[pstricks] drawing arrows

Zbigniew Nitecki zbigniew.nitecki at tufts.edu
Wed Jan 7 21:02:23 CET 2009


I am not sure what is wrong with the following code;  I am drawing the  
surface z=xy over the square [0,1]\times[0,1] (this works fine, if the  
multido is commented out) and then to draw
unit normal vectors to this surface.
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%!TEX TS-program =  latex
\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\usepackage{amsmath, amssymb}
\usepackage[dvipsnames, svgnames]{pstricks}
\usepackage{pst-plot, pst-math, pst-3dplot}
\usepackage{pst-grad, pst-func, pst-text}
\usepackage{pstricks-add}
\title{Brief Article}
\author{The Author}
\begin{document}
\maketitle
\begin{figure}[htbp]
\begin{center}
	\begin{pspicture}(-3.5,-3)(3.5,3.5)
	\psset{Alpha=-30, unit=3}
		\pstThreeDCoor[xMin=0, xMax=1.5, yMin=0, yMax=1.5, zMin=0, zMax=2]
		\pstThreeDSquare[fillstyle=solid, fillcolor=gray, linestyle=none] 
(0,0,0)(1,0,0)(0,1,0)
		\psplotThreeD[xPlotpoints=10, yPlotpoints=10, drawStyle=xyLines](0,1) 
(0,1){x y mul}
		
		\newcommand{\veclength}[3]{%
			#1 dup mul #2 dup mul #3 dup mul add add 0.5 exp
		}
	\newcommand{\makevector}[3]{%
		\pstThreeDLine[arrows=->, arrowscale=2, linewidth=2pt](0,0,0) 
(#1,#2,#3)%
		}
				
		\multido{\rx=0+0.1}{10}{%
			\multido{\ry=0+0.1}{10}{%
				\pstThreeDPut(!\rx, \ry, \rx\space \ry\space mul){%
					\makevector{\ry\space \veclength{\rx}{\ry}{1}\space div neg}%
						{\rx\space \veclength{\rx}{\ry}{1}\space div neg}%
						{1 \veclength{\rx}{\ry}{1}\space div neg}%
				}
			}
		}
	\end{pspicture}
\label{fig:fluxint1}
\end{center}
\end{figure}



\end{document}
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Here is my console output:
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### /usr/texbin/latex MinimalPST3DTest.tex
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entering extended mode
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LaTeX2e <2005/12/01>
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ibycus, ar
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danish, dutc
h, esperanto, estonian, farsi, finnish, french, galician, german,  
ngerman, mono
greek, greek, hungarian, icelandic, indonesian, interlingua, irish,  
italian, la
tin, mongolian, mongolian2a, bokmal, nynorsk, polish, portuguese,  
romanian, rus
sian, sanskrit, serbian, slovak, slovenian, spanish, swedish, turkish,  
ukenglis
h, ukrainian, uppersorbian, welsh, loaded.
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plot.sty
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add.tex
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add.sty
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add.tex))

No file MinimalPST3DTest.aux.
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(./MinimalPST3DTest.aux)

LaTeX Warning: Label(s) may have changed. Rerun to get cross- 
references right.

  )
Output written on MinimalPST3DTest.dvi (1 page, 478444 bytes).
Transcript written on MinimalPST3DTest.log.
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### ps2pdf13 /tmp/altpdflatex.4410-1231358305/MinimalPST3DTest.ps /tmp/ 
altpdflatex.4410-1231358305/MinimalPST3DTest.pdf
Error: /undefined in !0.0
Operand stack:

Execution stack:
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Current allocation mode is local
Last OS error: 2
Current file position is 182602
GPL Ghostscript 8.62: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
### FAILED to generate /tmp/altpdflatex.4410-1231358305/ 
MinimalPST3DTest.pdf ()
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Zbigniew Nitecki
Department of Mathematics
Tufts University
Medford, MA 02155

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