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How to | Customize My Graphics
Mathematica allows you to customize your 2D and 3D graphics through a variety of options.
Without any options set, Plot uses a variety of default option values for color, axes style, and so on:
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Add a plot label:
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Style the plot label:
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Style the curve:
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Style the axes:
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Style the labels:
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Create a filled plot:
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Draw grid lines:
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Specify manual ticks on the axes:
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Add points under or over the plot:
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Add several styled graphics primitives to the plot:
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The default graphics produced by Plot3D use a variety of default option values:
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Control the intersection point of the axes:
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Omit mesh:
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Control the density of the mesh drawn on the surface:
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Plot several surfaces together:
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Control the regions over which the surfaces are plotted:
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Specify lighting simulation to use for coloring the surfaces:
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Control the ratio of the box dimensions and add other styles:
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Get a list of all the options that can be used to customize the plots you produce with Plot and Plot3D:
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