Re: Total Newbie
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- Subject: [mg11362] Re: Total Newbie
- From: "P.J. Hinton" <paulh@wolfram.com>
- Date: Sat, 7 Mar 1998 02:06:35 -0500
- Organization: Wolfram Research, Inc.
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On 6 Mar 1998, Peter Sjlin wrote: > I got Mathematica for a class I'm taking, but i'm also interested in > Mathematica as a toy. I'd like to know if there is examples from > beginning to start regarding creating various 3D objects, then turning > them into animateed gifs and other output formats. Exportation of Mathematica graphics as GIFs is possible through the Kernel's Display command: http://www.wolfram.com/support/Graphics/Formats/GIF/Export.html You will have to use a third party product to string together the GIFs into an animated file. A good reference on graphics programming is the book _Mathematica Graphics: Techniques and Applications_ by Tom Wickham-Jones. http://store.wolfram.com/view/ISBN0387940472/ A book with lots of examples is _Illustrated Mathematics: Visualization of Mathematical Objects with Mathematica_ by Gloor et al.: http://store.wolfram.com/view/ISBN0387142223/ Martin Kraus at the University of Erlangen has a really neat Java applet that lets you manipulate Graphics3D objects in real time. http://theorie3.physik.uni-erlangen.de/~mkraus/Live.html -- P.J. Hinton Mathematica Programming Group paulh@wolfram.com Wolfram Research, Inc. http://www.wolfram.com/~paulh/ Disclaimer: Opinions expressed herein are those of the author alone.