Concepts:NativePrimitives

From S2PLOT

The S2PLOT native primitives extend the functionality beyond the standard primitives that are based on PGPLOT functions. They often provide more control in the way points, lines, and polygons are drawn through explicit colour index arguments.

• Coloured spheres
• Textured spheres
• Disks and annuli
• Arcs
• Text (arbitrary direction and size)
• Coloured points
• Thick points
• Lights
• Coloured lines
• Thick lines
• 3-vertex polygons (with colour and transparency)
• 4-vertex polygons
• Textured polygons
• Markers
• Latex labels
• Isosurfaces
• Volume rendering
• Dynamic billboard textures (always faces the camera)
• Dynamics billboard text (always faces the camera)

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