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How do I draw an anticlepsydra in LaTeX?
This is an easy way to do it. In 2d and using a 'fake cavalier' perspective as in the OP picture.
The shadings are not necessary. I made them trying to control the transparency and the light of both ...
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Truncated Icosahedron in TikZ?
Let's start with the skeleton. Coordinates are copy from polyhedron_js.asy.
\documentclass[border=9,tikz]{standalone}
\usepackage{tikz-3dplot}
\begin{document}
\foreach\s in{2,4,...,360}{
\...
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Gauss mapping image
NOTE that: I don't know either what I am drawing. :)
Drawing 3D image in Asymptote is a difficult problem for both my knowledge and my computer (it is weak).
You can add mesh for surface. You can also ...
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How do I draw an anticlepsydra in LaTeX?
You can use 3dtools.
With phi=90, you can try
\documentclass[border=2mm]{standalone}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{3dtools,calc}% https://github.com/marmotghost/tikz-3dtools
\begin{document}
\...
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Planes tangent to a cylinder
Perhaps something like this?
I'm using TikZ 3d and isometric perspective. There are a couple of simplifications. Some points were found by trial-and-error over the sphere (if you see an angle not ...
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How do I draw an anticlepsydra in LaTeX?
A bit try with Asymptote!
Compile the following code at http://asymptote.ualberta.ca/
// settings.render=10;
import solids;
size(10cm,0);
currentprojection=orthographic(1,0,0.15);
currentlight=White;
...
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How to draw the solids to refer to cylindricals coordinates
Something to start with:
\documentclass[border=10pt]{standalone}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\pgfplotsset{compat=1.18}
\usetikzlibrary{3d, fillbetween}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}[line join=...
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What causes a rotating 3D object to get displaced unexpectedly?
\documentclass[pstricks,border=12pt]{standalone}
\usepackage{pst-solides3d}
\psset
{
object=parallelepiped,
lightsrc=viewpoint,
Decran=30,
solidmemory,
grid=false,
incolor=red,
...
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\defFunction in PStricks / pst-solides3d /
How does \defFunction work?
In the form you use it, it takes 5 mandatory arguments that specify a parameterised version of a three-dimensional function. More specifically,
\defFunction{<name>}(...
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How to draw a paraboloid?
\documentclass[border=10pt,pstricks]{standalone}
\usepackage{pst-solides3d}
\begin{document}
\psset{unit=.65,viewpoint=40 30 22 rtp2xyz,lightsrc=viewpoint}
\begin{pspicture}(-5,-4)(6,10)
\defFunction[...
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Gauss mapping image
About intersection of a plane and a sphere, you can try this code.
Note that, if a sphere has radius R; distance from the center of sphere to the plane is d,then intersection plane and the sphere is a ...
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How to change the size of a point in pst-solides3d?
I don't think there's a way to do this using the object=point key, which only takes the coordinates as arguments, but you can add points using \psPoint plus \psdots instead:
\documentclass{article}
\...
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3D effects for hollow and solid cylinder in tikz
That is an elegant question. I have just added more tags including [asymptote] to the question, because Asymptote seems to be an appropriate tool to draw 3 difficult kinds of cylinders: open hollow, ...
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