Add planes
planes3d adds mathematical planes
to a scene. Their intersection with the current
bounding box will be drawn. clipplanes3d
adds clipping planes to a scene.
planes3d(a, b = NULL, c = NULL, d = 0, ...) clipplanes3d(a, b = NULL, c = NULL, d = 0)
a, b, c |
Coordinates of the normal to the plane. Any reasonable way of defining the
coordinates is acceptable. See the function |
d |
Coordinates of the "offset". See the details. |
... |
Material properties. See |
planes3d draws planes using the parametrization
a x + b y + c z + d = 0. Multiple planes may be specified
by giving multiple values for any of a, b, c, d; the other
values will be recycled as necessary.
clipplanes3d defines clipping planes
using the same equations. Clipping planes suppress the display of
other objects (or parts of them) in the subscene, based on their coordinates.
Points (or parts of lines or surfaces) where the coordinates x, y, z
satisfy a x + b y + c z + d < 0 will be suppressed.
The number of clipping planes
supported by the OpenGL driver is implementation dependent; use
par3d("maxClipPlanes") to find the limit.
A shape ID of the planes or clipplanes object is returned invisibly.
abclines3d for mathematical lines.
triangles3d or the corresponding
functions for quadrilaterals may be used to draw sections of planes that
do not adapt to the bounding box.
The example in subscene3d shows how to combine clipping planes to suppress complex shapes.
# Show regression plane with z as dependent variable open3d() x <- rnorm(100) y <- rnorm(100) z <- 0.2*x - 0.3*y + rnorm(100, sd = 0.3) fit <- lm(z ~ x + y) plot3d(x, y, z, type = "s", col = "red", size = 1) coefs <- coef(fit) a <- coefs["x"] b <- coefs["y"] c <- -1 d <- coefs["(Intercept)"] planes3d(a, b, c, d, alpha = 0.5) open3d() ids <- plot3d(x, y, z, type = "s", col = "red", size = 1, forceClipregion = TRUE) oldid <- useSubscene3d(ids["clipregion"]) clipplanes3d(a, b, c, d) useSubscene3d(oldid)
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