Changing View of Graph

Many times, you will want to change the view of a graph. To do this, you need to use the set view command. This command is fairly unwieldy. The syntax for the command is one of the following: The first argument is the angle between the viewpoint and the horizontal axis of the screen. The second is the angle between the axis perpendicular to the screen. The third number if the zoom factor. The default values are 60, 30, 1. To change back to the default view, type:

For instance, to see how changing the horizontal angle changes the graph,consider the following:

To see what happens when you change the vertical angle, consider the following:

To see an example of zooming, consider


Table of Contents - Previous - Adding Contour Lines - Next - Parametric Plots
College of Natural Sciences / University of Northern Iowa / [email protected]

Copyright � 1996 College of Natural Sciences. All Rights Reserved.
Last Modified: 10/29/96