Re: ListContourPlot3D bug?
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- Subject: [mg102333] Re: [mg102285] ListContourPlot3D bug?
- From: Patrick Scheibe <pscheibe at trm.uni-leipzig.de>
- Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2009 06:28:54 -0400 (EDT)
- References: <200908040827.EAA26802@smc.vnet.net>
Hi,
No, I think you just recognized the *feature* of table.
Does
Table[{x, y}, {x, 0, 5}, {y, 0, 5}]
really give what you expect?
Cheers
Patrick
On Tue, 2009-08-04 at 04:27 -0400, markus wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I think I've found a bug in the ListContourPlot3D function (Mathematica 7.01):
> the following command should give a cylinder along the z-axis:
>
> ListContourPlot3D[
> Table[x^2 + y^2, {x, -1, 1, 0.1}, {y, -1, 1, 0.1}, {z, -1, 1, 0.1}],
> Contours -> {0.1}, Mesh -> None, AxesLabel -> {x, y, z}]
>
> However, the cylinder is aligned along the x-axis, which is not
> correct.
>
> The command
>
> ContourPlot3D[x^2 + y^2, {x, -1, 1}, {y, -1, 1}, {z, -1, 1},
> Contours -> {0.1}, Mesh -> None, AxesLabel -> {x, y, z}]
>
> gives the correct output.
> Of course, for a single plot like above, the solution would be just to
> exchange the axes label. But this becomes awkward when you, for
> example, want to combine multiple plots (via Show).
>
> -Markus
>
- References:
- ListContourPlot3D bug?
- From: markus <markusg.phys@googlemail.com>
- ListContourPlot3D bug?