如何绘制一种优美曲面,并给出它的参数方程

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How to plot a certain surface? What is its parametric equation?

up vote 14 down vote favorite 11	The surface show below is very beautiful; however, I don't know its function either as an implicit function or in parametric form. Anyone have an idea about it and how to draw it with Mathematica? plotting  parametric-equations share edit close delete flag edited Nov 24 '13 at 15:20 m_goldberg 12.7k 4 16 53 asked  Nov 24 '13 at 9:02 LCFactorization 339 7
	2 up voted One way might be to browse on-line the Mathematica GUIDE book for graphics by Trott at google booksbooks.google.com/… If anyone done something like the above, it will be in that book. Many more amazing plots there. –   Nasser  Nov 24 '13 at 9:15 5   Do you have any affiliation with this? translate.google.com/… –   belisarius  Nov 24 '13 at 16:45 Can you please give an answer to @belisarius. You have had 4 days to respond and you are back here again today. –   Mike Honeychurch  Nov 28 '13 at 1:07 @belisarius I have no access to this due to the network being blocked –   LCFactorization  Nov 28 '13 at 1:48    Strange ... at least @MikeHoneychurch, four others and me aren't suffering any blocking. Someone is playing dirty with your network access. –   belisarius  Nov 28 '13 at 1:51    add / show 11 more comments
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Consider this: ParametricPlot3D[ RotationTransform[a, {0, 1, 0}][{0, 0, Sin[3 a] + 5/4}], {a, 0, 2 Pi}, Evaluated -> True] Now rotate this around a circle, while rotating it at the same time around its' origin: ParametricPlot3D[ RotationTransform[b, {0, 0, 1}][{6, 0, 0} + RotationTransform[a + 3 b, {0, 1, 0}][{0, 0, Sin[3 a] + 5/4}]], {a, 0, 2 Pi}, {b, 0, 2 Pi}, PlotPoints -> 40, Evaluated -> True] EDIT: A color function, omitting surface mesh, fixing direction of rotation and adding a hint of transparency, like the original: ParametricPlot3D[ RotationTransform[b, {0, 0, 1}][{6, 0, 0} + RotationTransform[a - 3 b + Pi, {0, 1, 0}][{0, 0, Sin[3 a] + 5/4}]], {a, 0, 2 Pi}, {b, 0, 2 Pi}, PlotPoints -> 40, ColorFunction -> (RGBColor[#, 0, 1 - #, 4/5] &[1/2 + {1, -1}.{#1, #2}/2] &), Mesh -> False, Evaluated -> True] This might be slightly more intuitive way to write ColorFunction using Blend and Opacity in PlotStyle: ParametricPlot3D[ RotationTransform[b, {0, 0, 1}][{6, 0, 0} + RotationTransform[a - 3 b + Pi, {0, 1, 0}][{0, 0, Sin[3 a] + 5/4}]], {a, 0, 2 Pi}, {b, 0, 2 Pi}, PlotPoints -> 40, PlotStyle -> Opacity[4/5], ColorFunction -> (Blend[{Red, Blue}, 1/2 + {1, -1}.{#1, #2}/2] &), Mesh -> False, Evaluated -> True] share edit flag edited Nov 25 '13 at 6:27 answered  Nov 24 '13 at 9:24 kirma 1,511 5 15

+1 very neat! ColorFunction would be a nice addition...:) –   cormullion  Nov 24 '13 at 9:48 2   (+1 i) Thank you! :) –   cormullion  Nov 24 '13 at 10:14 2   Very nice use of RotationTransform –   Simon Woods  Nov 24 '13 at 13:11 3   @cormullion, I love the imaginary upvote. +Sqrt[2I] :-) –   Simon Woods  Nov 24 '13 at 13:12 1   @SimonWoods Now we just need to figure out how to Abs[] them for a rep boost :D –   rm -rf♦  Nov 24 '13 at 15:07   add / show 6 more comments

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I'm adding this answer to put on record an answer to the second part the question, "what is the parametric equation?". The parametric equation is implicit in Kirma's RotationTransform expression. To extract it, one need simply write something like Clear[a, b] quoit[a_, b_] := Evaluate @ RotationTransform[b, {0, 0, 1}][{6, 0, 0} + RotationTransform[a - 3 b + Pi, {0, 1, 0}][{0, 0, Sin[3 a] + 5/4}]] The function defined by the above expression, looks like this Definition @ quoit quoit[a_, b_] := { Cos[b] (6 - (5/4 + Sin[3 a]) Sin[a - 3 b]), (6 - (5/4 + Sin[3 a]) Sin[a - 3 b]) Sin[b], -Cos[a - 3 b] (5/4 + Sin[3 a]) } share edit flag edited Nov 25 '13 at 1:16 answered  Nov 24 '13 at 15:11 m_goldberg 12.7k 4 16 53

thank you very much ! very useful –   LCFactorization  Nov 24 '13 at 15:47    Indeed; maybe I left this part a bit too much implied. –   kirma  Nov 24 '13 at 17:23 2 up voted Also the order of wrapping rotation matrix is critical. When the foil rotates around the circle (outmost transform function), the Z axis is fixed. While it spins about its center, the attached Z axis changes direction. Thats why the transform with {0,1,0} is inside the first transform. –   Shenghui  Nov 25 '13 at 2:16   add comment