[NTG-context] Re: [metapost] shading in meta[post/play] PDF

2005-01-17 Thread Laurence Finston
In metapost, perfect spheres can be drawn, like on http://www.gnu.org/software/3dldf/cdsmpls.html. But how can I add colour? You could use the intersection points of the circles as the corners of rectangles and fill the latter. The more circles you use, the better the results will be. The

[NTG-context] Re: [metapost] shading in meta[post/play] PDF

2005-01-17 Thread Laurence Finston
Laurence Finston wrote: If you mean my spheres, that's an artefact of the PNG graphics. Actually, I think it may be because of the high magnification I used in order to get the glyphs to be a reasonable size when viewed using a browser. It would probably work better to make the

[NTG-context] Re: [metapost] shading in meta[post/play] PDF

2005-01-17 Thread Laurence Finston
Mojca Miklavec wrote: There's a wonderful tutorial on drawing 3D graphics in PostScript on http://www.math.ubc.ca/~cass/graphics/manual/, specifically http://www.math.ubc.ca/~cass/graphics/manual/code/doughnut.eps as an example. Thanks for the reference, it looks very interesting. In