Re: Contour Plotting on a sphere
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- Subject: [mg15320] Re: Contour Plotting on a sphere
- From: sidles at u.washington.edu (John Sidles)
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1999 04:15:10 -0500
- Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
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I have had very good luck exporting Mathematica contour plots as
bitmaps, then rendering the bitmap in the public-domain raytracing
program POV-ray, available for most platforms at
http://www.povray.org/
The POV-ray syntax for my application looks like:
#declare deepEnergyDissipationSquare = polygon {
5, <0, 0>, <0, 1>, <1, 1>, <1, 0>, <0, 0>
texture {
finish { ambient 0.4 diffuse 0.4 specular 0.2 }
pigment{image_map { gif "Dissipation.GIF" transmit all 0.3}}}
Here the file "Dissipation.GIF" is a Mathematica bitmap.
In POV-ray, image_maps can be rotated, scaled, wrapped onto a sphere or
cylinder, made transparent ... pretty much anything you want. It
makes a nice adjunct for Mathematica. There is a learning curve,
though.
Good luck ... JAS