[R] OT: 3d surfaces with transparency

[Ben Bolker]

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Deepayan Sarkar wrote:
> On 12/8/07, Ben Bolker <bolker at ufl.edu> wrote:
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>> Deepayan Sarkar wrote:
>>> On 12/8/07, Ben Bolker <bolker at ufl.edu> wrote:
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>>>>   I would be grateful if anyone had suggestions
>>>> about software that could (1) create 3D surface
>>>> plots, (2) handle transparency/alpha blending,
>>>> (3) generate output in some vector graphics format
>>>> that preserved the transparency.  I could also
>>>> live with a combination of two programs, one
>>>> to generate the basic figure and another to
>>>> modify the output surface to a transparent
>>>> color (but preserving vector-ness).
>>>>
>>  [snip]
>>>>   Any ideas???
>>> You could consider wireframe from lattice, but this has many caveats.
>>> For an example, see
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>>> http://dsarkar.fhcrc.org/lattice/book/figures.html?chapter=06;figure=06_18;theme=stdColor;code=right
>>>
>>> For that matter, whats wrong with persp?
>>>
>>> -Deepayan
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>>   I hadn't thought about the fact that transparency is easier
>> than it used to be (esp. with cairo device/PDF).
>>   OK, next question:  is there an easier way than the following
>> to create a 3D perspective plot with reference grids on some faces?
>> I  can pull the 3D grid code out of the rgl or scatterplot3d
>> packages and reimplement it here, I guess ...  another way to
>> hack this might (?) be to play with tick lengths?
> 
> (I had been meaning to reply, but it slipped my mind.)
> 
> I can't see an easy way to do this for persp, but it's technically
> possible (though not a one-liner) for cloud and wireframe. I can look
> into it if you think it will help.
> 
> -Deepayan

  I managed to hack this up OK in persp, I can send it/post it
if anyone is interested.

  If I find time I might try to hack persp to do the grids
internally.

  thanks ...
    Ben

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