automatic} This is the case even if the graphic has been rotated before using AbsoluteOptions. This is just one of the many graphics options in v6 which do not work with AbsoluteOptions. For many v6 options implementing AbsoluteOptions may be problematic, but I believe that ViewMatrix is not one of these, therefore this is a bug.