Re: Tube plot function in Mathematica???
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- Subject: [mg108591] Re: Tube plot function in Mathematica???
- From: "Sjoerd C. de Vries" <sjoerd.c.devries at gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 05:02:49 -0500 (EST)
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Well you probably have not been looking in the documentation for long
as typing the word 'tube' already provides you with the answer.
Something like
Graphics3D[
Tube[Table[{Sin[3 t], Sin[t] + 2 Sin[2 t], Cos[t] - 2 Cos[2 t]}, {t,
0, 2 \[Pi], \[Pi]/40}], 0.1]]
should work for you (at least, if you have version 7). Otherwise you
have to resort to ParametricPlot3D and have a parametric description
of the surface of your object available.
Cheers -- Sjoerd
On Mar 23, 12:52 pm, NeuroPulse <cosmicvoya... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> New to Mathematica. Can't seem to find a way to plot a line as a tube
> like this:
>
> http://facstaff.unca.edu/mcmcclur/java/LiveMathematica/trefoil.html
>
> Seems such an obvious function to have built in. Is there one?
>
> If not, can someone point me to one I can use in Mathematica?
>
> Thanks