On 05/03/2008, Joost Witteveen <joosteto at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?
>
Thank you. With the [gnuplot_preamble, "set pm3d"] parameter set, I
see a gridded sheet instead of just the grid, which helps a lot.
However, either with or without, I cannot rotate with the arrow keys.
I tried combining with the Shift, Ctrl, and Alt keys, but that did not
help.
Dotan Cohen
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