Re: Question about Mathematica
- To: mathgroup@smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg11252] Re: Question about Mathematica
- From: Martin Kraus <mkraus@theorie3.physik.uni-erlangen.de>
- Date: Wed, 4 Mar 1998 01:39:13 -0500
- Organization: Univ. Erlangen-Nuernberg, Theoret. Physik III
- References: <6dg1t2$2et@smc.vnet.net>
Nick Migliozzi wrote: > Hi MathGroup, > > Let me tell you a feature that is missing from Mathematica which is > sorely > missed, in my opinion: The ability to grab a 3D graphic with the mouse > and change its viewpoints in real time. One has to go into the > ViewPoint changer (alas!) Why did Wolfram write it this way, I'll > never know! As far as I know, Wolfram is going to change this in a future version. > Does anyone know of a package or a special notebook that can be added to > Mathematica that will give it this feature? At least I do not know of a possibility to do this within Mathematica. However I recently wrote a Java applet for this task. Now do not be afraid because of "Java"! All you need is a web browser supporting Java. (Most web browsers do support Java.) The applet is able to display and interactively rotate Graphics3D objects, and (by pressing 'o') you can display the current settings of ViewPoint and ViewCenter on the Java console. (The Java console can be viewed with most web browsers supporting Java. For example with Netscape3: Choose Options/Show Java Console) The applet is non-commercial and available at http://theorie3.physik.uni-erlangen.de/~mkraus/Live.html It is also in MathSource, however some links are set incorrectly there, thus it is not easy to get the applet from there. I already reported this to Wolfram Research, but they do not seem to care too much about this problem. Using this applet to find a good ViewPoint needs the possibility to run Mathematica and your web browser at the same time. > Does anybody know what I am talking about? Hope so. :) > Thanks in advance, > Nicholas M. > /-/ NJMUG BBS \-\ New Jersey Macintosh Users Group /-/ > /-/ FirstClass BBS \-\ PO Box AK, Rahway, NJ 07065-0340 /-/ > /-/ 908-388-1676 (28.8K) \-\ http://www.njmug.org/ /-/ > /-/ bbs.njmug.org (Port 3004) \-\ Info:<mailto:info@njmug.org> /-/ > Martin Kraus