Rotating 3-D graphs



Andrej Vodopivec wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 10:12 AM, 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.
>>     
>
> If you wish to have mouse support in gnuplot you will need to upgrade
> maxima at least to version 5.12.
>
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> Andrej
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I use maxima 5.14.0 in fedora core 6 and I don't get mouse support with 
plot3d.  However, with draw3d, the mouse works quite well, rotation with 
left mouse, and zooming with middle mouse.

Try e.g.  

(%i7) load(draw);
(%o7)         /usr/local/share/maxima/5.14.0/share/draw/draw.lisp
(%i8) draw3d(explicit(x^2 - y^2, x,-2,2,y,-2,2));
(%o8)                          [gr3d(explicit)]

 
Look at the maxima manual for draw

-sen