On 2/20/2009 1:55 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
On 2/20/2009 1:46 PM, kapo coulibaly wrote:
Ideally I would want it to look like a rubik cube with each little cube
color coded based on the fourth column (data column). Your suggestion might
work if I could color code based on data in the fourth column.
Thanks

There's no primitive "cube" symbol in rgl, but you can get an array of colour-coded spheres:

x <- rep(1:3, each=9)
y <- rep(rep(1:3, each=3), 3)
z <- rep(1:3, 9)
colours <- terrain.colors(27)
plot3d(x,y,z,col=colours, type="s", size=10)

If you really want cubes, you can put them together (start with cube3d() to get one, and build on that), but it's a lot of work.

But it's Friday, so fun things like that are worth doing. Here's some code to draw a bunch of cubes with a variety of colours. Elaborate on it if you like.

Duncan Murdoch

cubes3d <- function(x,y,z,col="red",size=0.9,plot=TRUE) {

    xyz <- xyz.coords(x, y, z, recycle = TRUE)
    x <- xyz$x
    y <- xyz$y
    z <- xyz$z

    col <- rep(col, len=length(x))
    size <- rep(size/2, len=length(x))

result <- list(vb=matrix(0, 4, 0), ib=matrix(1L, 4, 0), primitivetype="quad",
                   material=list(color=NULL, normals=NULL))
    class(result) <- "qmesh3d"

    for (i in seq_along(x)) {
cube <- translate3d(scale3d(cube3d(), size[i], size[i], size[i]), x[i], y[i], z[i])
       offset <- ncol(result$vb)
       result$vb <- cbind(result$vb, cube$vb)
       result$ib <- cbind(result$ib, cube$ib + offset)
result$material$color <- c(result$material$color, rep(col[i], 4*ncol(cube$ib)))
    }
    if (plot)
       shade3d(result)
    invisible(result)
}

x <- rep(1:5, each=25)
y <- rep(rep(1:5, each=5), 5)
z <- rep(1:5, 25)
cubes3d(x,y,z,col=terrain.colors(125))

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