ViewPoint and RealTime3D
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg28570] ViewPoint and RealTime3D
- From: Hugh Goyder <goyder at rmcs.cranfield.ac.uk>
- Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 21:35:57 -0400 (EDT)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Dear Newsgroup, How can I extract the ViewPoint from a graphic once I have found a nice orientation using RealTime3D or the simpler method recently discovered by Jens-Peer Kuska? (Congratulations to Jens for finding this see [mg28524].) In detail I want to do the following. Use RealTime3D, or more probably Jens method, to make a graphic that can be rotated Use the mouse to rotate the 3D graphic until I get a nice view Find out the ViewPoint corresponding to my nice view Paste this ViewPoint back into the original graphic Redraw the original graphic with my nice view and all the options available. This would avoid the use of the 3D ViewPoint Selector which I find difficult to use because I cannot imagine my graphic in the cube provided there. By using NotebookCreate[] in a small variation of Jens method the real time graphic is placed in a new notebook. This is getting similar to the 3D ViewPoint Selector. Presumably, Wolfram will eventually put our graphics into the 3D ViewPoint Selector so that this process can be automated. Thanks in advance for your responses. Hugh Goyder