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Re: tetrahedron problem

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  • Subject: [mg82110] Re: tetrahedron problem
  • From: Mark Fisher <particlefilter at gmail.com>
  • Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 02:58:39 -0400 (EDT)
  • References: <fei306$qgo$1@smc.vnet.net><fei5fj$rt0$1@smc.vnet.net>

On Oct 10, 5:19 am, Jens-Peer Kuska <ku... at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> PolyhedronData[""Tetrahedron"] *is* already a 3d graphics and
> Show[PolyhedronData["Tetrahedron"]]
> but the show is useless because Mathematica will display the
> 3d graphics without the Show[].
>
> Regards
>    Jens
>
> Mark Fisher wrote:
> > Hi all,
>
> > PolyhedronData["Tetrahedron"]
>
> > works fine, but
>
> > Show[Graphics3D[PolyhedronData["Tetrahedron"]]]
>
> > generates an error ("Graphics is not a Graphics3D primitive or
> > directive.").
>
> > I'm using "6.0 for Microsoft Windows (32-bit) (June 19, 2007)".
>
> > Is this a problem for others? Is this a bug?
>
> > --Mark

Thanks everyone. I was being quite stupid.

--Mark



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