Re: how fill PolarPlot?
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- Subject: [mg84445] Re: [mg84420] how fill PolarPlot?
- From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
- Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2007 04:51:09 -0500 (EST)
- Organization: Mathematics & Statistics, Univ. of Mass./Amherst
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Yes, that does it, thank you. But I'm still puzzled as to why I cannot
use the Prolog as I gave it to do the filled right-hand leaf.
Bob Hanlon wrote:
> Show[{
> RegionPlot[(x^2 + y^2)^(1/2) <= Cos[2 ArcTan[y/x]],
> {x, 0, 1}, {y, -1/2, 1/2}],
> PolarPlot[Cos[2 theta], {theta, 0, 2 Pi},
> PlotStyle -> Red]},
> PlotRange -> All]
>
> Show[{
> RegionPlot[(x^2 + y^2)^(3/2) <= x^2 - y^2,
> {x, 0, 1}, {y, -1/2, 1/2}],
> PolarPlot[Cos[2 theta], {theta, 0, 2 Pi},
> PlotStyle -> Red]},
> PlotRange -> All]
>
>
> Bob Hanlon
>
> ---- Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu> wrote:
>> I Mathematica 6 I have a PolarPlot, e.g., a 4-leaved rose:
>>
>> PolarPlot[Cos[2 theta], {theta, 0, 2 Pi}]
>>
>> How can I fill the inside -- or, what I really want, just the leaf in
>> the right half-plane -- with some color?
>>
>> I note that Filling does not seem to be an option for PolarPlot (or for
>> what would be almost as good, ParametricPlot).
>>
>> I tried including the following (obtained by converting from :
>>
>> Prolog->RegionPlot[(x^2 + y^2)^(3/2) <= x^2-y^2, {x,-0.02,1},{y,-1,1},
>> Frame->False, AspectRatio->Automatic]
>>
>> However, that led to a mysterious error message:
>>
>> $Aborted is not a Graphics primitive or directive.
>>
>> (Perhaps because of an incompatibility of a Prolog with cartesian
>> coordinates inside a polar coordinate plot??)
>>
>> --
>> 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
>>
>
--
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