Re: 3d surface plot animation

The problem is that you haven't made the objects invisible before
deleting them. You have the statement "surface.visible = False", but
surface is a Mesh object, which doesn't have a visible attribute.

If you instead say "surface.model.visible = False", you make the faces
object invisible, and then "del surface" works.

Bruce Sherwood

On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 12:24 AM, Poul Riis <Poul.Riis-pIBpe43/vk1knbxzx/[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> [email protected] writes:
> To hide a Visual object just make it invisible: ball.visible = False.
> This does not delete the object from computer memory, and you can make
> it visible again later.
> If however you later re-use the name ball, for example by creating a
> new object and naming it ball, Python will be free to release the
> memory used by the object formerly named ball (assuming no other names
> currently refer to that object). If the object is visible when you
> re-use the name ball, the original object will not be deleted from
> computer memory, and it will remain visible in the window.
> After you make an object named ball invisible, you can delete it
> immediately with del ball.
> Oh, yes, that's from the manual. Nevertheless, I cannot make it work (see
> below).
> Poul Riis
> ## Demonstrates some techniques for working with "faces", and
> ## shows how to build a height field (a common feature request)
> ## with it.
> ## David Scherer July 2001
> ## Revised January 2010 by Bruce Sherwood to use faces.smooth() function
> ##   introduced with VPython 5.2
> ## Revised March 2010 by Bruce Sherwood to use faces.make_normals() and
> ## faces.make_twosided() functions introduced with VPython 5.3
> from visual import *
> from time import *
> class Model:
>    def __init__(self):
>        self.frame = frame()
>        self.model = faces(frame=self.frame, color=color.cyan)
>        self.vertices = []
>    def FacetedTriangle(self, v1, v2, v3, color=color.white):
>        """Add a triangle to the model"""
>        for v in (v1,v2,v3):
>            self.vertices.append(v)
>    def FacetedPolygon(self, *v):
>        """Appends a planar polygon of any number of vertices to the model"""
>        for t in range(len(v)-2):
>            self.FacetedTriangle( v[0], v[t+1], v[t+2] )
>    def DrawNormals(self, scale):
>        pos = self.model.pos
>        normal = self.model.normal
>        for i in range(len(pos)):
>            arrow(pos=pos[i], axis=normal[i]*scale)
> class Mesh (Model):
>    def __init__(self, xvalues, yvalues, zvalues):
>        Model.__init__(self)
>        points = zeros( xvalues.shape + (3,), float )
>        points[...,0] = xvalues
>        points[...,1] = yvalues
>        points[...,2] = zvalues
>        for i in range(zvalues.shape[0]-1):
>            for j in range(zvalues.shape[1]-1):
>                self.FacetedPolygon( points[i,j], points[i,j+1],
>                                     points[i+1,j+1], points[i+1,j] )
>
>         self.model.pos = self.vertices
>        self.model.make_normals()
>        self.model.smooth()
>        self.model.make_twosided()
> ## Graph a function of two variables (a height field)
> x = arange(-1,1,2./20)
> y = arange(-1,1,2./20)
> z = zeros( (len(x),len(y)), float )
> x,y = x[:,None]+z, y+z
> surface=Mesh( x, (sin(x*pi)+sin(y*pi))*0.2, y )
> sleep(1)
> surface.visible=False
> del surface
> surface=Mesh( x, (sin(x*pi)+sin(2*y*pi))*0.2, y )
>
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