rgl package: color of the axes

On 8/23/2006 4:13 PM, Gaspard Lequeux wrote:

When plotting triangles with rgl.triangles and setting the axes afterwards
with decorate3d(aspect=TRUE), the axes get the color used for the last
triangle plotted.

Example:

rgl.triangles(c(1,2,3),c(1,2,5),c(1,3,2),col="#55FF55")
decorate3d(aspect=TRUE)

Using

decorate3d(aspect=TRUE,col="#000000")

or

decorate3d(aspect=TRUE,color="#000000")

does not help, the axes still have the last color used for plotting an
object.

You should use triangles3d if you don't want the material changes to
carry over to the next call.  Generally speaking it's hard to get things
right when you mix the rgl.* calls (which assume changes are persistent)
with the *3d calls (which assume they're not).

In the help page of decorate3d on can find the following line:

        ...: additional parameters which will be passed to 'par3d',
             'material3d' or 'decorate3d'.

So the 'color' argument should have an effect.

Yes, that's a bug, which has been fixed (but not released yet).  There
should be a release pretty soon now.  Daniel Adler and I are hoping to
have a version 1.0 in the next couple of months; I expect one or two
more 0.x releases before that.