Re: Re: how draw box with open front
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- Subject: [mg83836] Re: [mg83825] Re: how draw box with open front
- From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
- Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2007 04:05:20 -0500 (EST)
- Organization: Mathematics & Statistics, Univ. of Mass./Amherst
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Aside from the limitation I describe in a separate reply about my need to scale one dimension, this method has the same defect I described in [mg83811]: spurious artifacts of grid lines across the faces when I export the graphic to EPS. Yves Klett wrote: > Murray Eisenberg schrieb: >> 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. >> > Hi Murray, > > perhaps I am missing something, but why not use a set of Polygons as faces? > > For example: > > Normal[PolyhedronData["Cube"]][[1, 1]] > Most[%] // Graphics3D > > > shows a cube with one face removed in V6. > > Regards, > Yves > -- Murray Eisenberg murray at math.umass.edu Mathematics & Statistics Dept. Lederle Graduate Research Tower phone 413 549-1020 (H) University of Massachusetts 413 545-2859 (W) 710 North Pleasant Street fax 413 545-1801 Amherst, MA 01003-9305
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