R: Utility functions for 3-D plots

G_utilities.3d {lattice} | R Documentation

## Utility functions for 3-D plots

### Description

These are (related to) the default panel functions for `cloud` and `wireframe`.

### Usage

    ltransform3dMatrix(screen, R.mat)
    ltransform3dto3d(x, R.mat, dist)

### Arguments

`x` | `x` can be a numeric matrix with 3 rows for `ltransform3dto3d`
`screen` | list, as described in `panel.cloud`
`R.mat` | 4x4 transformation matrix in homogeneous coordinates
`dist` | controls transformation to account for perspective viewing

### Details

`ltransform3dMatrix` and `ltransform3dto3d` are utility functions to help in computation of projections. These functions are used inside the panel functions for `cloud` and `wireframe`. They may be useful in user-defined panel functions as well.

The first function takes a list of the form of the `screen` argument in `cloud` and `wireframe` and a `R.mat`, a 4x4 transformation matrix in homogeneous coordinates, to return a new 4x4 transformation matrix that is the result of applying `R.mat` followed by the rotations in `screen`. The second function applies a 4x4 transformation matrix in homogeneous coordinates to a 3xn matrix representing points in 3-D space, and optionally does some perspective computations. (There has been no testing with non-trivial transformation matrices, and my knowledge of the homogeneous coordinate system is very limited, so there may be bugs here.)

### Author(s)

Deepayan Sarkar Deepayan.Sarkar@R-project.org

### See Also

`cloud`, `panel.cloud`

[Package lattice version 0.20-6 Index]