Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ Spherical coordinates figure

[Cham]

Okay, I found a much simpler way. The figure is not finished yet, but it's a lot easier with Mathematica :

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[rais]

What's so cryptic about it?
You'll have to replace "foo" with your own filename, of course, and before you can call the first step, you need to open a console with a working directory set to the path your .tex file resides in.
Let's try this again : (assuming the folder and file names from your .log file above)

• open a console
  (since you mentioned one above, I assume you know what that is and where to find it)
• navigate to your .tex file
  cd ~/Desktop
• run pdfLaTeX
  pdflatex TSWLatexianTemp_000858.tex
• run asymptote
  asy TSWLatexianTemp_000858-01.asy
• run pdfLaTeX again
  pdflatex TSWLatexianTemp_000858.tex
• if no error occured, you now have a file `TSWLatexianTemp_000858.pdf'

Is that any better?

KR
Rainer

[Cham]

That's it ! I now just need to edit the lines thickness and colors, and add the symbols...

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And since this figure is really interactive, I can rotate it by hand and find the nicest view before exporting the vectorial file from Mathematica. Much easier !

[Cham]

I've added some small gaps under the curvy arrows to produce a volumetric effect (shown in red). The printed version is very nice !

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Pretty sure this is the final version.