Message-ID: <48DA4AB8.9010503@yorku.ca>
Date: 2008-09-24T14:12:08Z
From: Michael Friendly
Subject: rgl: ellipse3d with axes
In-Reply-To: <48DA4752.70809@stats.uwo.ca>
Duncan Murdoch wrote:
>
> The normals component contains the surface normals. It is used to
> help in rendering the surface, but isn't much use for your purposes.
> Unfortunately, I'm not familiar enough with the internals of princomp
> to tell you how to get the axes you want.
>
> Duncan Murdoch
OK, then let me repharase it. The axes of the unit sphere are like
axes <- matrix(
c(0, 0, -1, 0, 0, 1,
0, -1, 0, 0, 1, 0,
-1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0), 6, 3, byrow=TRUE)
taken in pairs. I'd like to transform these coordinates the same was as
in ellipse3d() and add them to the plot.
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