Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0212051331170.5913-100000@bolker.zoo.ufl.edu>
Date: 2002-12-05T20:06:03Z
From: Ben Bolker
Subject: How to plot a 3D ellipsoid in R?
In-Reply-To: <015d01c29c87$b8f9eca0$8bd75ba5@IE.TAMU.EDU>
R is not particularly good for this task. Search the mailing list
archives for solutions ... Duncan Murdoch has a package called rgl that
works under Windows with OpenGL, but as far as I can tell you'd still have
to write your own function to put together the primitives for an ellipsoid
(http://www.stats.uwo.ca/faculty/murdoch/software/). Another choice is my
LG3d package, in the bbmisc bundle at http://www.zoo.ufl.edu/bolker/R/src
or /windows, which constructs an HTML file which can be dynamically
rotated with a Java applet from elsewhere.
Mathematica, Maple, Matlab ( ... I don't know what Octave's capabilities
are in this regard ...) are other possibilities.
Ben
On Thu, 5 Dec 2002, Feng Zhang wrote:
> Hey, all
>
> I am going to plot several 3-dimensional ellipsoids
> in R.
> For example, A is such a ellipsoid with
> mean u=[1 1 1]', covariance matrix C=[1 0 .5;0 1 .6;.5 .6 1];
> So how can I plot such object in 3D space?
>
> Is there some function to achieve this?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Fred
>
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