MaplePrimes - answers and comments on Question, plot in 3d function of recurrence relation

spacecurve or pointplot3d

Robert Israel — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:18:16 Z

You can use either spacecurve or pointplot3d in the plots package to plot a list of points, optionally joining them with line segments. For example:

V[0]:= -1:
V[1]:= -2:
for i from 2 to 100 do V[i]:= 0.3*V[i-1] - V[i-2] end do:
plots[pointplot3d]([seq([V[i],V[i-1],i],i=1..100)],
   colour=black,axes=box);

symbolsize

PatrickT — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 21:35:00 Z

Robert's pointplot3d looks much better in Standard than in Classic, so if you're going to use Classic, you may perhaps wish to have some control over the size of the printed symbols this way:

plots[pointplot3d]([seq([V[i],V[i-1],i],i=1..100)], 
colour=black,axes=box,symbol=diamond,symbolsize=10);

Details may be found here ?plot3d,options