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Intersecting planes not shown correctly with TikZ

I made a plot in MATLAB of a deformed and an undeformed model. I converted the figure to TikZ using matlab2tikz and added it to my .tex file. I then noticed that the two configurations, which are ...
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Contour partially hidden by a surface in pgfplots

Thank's to SE (and particularly these two questions: Draw a bivariate normal distribution in TikZ and How to fix a contour plot at top of a 3D box), I've been able to draw what I was looking for with ...
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Tikz: intersection of line and plane

I am struggling with drawing a plane and a intersecting line. I would like to have the line C,P',P in the image, disappear if it is "behind" the plane and have it reappear if it is not behind the ...
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How do I replace an XYZ coordinate system on an already available plot?

I have an eps file looking like this: I have no access to the original dataset, so replotting it is not an option. I would like to replace the ugly 80s style coordinate system (Both the captions ...
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Isometric Elevation Grid in TikZ

Is there a (simplistic?) way to draw a 3D elevation grid like this in Tikz or PGFPlots? The blue line should be able to move up or down and, eventually, submerge the interior blocks. I've looked ...
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2D surface on a 3D surface plot external data in a file

I am drawing a 3D surface from external data. Here they are: 0 0 -0.64 1 0 -0.5 2 0 -0.4 3 0 -0.31 4 0 -0.23 5 0 -0.2 6 0 -0.24 7 0 -0.32 8 0 -0.42 9 0 -0.59 10 0 -0.76 0 1 -0.54 1 1 -0.4 2 1 -0.27 ...
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How to draw the outlines of a patch in pgfplots?

In pgfplots the patch plot library allows to basically draw 3D bezier planes easily. This is very helpful if the exact mathematical form of a plane is not known or not important. What I have not ...
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3D line plot in pgfplots

I have the following problem with pgfplots and \addplot3. I have a graph in [0,1]x[0,1] that should display a mesh plot and a line plot that traces a particular line across the mesh. The line plot is ...
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Naming 3D axes in pgfplots

I want to label the axes in a 3D plot with pgfplots. Using the anchors .right of origin and .above origin, I can label the axes as "x" and "y" in 2D with ease. In 3D, the labels must be tweaked to ...
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Axis label placement in 3d plot far out but why?

I want to plot a dataset in a 3D pgfplots graph. It looks like a good start but somehow the label placement is far out. Boiling it down to a MWE did not give me any hints how to get the labels back in ...
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Creating Bezier surfaces using procedural graphics

Are there any package for LaTeX that can create Bezier surfaces? I mean a actual existing function that takes matrices as arguments and generates the surface, not a function written by myself.
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pgfplots: color a (3D) surf using arbitrary RGB colors

I would like to color a surf using arbitrary RGB colors (unlike this question, which just colors the surf using the colormap). In this minimal example (which plots the x+y function), I would like the ...
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2D colors above 3D surface plot

I would like to draw a 2D, colored plot of a function above its surface plot. I tried copying the surface plot and setting z filter/.code={\def\pgfmathresult{1.4}}, but then everything is the same ...
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How can I create a 3D Manhattan bar chart? [duplicate]

I have some data which I would like to visualize. This data are 3-tuples of integers: (Threads,Sum,# of occurences) (1,2,20) (1,7,18) (1,100,25) (2,7,15) (4,103,24) I would like to visualize this ...
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PGFPLOTS 3d box line for Z axis not being drawn

The vertical 3d box line for Z axis is not being drawn. If I make the grid lines dashed, the line is drawn, but also appears dashed, as the grid lines. To me, it looks that the line is in fact drawn, ...
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matlab2tikz for surf plots: reducing data?

I was really happy to see that matlab2tikz also supports surf plots. Unfortunately, it produces too much data, so I run into the well-known memory problem. I tried compiling with lualatex instead of ...
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pgfplots: labels and width issues in non-boxed 3d plot with oblique projection

Update april 2013 The bug has been fixed with pgfplots version 1.8 (requires \pgfplotsset{compat=1.8}). When I try to add the axes labels to this code, I get a division by zero error. I think the ...
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Changing view angle distorts sphere with pgfplots

I am trying to learn how to use pgfplots by plotting simple things, like a two-dimensional sphere. However, I find it quite surprising that depending on the view angle, the result sometimes does not ...
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Intersection of 2 surface plots in pgfplots

My question is pretty much a duplicate of this one. I'd like pgfplots to display the intersection between tho surface plots properly. Unfortunately, my function is quite different from the one in the ...
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How to change label and ticks of a pgfplots colorbar?

