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%%  The LaTeX Graphics Companion, 2ed (first printing May 2007)
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%%  Example 6-6-10 on page 405.
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%%  Copyright (C) 2007 Michel Goossens, Frank Mittelbach, Denis Roegel, Sebastian Rahtz, Herbert Vo\ss
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%%  of this license or (at your option) any later version.
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%%  See http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt for details.
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\documentclass{ttctexa}
\pagestyle{empty}
\setcounter{page}{6}
\setlength\textwidth{111.83385pt}
\StartShownPreambleCommands
\usepackage{pstricks,pst-3dplot}
\StopShownPreambleCommands
\begin{document}
\psset{xMin=-1,xMax=2,yMin=-1,yMax=2,zMin=-1,zMax=2}
\begin{pspicture}(-2,-2)(2,2)
 \pstThreeDCoor
 \pstThreeDDot[linecolor=red,%
   drawCoor=true](1,0.5,0.5)% center
 \psset{linecolor=blue, linewidth=1.5pt}
 \pstThreeDEllipse(1,0.5,0.5)(-0.5,1,0.5)(1,-0.5,-1)
 % settings for an arc
 \psset{beginAngle=0,endAngle=270,linecolor=green,arrows=|-|}
 \pstThreeDEllipse(1,0.5,0.5)(-0.5,0.5,0.5)(0.5,0.5,-1)
\end{pspicture}
\end{document}