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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.




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