On 05/03/2008, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm just getting my feet wet with Maxima. How can one rotate and zoom
> a 3-D graph created with Maxima? I'm on Ubuntu 7.04 if it matters,
> with Maxima 5.10.0.
>
> Additionally, the 3-D graphs seem to be of a transparent grid, which
> is rather difficult to see. How can that be turned into a sheet,
> coloured as per the height (z-axis value) of the x,y function?
On my ubuntu (7.10, maxima 5.12 I think), maxima draws using gnuplot,
and when draw surfaces with gnuplot (plot3d in maxima, splot in
gnuplot), I can rotate them using the cursor keys (up/down,
left/right) or the mouse.
The surface with colors I get using (in maxima):
plot3d(sin(x)*sin(y),[x,0,6],[y,0,6], [gnuplot_preamble, "set pm3d"]);
Is this what you're looking for?