ma...@mendelu.cz wrote: > >> I'm not sure how hard it would be to add one; it would involve figuring >> out how to clip triangles, separate a 3d plot into separate pieces, >> etc., I think. >> >> Jason >> >> > > Once I created this picture for absolute extremum: > http://user.mendelu.cz/marik/3D/absolutni.html > > I used the following steps: > 1. draw in Maple the function like 2-x^2-y^2 over rectangle > 2. draw in Maple cylindrical conus and a vertical lines (boundaries) > 3. export into Javaview, http://www.javaview.de/ > 4. use Javaview to cut the graph of the function by the vertical > surfaces along boundaries and delete or hide unwanted parts > > However, I am not able to find out if Javaview is clever enough to do > the last step in batch mode and I do not know if this is the good way > to follow. >
Well, you can define a cut plane in jmol, I think. However: 1. it doesn't look very sophisticated from the docs (you can basically cut off a percentage of the scene). 2. it's probably better to do it in Sage before we get to the backends so that it works reliably in all of the backends. Jason --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-edu" group. To post to this group, send email to sage-edu@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-edu+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-edu?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
