Re: Why does "Normal" not create a list of line graphics
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- Subject: [mg114001] Re: Why does "Normal" not create a list of line graphics
- From: "Carl K. Woll" <carlw at wolfram.com>
- Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2010 06:13:47 -0500 (EST)
On 11/19/2010 4:10 AM, arw235 wrote:
> Can anyone suggest why the behavior is different in each of the
> following:
>
> This doesn't work:
>
> In[95]:= v = {{{1, 0}, {0, 1}}, {{-1, 0}, {0, -1}}};
> Normal[GraphicsComplex[v, Line[{1, 2}]]]
>
> Out[96]= GraphicsComplex[{{{1, 0}, {0, 1}}, {{-1, 0}, {0, -1}}},
> Line[{1, 2}]]
>
> This does work:
>
> In[99]:= v = {{1, 0}, {0, 1}, {-1, 0}, {0, -1}};
> Normal[GraphicsComplex[v, Line[{1, 2, 3, 4}]]]
>
> Out[100]= {Line[{{1, 0}, {0, 1}, {-1, 0}, {0, -1}}]}
>
>
>
The documentation has:
?GraphicsComplex
GraphicsComplex[{Subscript[pt, 1],Subscript[pt, 2],\[Ellipsis]},data]
represents a graphics complex in which coordinates given as integers i
in graphics primitives in data are taken to be Subscript[pt, i]. >>
In your first version, v is not a list of coordinates, while in your
second version v is a list of coordinates.
Carl Woll
Wolfram Research