the daemon likes coloured shapes, and was grinning when he said:

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: tikz-3dplot Author's name: Jeff Hein Author's email: jeffrey.d.hein@gmail.com Location on CTAN: /graphics/pgf/contrib/tikz-3dplot Summary description: 3D coordinate transformations and plotting using TikZ License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:

The tikz-3dplot package provides straightforward ways to define three-dimensional coordinate frames through which to plot in TikZ. The user can specify the orientation of the main coordinate frame, and use standard TikZ commands and coordinates to render their tikzfigure. A secondary coordinate frame is provided to allow rotations and translations with respect to the main coordinate frame. In addition, The tikz-3dplot package can also handle plotting user-specified functions in spherical polar coordinates, where both the radius and fill color can be expressed as parametric functions of polar angles.

thanks for the upload; i have installed the files and updated the catalogue repository.

Users may view the package catalogue entry at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/tikz-3dplot.html or they may browse the package directory at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/graphics/pgf/contrib/tikz-3dplot/

The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team