I have a 3d plot with colored surface and a colorbar made with pgfplots. My probably related questions are: How can I set the label of the colorbar? What are the equivalents of zticks (positions of ...
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3D surface plots in TikZ

I need to plot a surface plot using TikZ. I have the (x,y) coordinate and the corresponding function value in a table form. I have not done 3D plots before in TikZ and hence I would appreciate any ...
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How can I draw a vector field (quiver plot) on a surface in 3D?

I'd like to draw a vector field on a torus using PGFPlots and/or TikZ. I managed to do it using ePiX, based on the file decorate.xp from the example gallery, but then I have to do z-sorting by hand, ...
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TikZ, 3d library and circle fading

I'm using the 3d library to put a circle on the z=0 plane, and other things. I'd like to fade this circle radially, but the result isn't as I would expect because the fading is not proportional to the ...
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Is there any way to remove mesh lines completely in a pgfplots faceted 3d plot?

I can not seem to find the way to remove the lines in the surface mesh in a 3d faceted plot. I need a solution that does not use the "shader=interp" (i.e. gradient filling) so that the faces are ...
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Is lualatex supposed to be a superset of pdflatex? (regarding production of PDF)

In other words, is it a bug if lualatex cannot compile a document that pdflatex can? Based on the answers to this question How to expand TeX's "main memory size"? (pgfplots memory ...
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Surface plot with coordinates in pgf

Is it possible to draw a three dimensional surface using coordinates instead of formulas? Sadly I found nothing in the pgfplots-manual according to this problem. MWE so far: \documentclass{article} ...
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Plotting several 2d functions in a 3d graph

I am trying to reproduce a similar figure to the following one. My first guess was to use pgfplots but I didn't find any example that I could use as a starting point. At the moment I am unsure if ...
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How to plot three-dimensional polar functions with pgfplots

I would like to plot the following functions with pgfplots: I know how they are defined: \sqrt{r}\sin\frac{\theta}{2}, \sqrt{r}\sin\frac{\theta}{2}\sin\theta, \sqrt{r}\cos\frac{\theta}{2}, ...
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3D Arrow Tips for TikZ/pgfplots

I really like the arrow tips shown in How to get rid of the viewer's (incorrect) axes in an Asymptote 3D graphics and am wondering how to produce this in pgfplots: I admit I have not tried ...
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How to remove coordinates in a 3d plot using pgfplots

I would like to know how to remove coordinates in an addplot3 surf plot. Here is a simplified example: \begin{tikzpicture} \begin{axis}[clip=false,view={45}{45},grid=major] ...
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pgfplots: three dimensional plot with one variable as exponent?

In want to draw this function with pgfplots: f(x,y) = 1-(1-(1+y)^(-x))/x*y. When compiling, I get some error message about z buffer reoderings. I already played around a bit and ist seems to me the ...
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3D plots with pgfplots

I am trying to plot 3D plots with pgfplots. I have started with an example from documentation: \documentclass{article} \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} \usepackage{tikz} \usepackage{pgfplots} % ...
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pgfplots: two labelings for a single 3d plot

I am trying to add a second labeling to my 3d plot, but I can not figure out how to do it correctly. The idea is to add a second axis without any grid, ticks, lines and nothing but labels and overlay ...
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Some simple surface drawing using addplot3 for pgfplots won't compile

I am having trouble compiling even some very simple surface drawing using pgfplot and addplot3, for example please see the attached code, I keep getting error saying \begin{axis} on input line 8 ended ...
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Cut-off cone in TikZ

How would I draw the following cone using TikZ? I have no clue how to incorporate the "cut-off". I want to draw a picture of the cone given by the points (y, t) for y in R^d and t in (0, infty) such ...