Re: [R] rgl: cylinder3d() with elliptical cross-section

2012-05-14 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 10/03/2012 9:44 AM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: My first reply to this went privately, by accident. I've done a little editing to it, but mainly this is for the archives. On 12-03-09 2:36 PM, Michael Friendly wrote: > For a paper dealing with generalized ellipsoids, I want to illustrate in > 3D

Re: [R] rgl: cylinder3d() with elliptical cross-section

2012-03-10 Thread Duncan Murdoch
My first reply to this went privately, by accident. I've done a little editing to it, but mainly this is for the archives. On 12-03-09 2:36 PM, Michael Friendly wrote: For a paper dealing with generalized ellipsoids, I want to illustrate in 3D an ellipsoid that is unbounded in one dimension, h

Re: [R] rgl: cylinder3d() with elliptical cross-section

2012-03-09 Thread Ben Bolker
Michael Friendly yorku.ca> writes: > > For a paper dealing with generalized ellipsoids, I want to illustrate in > 3D an ellipsoid that is unbounded > in one dimension, having the shape of an infinite cylinder along, say, > z, but whose cross-section in (x,y) > is an ellipse, say, given by the

[R] rgl: cylinder3d() with elliptical cross-section

2012-03-09 Thread Michael Friendly
For a paper dealing with generalized ellipsoids, I want to illustrate in 3D an ellipsoid that is unbounded in one dimension, having the shape of an infinite cylinder along, say, z, but whose cross-section in (x,y) is an ellipse, say, given by the 2x2 matrix cov(x,y). I've looked at rgl:::cylind