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Re: Visible mesh edges in PDF output of 3D graphic
Posted:
Mar 15, 2013 1:46 AM
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Whoops!
height = .5;
h = x^2 + y^2 + (z - height)^2 - 1;
g = z;
I will take a look at your approach. However, I do need to keep
scalability. Otherwise I cols simply export at PNG, or TIFF.
Thanks,
David
On Mar 14, 7:13 am, Peter Pein <pet...@dordos.net> wrote:
> Am 13.03.2013 09:18, schrieb David Reiss:
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> > Consider the following plot:
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> > graphicTest=
> > ContourPlot3D[{h==0,g==0},{x,-2,2},{y,-2,2},{z,-2,2},
> > MeshFunctions->{Function[{x,y,z,f},h-g]},
> > MeshStyle->{{Thick,Black,Opacity[1]}},
> > Mesh->{{0}},
> > ContourStyle->{
> > Directive[Orange,Opacity[.5],Specularity[White,30]],
> > Directive[Purple,Opacity[.3],Specularity[Green,30]]},
> > PlotPoints->30,
> > Boxed->False,
> > (*Axes->False,*)
> > BoxRatios->Automatic,
> > PlotRange->{All,All,{-2,2}}
> > ]
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> > Then export it as a PDF and look at it in a PDF viewer (insert your
> > directory path at <<<your directory path here>>> to make this work):
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> > Export["<<<your directory path here>>>/
> > testGraph.pdf",graphicTest,"PDF"]//SystemOpen
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> > Look at the resulting PDF. You will see the lattice of the underlyin=
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> > plot mesh visible. Is there any way to get rid of this? Note that=
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> > expect to see the fasceted nature of the graphic, but the explicit
> > differently colored edges are not desired.
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> Hi David,
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> as you did not provide us with the definitions of g and h, I invented
> some toy expressions:
> {g, h} = Plus @@@
> Through[{Cos, 1 - 2 Sinc[#/2]^2 &}[Pi*{x, y, z}]];
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> The plain export to PDF results in a 110 MB file with which the
> Adobe-Reader has got hard times (it crashes on my 12GB-box). GS-View
> works and I can see the many lines.
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> If losing the scalability is acceptable,
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> Export[ToFileName[{$HomeDirectory, "Desktop"}, "test2.pdf"],
> Rasterize[graphicTest, ImageSize -> 1200], ImageResolution -> 300]
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> might help (resulting in a 633 KB PDF file). I tried an export without
> explicit rasterization via the options "AllowRasterization"->True and
> ImageResolution -> 300 in the call to Export[], but it did not look as
> nice as the result of the above line. Maybe I misunderstood the meaning
> of this option :(
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> hth,
> Peter
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