User Guide

5 Plots and Animations
Maple can generate many forms of plots, allowing you to visualize a problem
and further understand concepts.
• Maple accepts explicit, implicit, and parametric forms to display 2-D
and 3-D plots and animations.
• Maple recognizes many coordinate systems.
• All plot regions in Maple are active; therefore, you can drag expressions
to and from a plot region.
• Maple offers numerous plot options, such as axes styles, title, colors,
shading options, surface styles, and axes ranges, which give you complete
control to customize your plots.
5.1 In This Chapter
TopicsSection
• Interactive Plot Builder
• Context Menu
• Dragging to a Plot Region
• The plot and plot3d Commands
• The plots Package
• Multiple Plots in the Same Plot Re-
gion
Creating Plots - Interactive and command-driven
methods to display 2-D and 3-D plots
• Interactive Plot Builder Options
• Context Menu Options
• The plot and plot3d Command Op-
tions
Customizing Plots - Methods for applying plot
options before and after a plot displays
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