Re: coordinate system
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- Subject: [mg84570] Re: coordinate system
- From: dflatin at rcn.com
- Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2008 05:39:31 -0500 (EST)
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On Jan 3, 8:31=A0pm, Jan Schmedes <ja... at crustal.ucsb.edu> wrote:
> Dear group,
>
> i have a probably rather simple problem regarding plotting. I want to =A0
> create plots in a right handed coordinate system that has z positive =A0
> down, that is X (positive North), Y (positive East), and Z (positive =A0
> down). How can i achieve that when creating a 3D plot? I played =A0
> around with AffineShape in Mathematica 5.2 and changing the Ticks in =A0
> the plot but i was wondering if there is an straight forward way of =A0
> doing that? Now i am using Mathematica 6.
>
> Thank you
>
> Jan
Does this work for you?
Plot3D[Exp[-(x^2 + y^2)], {x, -3, 3}, {y, -3, 3}, PlotRange -> All,
ViewVertical -> {0, 0, -1}, AxesLabel -> {"north", "east", "down"}]
The ViewVertical option specifies the vertical orientation. Of course
you may just want to set the ViewPoint directly.