Thanks you very much for your reply

You're right, size affects the center too.
Not very intuituive but now, I know it.

I think this behaviour is quite surprising.
For example, with sphere, size doesn't affect center ....



On 29 jan, 20:04, Francois Maltey <fmal...@nerim.fr> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> > I was making some tries with 3D.
> > I don't succeed to make cube correctly:
> > Here is my code:
>
> > c=cube((0,0,0),size=2,opacity=0.1,color='red')
> > c+=point((2/3,2/3,0),color='green',size=10)
> > c+=cube(center=(2/3,2/3,0),size=1/3,opacity=0.8)
> > show(c)
>
> > I draw a point with coord (2/3,2/3,0)
> > Then I draw a cube centered on this point with size 1/3
>
> > When I display with JMol, the point is outside the cube...
>
> > Is it a bug ? Perhaps I've missed something with the instruction
> > cube()
>
> It seems that sage multiplies by size all the coordinates of the cube,
> even the center, not only the length.
>
> Try size=1, size=10 and size=0.1. The center of the cube changes.
>
> F.

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