Questions tagged [graphics3d]
For questions specific to the Graphics3D command and related 3D graphics functionality.
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How do I draw a pair of buttocks?
I'm trying to develop a function which 3D plot would have a buttocks like shape.
Several days of searching the web and a dozen my of own attempts to solve the issue have brought nothing but two ...
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Mathematica Minecraft
Some time ago I asked myself: with all these great graphics and interactive capabilities of Mathematica, what kinds of 3D games can be implemented in it? And the answer which came to mind is ...
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Extract values for ViewMatrix from a Graphics3D
Under More Information in the help page of ViewMatrix the following entry can be found
With the setting ViewMatrix->Automatic...
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How to make a 3D globe?
There are many ways to create a 3D Earth that is rotatable (see here, here, related here), but most of them have some drawbacks. These issues mainly stem from either ...
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An efficient circular arc primitive for Graphics3D
As many people have noted, the 2D graphics primitive Circle doesn't work in a Graphics3D environment (even in v10.0-v10.4, where ...
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Sketch-type graphics with transparency and dashed hidden lines?
I'd like to create transparent graphs like the following from P1095, Calculus 6th Ed, by James Stewart. Can Mathematica accomplish this? By "transparent," I mean the ability to see the interior, ...
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Extract current viewing parameters from a 3D view?
Is there a way to find out the current viewing parameters of a 3D view? What often happens is that I create a view, for example:
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How to make this beautiful animation
How to make an animation of following gif in Mathematica?
Edit: The animation shown above was created by Charlie Deck in processing.
And how to make 3D analog?
I tried first few steps
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Create a torus with a hexagonal mesh for 3D-printing
I am new to Mathematica, and I'm looking for a way to create patterns on the surface of 3D objects. One thing I have not been able to do is to create a hexagonal mesh on a torus. What I would like to ...
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Cutting bagels into linked halves
I recently came across this video: Mathematically correct breakfast, which shows how a bagel can be neatly sliced into two identical linked halves.
I'd like to try this with Mathematica. Here's a ...
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Implementing a first person view of 3D objects in a scene
I've created the following scene with a Chinese-style building surrounded by trees, and a horse and a rabbit grazing on the grass in Mathematica (don't ask me why there's a bust of Beethoven in there.....
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Mathematica and POV-Ray workflow (Q&A)
A couple of years ago, Alexey Popkov asked this question: Which ray tracing software is compatible with Graphics3D? It is my opinion, for various reasons, that out of the many ray tracing programs ...
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Möbius transformations revealed
Möbius Transformations Revealed is a short video that vividly illustrates the simplicity of Möbius transformations when viewed as rigid motions of the Riemann sphere. It was one of the winners in the ...
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How to build a bvh (a motion capture file format) player in Mathematica?
How to build a bvh player that can be used to visualize human motions in Mathematica? Any
idea or sample code would be appreciated.
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Random polyhedra walk
I would like to recreate ssch's random polyhedra random walk, which he posted in the chat. For convenience here it is again:
This is my best attempt so far:
You can download the notebook with the code ...