Re: how draw box with open front
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- Subject: [mg83811] Re: [mg83790] how draw box with open front
- From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
- Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2007 05:42:54 -0500 (EST)
- Organization: Mathematics & Statistics, Univ. of Mass./Amherst
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With most helpful suggestions from Kevin McCann to use Polygon in the
Graphics3D, I've come up with the following which looks the way I want
in Mathematica (6):
With[{y = 0.85},
case = Graphics3D[{
EdgeForm[{Thick, Black}], LightGray, Opacity[0.7],
Polygon[{{0, 0, 0}, {1, 0, 0}, {1, y, 0}, {0, y, 0}, {0, 0, 0}}],
Opacity[0.7],
Polygon[{{1, 0, 0}, {1, y, 0}, {1, y, 1}, {1, 0, 1}, {1, 0, 0}}],
Polygon[{{0, 0, 1}, {1, 0, 1}, {1, y, 1}, {0, y, 1}, {0, 0, 1}}],
Polygon[{{0, y, 0}, {1, y, 0}, {1, y, 1}, {0, 1 y, 1}, {0, y,
0}}], Polygon[{{0, 0, 0}, {0, y, 0}, {0, y, 1}, {0, 0, 1}, {0,
0, 0}}],
{Thick, Dashed, Line[{{1, y, 0}, {0.75, y, 0}}],
Line[{{0, y, 1}, {0, y, 0.8}}]},
txt["y", {1, 0.35, 0.95}], txt["y", {1.105, 0.35, 0.1}],
txt["x", {0.6, 0.7, 1.1}], txt["x", {1.12, 0.6, 0.65}]
},
Boxed -> False, Lighting -> "Neutral", ViewPoint -> {1, -2, 0.75}]
]
However, if I Export "case" as EPS and then view it in GhostView (or
incorporate it into a LaTeX source and distill the result to pdf), I now
see spurious dashed grid lines across the polygonal faces -- in white
against the back and left-side polygons and in light gray across the top
and right-side polygons. There's also one spurious diagonal drawn
across each of those polygons.
What happened? How can these spurious elements be eliminated in the
exported file?
Note that I believe I'm really forced to export to EPS, since the
ultimate target is for inclusion in a LaTeX document where the EPS
format is required so that TeX can determine the bounding box.
Murray Eisenberg wrote:
> In Mathematica 6, what's the best way to draw a convincing box
> (rectangular parallelepiped) with an open front?
>
> Of course I tried Cuboid, but no matter how I try to treat the faces, it
> still looks like the front is solid, too.
--
Murray Eisenberg murray at math.umass.edu
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