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matthewwardrop / latex-blochsphere

A LaTeX package which allows for simple drawing of 3D projections of Bloch spheres.
LaTeX Project Public License v1.3c
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Three dimensional appearance #2

Open Aypac opened 8 years ago

Aypac commented 8 years ago

First off: thank you a lot for this package!

I noticed that the labels and vectors get drawn over the Bloch sphere. This somewhat destroys the three dimensional effect of the drawing. Maybe changing the order of rendering could improve this issue?

Bloch sphere with labels and vector

matthewwardrop commented 8 years ago

@Aypac : Yeah... This is a limiting feature of drawing pseudo-3D diagrams. Since everything is actually 2D, there are only so many tricks that one can do. Regarding labelling, I tended to simply omit labels that were not on the "visible" surface of the sphere. The vectors are supposed to get brighter as they reach the surface to indicate less "immersion" in the emulated axis; but yes, the effect could do with some tweaking. If you have suggestions/solutions. patches are welcome :).