Re: Tube plot function in Mathematica???
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- Subject: [mg108588] Re: Tube plot function in Mathematica???
- From: Jaebum Jung <jaebum at wolfram.com>
- Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 04:43:41 -0500 (EST)
On 3/23/10 5:52 AM, NeuroPulse wrote: > Greetings, > > New to Mathematica. Can't seem to find a way to plot a line as a tube > like this: > > http://facstaff.unca.edu/mcmcclur/java/LiveMathematica/trefoil.html > > Seems such an obvious function to have built in. Is there one? > > If not, can someone point me to one I can use in Mathematica? > > Thanks > > Check graphics primitive Tube: http://reference.wolfram.com/mathematica/ref/Tube.html Here's example, ParametricPlot3D[{Sin[3t],Sin[t]+2Sin[2t],Cos[t]-2Cos[2t]},{t,0,2 Pi},PlotStyle->Directive[Opacity[0.7],CapForm[None],JoinForm["Miter"],Red],PlotRange->All,ColorFunction->Hue,Boxed->False,MaxRecursion->0,PlotPoints->100,Axes->None,Method->{"TubePoints"->30}]/.Line[pts_,rest___]:>Tube[pts,0.2,rest] - Jaebum