The cylinder command creates a three-dimensional plot data object, which when displayed is a cylinder of height h.  The base circle of the cylinder is centered at c, of radius r, and parallel to the xy-plane.

The plot data object produced by the cylinder command can be used in a PLOT3D data structure, or displayed using the plots:-display command.

The cylinder is capped on both ends unless you specify the capped = false option.

The cylinder is constructed of n vertical strips, which can be specified with the strips = n option.  The default number of strips is 24.

Remaining arguments are interpreted as options, which are specified as equations of the form option = value. For more information, see plottools and plot3d/option.

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

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

$\mathrm{display}\left(\mathrm{cylinder}\left(\left[1\,1\,1\right]\,1\,3\right)\,\mathrm{orientation}=\left[45\,70\right]\,\mathrm{scaling}=\mathrm{constrained}\right)$

$\mathrm{display}\left(\mathrm{cylinder}\left(\left[1\,1\,1\right]\,1\,3\,\mathrm{capped}=\mathrm{false}\,\mathrm{strips}=40\right)\,\mathrm{orientation}=\left[45\,70\right]\,\mathrm{scaling}=\mathrm{constrained}\right)$

$\mathrm{display}\left(\mathrm{cylinder}\left(\left[1\,1\,1\right]\,3\,1\right)\,\mathrm{orientation}=\left[45\,70\right]\,\mathrm{scaling}=\mathrm{constrained}\right)$