Re: coordinate system
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- Subject: [mg84645] Re: coordinate system
- From: Narasimham <mathma18 at hotmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 01:28:39 -0500 (EST)
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On Jan 6, 4:07 pm, Narasimham <mathm... at hotmail.com> wrote:
> On Jan 4, 6:31=A0am, 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
>
> continued...
> Like, from
> Plot3D[ x Cos[y], {x, -2, 2}, {y, -3, 3} ] ; change to
> Plot3D[-y Cos[x], {y, -2, 2}, {x, -3, 3} ] ;
Oops!
from:
Plot3D[ x Cos[y], {x, -2, 2}, {y, -3, 3} ] ; swap x and y, change
sign and swap x-, y- domains.
to:
Plot3D[-y Cos[x], {x, -3, 3}, {y, -2, 2}] ;