The translate command takes a plot structure and produces a new plot structure translated by the specified constants.

The inputs p or q must be two- or three-dimensional plot data structures, while a, b, c are real numbers representing the distances to translate in the x, y and z directions.

The result of a call to translate is a PLOT or PLOT3D data structure containing enough information to render the plot. You can assign the data structure to a variable, save it in a file, then read it back in for redisplay.  For more information about plot data structures, see plot[structure] or plot3d[structure].

Several commands in the plottools package can transform plots. For a list, see the plottools help page.  The plots[changecoords] and plots[display] commands can also be used to transform plots.

$\mathrm{with}\left(\mathrm{plottools}\right)\:$

$\mathrm{with}\left(\mathrm{plots}\right)\:$

$p≔\mathrm{plot}\left(\left[\sin \left(x\right)\,x\,x\=0..2\mathrm{Pi}\right]\,\mathrm{coords}\=\mathrm{polar}\right)\:$

$\mathrm{display}\left(\left[p\,\mathrm{translate}\left(p\,2\,3\right)\right]\right)$

$q≔\mathrm{plot3d}\left(1\,\mathrm{\θ}\=0..2\mathrm{Pi}\,\mathrm{\φ}\=0..\mathrm{Pi}\,\mathrm{coords}\=\mathrm{spherical}\right)\:$

$\mathrm{display}\left(\left[q\,\mathrm{translate}\left(q\,1\,2\,3\right)\right]\,\mathrm{lightmodel}\=\mathrm{light3}\,\mathrm{orientation}\=\left[20\,70\right]\,\mathrm{scaling}\=\mathrm{constrained}\right)$