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Re: upgrading SurfaceColor directive in version 6

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  • Subject: [mg82523] Re: upgrading SurfaceColor directive in version 6
  • From: Jens-Peer Kuska <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
  • Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 05:34:33 -0400 (EDT)
  • Organization: Uni Leipzig
  • References: <ffed1s$bfk$1@smc.vnet.net>
  • Reply-to: kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de

Hi,

try

ParametricPlot3D[
  {Cos[\[Phi]]*Sin[\[Theta]], Sin[\[Phi]]*Sin[\[Theta]],
   Cos[\[Theta]]}, {\[Theta], 0, Pi}, {\[Phi], 0, Pi},
  ColorFunction -> (Directive[Hue[1/6, .3, 1],
      Specularity[Hue[1/6, 1, 1], 8]] &)
  ]

Regards
   Jens


congruentialuminaire at yahoo.com wrote:
> Hello Mathematica  UG:
> 
> I created a plot with the following V5 Graphics directive under V6:
> 
> SurfaceColor[ Hue[1/6, .3, 1], Hue[1/6, 1, 1], 8]
> 
> The command (ParametricPlot3D) complains that this is a legacy
> operation and that I should use ColorFunction.
> 
> Help in V6 says that SurfaceColor has been deprecated in favor of
> Specularity and Glow.
> 
> I looked at the help for all of these and I am not sure which
> arguments correspond, except the 3rd is the glow.
> 
> If it is easy to translate this, I would greatly appreciate any help
> and/or pointers convert this.
> 
> TIA.
> 
> Regards..Roger
> 
> 


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