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Re: impossible?: overlaying lineplots on surface-plots [message #23370]

Sun, 14 January 2001 18:04

davidf
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Harald von der Osten-Woldenburg (hvdosten@lb.netic.de) writes:

> thanks again for your answer. Following your suggestions I will receive
> the plot with several lines in a layer with constant Z, if I understand
> it correct. I would like to make quite strange things: I would like to
> force the lines (where only [x,y] and no z's are available) following
> the topography of the corresponding surface plot. Is it possible to
> work somehow with the T3D matrix, something like: adopting the z-value
> in this matrix stored at the location [x,y], so that the lines are
> plotted on the surface of the surface-plot?

Yes, exactly. But you will have to raise the line
_slightly_ above the surface in order to see it properly.

Cheers,

David

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		Re: impossible?: overlaying lineplots on surface-plots By: davidf on Sun, 14 January 2001 18:04
		Re: impossible?: overlaying lineplots on surface-plots By: Harald von der Osten-[1] on Sun, 14 January 2001 16:43
		Re: impossible?: overlaying lineplots on surface-plots By: davidf on Sun, 14 January 2001 08:45

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