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plotting - Ad hoc graphics primitives-like objects


Sphere is one of the three-dimensional graphics primitives available in Mathematica and can be easily used to created very useful images. For instance, in the figure below I created three images of an ellipsoidal object that is lit from a fixed direction and it is then just rotated around the z-axis.



GraphicsRow[
    Table[
        Graphics3D[
        Rotate[Scale[{GrayLevel[.7], Sphere[]}, {1, 1.5, 1}, {0, 0, 0}], 
        i Degree, {0, 0, 1}], PlotRange -> {{-2, 2}, {-2, 2}, {-2, 2}}, 
        AspectRatio -> 1, Background -> Black, Boxed -> False, 
        ViewPoint -> Front, SphericalRegion -> True, 
        Lighting -> {{"Directional", White, ImageScaled[{0, 0, 1}]}}
    ], {i, {0, 45, 90}}]]


ellipsoidalObject


Suppose that instead of using the ellipsoidal object I would like to use an object like this bump:


Plot3D[Exp[-(x^2 + y^2)], {x, -2, 2}, {y, -2, 2}]

bump


Is there a way to create a "graphics primitive" object of the bump, so as to just use it instead of Sphere in the above example?


I suppose there should be a way to extract all the polygons specifying the shape of the bump, but I couldn't find a way to do it. Any other approach is also more than welcome.



Answer



The result of Plot3D and related functions is something of the form Graphics3D[primitives, options], so to extract the graphics primitives you can simply take the first part of the plot. These can then be manipulated similar to Sphere[] in your example, e.g.


plot = Plot3D[Exp[-(x^2 + y^2)], {x, -2, 2}, {y, -2, 2}][[1]];


GraphicsRow[
 Table[Graphics3D[
   Rotate[Scale[{GrayLevel[.7], plot}, {1, 1.5, 1}, {0, 0, 0}], 
    i Degree, {0, 0, 1}], PlotRange -> {{-2, 2}, {-2, 2}, {-2, 2}}, 
   AspectRatio -> 1, Background -> Black, Boxed -> False, 
   ViewPoint -> Front, SphericalRegion -> True, 
   Lighting -> {{"Directional", White, 
      ImageScaled[{0, 0, 1}]}}], {i, {0, 45, 90}}]]


Mathematica graphics


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