On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 11:45:55AM +0100, Tonny Madsen wrote:
But how can one do that in inkscape? I have tried some of the effects, but not found anything that is usefull.
What about using a graph plotting program? I just tried gnuplot and it seems to be able to generates SVG output these days. Some of the demo's at:
http://gnuplot.sourceforge.net/demo/surface1.html
look similar to what you could want to do. I just tried using the following script:
set terminal svg set output "surface.svg" set samples 51, 51 set isosamples 21, 21 set yrange [ -1.00000 : 1.00000 ] noreverse nowriteback set zrange [ -1.00000 : 1.00000 ] noreverse nowriteback splot [x=-3:3] [y=-3:3] sin(x) * cos(y)
and it seemed to produce something that inkscape could read, with the surface as a seperate path that could be copied into another document. Chosing a good function and viewpoint would be "fun" with gnuplot, but it could work.
Sam