Figure Asymptote tube -- 005

Posted on 2011-01-01 Edited on 2025-04-20 In Tech , Programming , Asymptote , Examples 3D , Tube.asy

An Asymptote code and the generated picture tube--005.

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Figure tube 005 Generated with Asymptote

Show tube/fig0050.asy on Github.
Generated with Asymptote 3.00-0.
Categories : Examples 3D | Tube.asy
Tags : #Tube | #Graph (3D) | #Shading (3D)

import tube;
import graph3;

size(10cm,0);
currentprojection=perspective(4,3,4);
real x(real t) {return (1/sqrt(1+0.5*t^2))*cos(2pi*t);}
real y(real t) {return (1/sqrt(1+0.5*t^2))*sin(2pi*t);}
real z(real t) {return t;}

path3 p=graph(x,y,z,0,2.7,operator ..);
path section=scale(0.2)*polygon(5);

// tube.asy defines a "colored path".
// The value of coloredtype may be coloredSegments or coloredNodes.
// Here the path scale(0.2)*polygon(5) has fixed colored SEGMENTS.
coloredpath cp=coloredpath(section,
                           // The array of pens become automatically cyclic.
                           new pen[]{0.8*red, 0.8*blue, 0.8*yellow, 0.8*purple, black},
                           colortype=coloredSegments);

// Draw the tube, each SEGMENT of the section is colored.
draw(tube(p,cp));