RE: invisible graphics
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg33968] RE: [mg33957] invisible graphics
- From: David.Annetts at csiro.au
- Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 02:59:37 -0400 (EDT)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Hi,
> Hi, my request is going to seem sort of silly, so I'll explain what
> I'm trying to do. I'm creating some fairly complex plots in
> mathematica that are made of curves produced by ParametricPlot[] and
> other graphics produced from Graphics[] commands. My problem is that
> I want to be able to easily turn certain plots "off" and "on." I'd
> like to do this with PlotStyle if possible, but all the obvious things
> don't work. For instance, if you do
>
> Plot[x^2,{x,-1,1},PlotStyle->Thickness[0]]
>
> you can still see the graph. I've also tried AbsoluteThickness[0],
> PointSize[0], AbsolutePointSize[0], and Dashing[{}] and none of them
> make the plot disappear. I can't set the color to white, because then
> the curves I'm trying to hide appear to erase the other curves in my
> picture.
>
> Does anyone know an option I can give to ParametricPlot that will
> cause it to not draw a graph?
Apart from $DisplayFunction->Identity, no.
Another approach might be to AppendTo[finalPlot, subPlot] based on some
criterion, then render the whole lot using
Show[finalPlot, DisplayFunction->$DisplayFunction];
Regards,
Dave.
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Fax: (+612) 9490 5467 David.Annetts at csiro.au
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