Re: Graphics3D Edgeless Polygons
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- Subject: [mg43868] Re: Graphics3D Edgeless Polygons
- From: Jens-Peer Kuska <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
- Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2003 01:54:55 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: Universitaet Leipzig
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Hi,
p0 = {0, 0, 0};
p1 = {1, 1, 1};
dr = 0.05;
ob = {{1, 1, 0}, {1, -1, 0}};
polys = Polygon[{dr(Cos[#]ob[[1]] + Sin[#]ob[[2]]) + p0,
dr(Cos[# + da]ob[[1]] + Sin[# + da]ob[[2]]) + p0,
dr(Cos[# + da]ob[[1]] + Sin[# + da]ob[[2]]) + p1,
dr(Cos[#]ob[[1]] + Sin[#]ob[[2]]) + p1}] & /@ Range[da, 2Pi,
da];
and
Show[Graphics3D[{EdgeForm[], polys}]]
does not help you ?
Regards
Jens
"Steven T. Hatton" wrote:
>
> This looks like it should be obvious, but it isn't. I'm trying to create a
> very narrow cylinder to represent the shaft of a 3-dimensional arrow. This
> is the general idea:
>
> (*ob is a pair of orthonormal "basis" vectors I created relative to
> segment(p0,p1) *)
> da=2Pi/20;
> dr=0.05;
> polys = Polygon[
> {dr(Cos[#]orb[[1]] + Sin[#]ob[[2]]) + p0,
> dr(Cos[# + da]ob[[1]] + Sin[# + da]ob[[2]]) + p0,
> dr(Cos[# + da]ob[[1]] + Sin[# + da]ob[[2]]) + p1,
> dr(Cos[#]ob[[1]] + Sin[#]ob[[2]]) + p1
> }
> ] & /@ Range[da, 2Pi, da];
>
> The problem is the polygons have edges which tend to dominate at this small
> scale. I would like to accomplish the same thing Mesh->False does with
> other graphics. Mesh->False seems not to work in this situation, and I can
> see no way to use EdgeForm[] to accomplish the same kind of effect.
>
> Suggestions?