Re: Evaluation of functions inside Plot
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- Subject: [mg22042] Re: Evaluation of functions inside Plot
- From: Jens-Peer Kuska <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
- Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 02:38:23 -0500 (EST)
- Organization: Universitaet Leipzig
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Hi,
first of all you should try to type your commands correctly.
a)
> Plot3D[
> { Abs[x+y I], Hue[ N[(Pi+Arg[x + yI]) /(2 Pi)]]},
> {x,-2,2},{y,-2,2}],
> AxesLabel->{"Re","Im","Abs[z]"},PlotPoints->15
> ];
has a a "]" behind the {y,-2,2} that close the Plot3D[] function.
b) yI is one symbol and n_o_t y*I or y I
The command:
Plot3D[{Abs[x + y I], Hue[N[(Pi + Arg[x + y I])/(2 Pi)]]}, {x, -2, 2},
{y, -2,
2}, AxesLabel -> {"Re", "Im", "Abs[z]"}, PlotPoints -> 15];
works fine.
Regards
Jens
Hans-Peter Kunzle wrote:
>
> I still do not understand well enough how expressions get
> evaluated inside a Plot or similar functions (NDSolve etc.).
>
> This time I copied the code directly from the (quite old)
> book by T.W. Gray and J. Glynn, Exploring Mathematics with
> Mathematica (p.142):
>
> Plot3D[
> { Abs[x+y I], Hue[ N[(Pi+Arg[x + yI]) /(2 Pi)]]},
> {x,-2,2},{y,-2,2}],
> AxesLabel->{"Re","Im","Abs[z]"},PlotPoints->15
> ];
>
> This produces several error messages
>
> Plot3D::plnc:
> {Abs[x + y I], Hue[(N[([Pi] + Arg[x + yI])\(2 Pi)]]} is neither a
> machine-size real number at {x,y}={-2.,-2.} nor a list of a real number
> and a \alid color directive.
>
> This book was written for Mathematica 2, of course, and presumably
> the code must have worked then. Has anything changed since then?
>
> I have tried to wrap 'Evaluate' around some of the expressions, but
> this had no effect. Since Abs and Arg only work for numerical
> arguments I also tried to replace them by explicit expressions in
> x and y. But this did not help either.
>
> Any help is appreciated.
>
> Hans
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