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A system for preparing publication-quality scientific figures with Mathematica
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Create the publication quality Brillouin zone graph with `SciDraw`. #2

Open hongyi-zhao opened 2 years ago

hongyi-zhao commented 2 years ago

The Bilbao Crystallographic Server provides the beautiful publication quality Brillouin zone graph here and the corresponding PostScript file.

But I want to know if I can create the publication quality Brillouin zone graph with SciDraw from scratch, similar to the one represented on Bilbao Crystallographic Server.

Regards, HZ

ahrendsen commented 3 months ago

Hi HZ,

The Brillouin zone graph you shared looks like it's a 3D construction. While it would certainly possible to build something like that in SciDraw, the main focus of SciDraw is 2D plots and level diagrams. You could likely make a 3D graphic with Mathematica's 3DGraphics[] command, but rendering a 3D image into a postscript file doesn't currently have a straightforward solution.

Karl

hongyi-zhao commented 2 months ago

Below some other related discussions:

https://community.wolfram.com/groups/-/m/t/1400227 https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/1542/exporting-graphics-to-pdf-huge-file https://reference.wolfram.com/language/howto/ImportAndExport3DGraphics.html