Re: Cropping a surface to a sphere
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- Subject: [mg88220] Re: [mg88172] Cropping a surface to a sphere
- From: Bob Hanlon <hanlonr at cox.net>
- Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 04:42:07 -0400 (EDT)
- Reply-to: hanlonr at cox.net
ContourPlot3D[-x^4*y^2 + x^2*y^4 + x^4*z^2 -
y^4*z^2 - x^2*z^4 + y^2*z^4 == 1,
{x, -3, 3}, {y, -3, 3}, {z, -3, 3}, Mesh -> False,
RegionFunction -> Function[{x, y, z}, x^2 + y^2 + z^2 < 9]]
Bob Hanlon
---- "Szabolcs Horv=C3=A1t" <szhorvat at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Is there a simple way to crop a surface to a sphere?
>
> For example, consider the surface
>
> ContourPlot3D[
> -x^4*y^2 + x^2*y^4 + x^4*z^2 - y^4*z^2 -
> x^2*z^4 + y^2*z^4 == 1,
> {x, -3, 3}, {y, -3, 3}, {z, -3, 3},
> Mesh -> False]
>
> It is cropped to a cube (the bounding box) by default. I would like to=
> crop it to a sphere of radius 3 (or some other region).
>
> Is there an easy way to do this? I guess that if there really isn't a
> better way, I could write a polygon cropping function, convert the
> graphic to Normal[] form, and crop/remove each polygon one by one, but I=
> was hoping for a simpler solution ... (built-in function or existing
> package).
>