Re: Mathematica Help: Plotting lines in 3D.
- To: mathgroup at yoda.physics.unc.edu
- Subject: Re: Mathematica Help: Plotting lines in 3D.
- From: twj
- Date: Wed, 3 Feb 93 12:53:24 CST
Ranjan Bagchi writes:
> My question is how to plot a list of 3-tuples as a curve
>in 3-space. I get this list as the output of a RungeKutta
>procedure, and would like to see it this way. However, ListPlot3D
>doesn't do anything close to what I want.
ListPlot3D will plot a surface. You want a line. This can be done
with the function ScatterPlot3D which is defined in the package
Graphics`Graphics3D. This is documented in the Guide To Standard
Packages.
Thus for example
Mathematica 2.1 for NeXT
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-- NeXT graphics initialized --
In[1]:= <<Graphics`Graphics3D`
In[2]:= data = Table[ { t Cos[t], t Sin[t], t},
{t,0,4Pi,Pi/20}];
In[3]:= ScatterPlot3D[ data, PlotJoined -> True]
Out[3]= -Graphics3D-
PlotJoined -> False will result in Points.
Tom Wickham-Jones
Wolfram Research Inc.