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How show axes labels with AxesOrigin->{0,0,0} in 3D?

From	Murray Eisenberg <murray@math.umass.edu>
Newsgroups	comp.soft-sys.math.mathematica
Subject	How show axes labels with AxesOrigin->{0,0,0} in 3D?
Date	2011-06-06 10:24 +0000
Organization	Steven M. Christensen and Associates, Inc and MathTensor, Inc.
Message-ID	<isi9s0$lvi$1@smc.vnet.net> (permalink)

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Since Mathematica 7, 3D graphics has allowed the AxesOrigin option so 
that, for example, the axes can go through the origin {0,0,0}, just like 
the way that mathematicians (or at least college calculus teachers) do 
it and teach their students to do it.

That works, but...

If you include an AxesLabel option, the labels do not appear, e.g., from:

    Plot3D[x^2 - y^2, {x, -2, 2}, {y, -2, 2},
           AxesOrigin -> {0, 0, 0},
           AxesLabel -> {x, y, z},
           BoxRatios -> {1, 1, 1}, Boxed -> False]

Is there some way to make the axes labels appear (other than to add them 
manually using the Text function, say in an Epilog)?

[And is this just another instance of WRI protracted stubbornness even 
in admitting that having 3D axes emanating from the origin is a 
permissible way of handling 3D graphics?  (Scientific/engineering 
convention seems overwhelmingly to favor axes along edges of a 3D 
graphic, whereas in math -- as I suggested, at least in multivariable 
calculus -- axes emanating from the origin is the norm.)

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How show axes labels with AxesOrigin->{0,0,0} in 3D? Murray Eisenberg <murray@math.umass.edu> - 2011-06-06 10:24 +0000
  Re: How show axes labels with AxesOrigin->{0,0,0} in 3D? "Nasser M. Abbasi" <nma@12000.org> - 2011-06-07 10:47 +0000
  Re: How show axes labels with AxesOrigin->{0,0,0} in 3D? Helen Read <readhpr@gmail.com> - 2011-06-07 10:47 +0000

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