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Re: Question about calculating time and 3-D visualization

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  • Subject: [mg37876] Re: Question about calculating time and 3-D visualization
  • From: Jens-Peer Kuska <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
  • Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2002 01:15:43 -0500 (EST)
  • Organization: Universitaet Leipzig
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Hi,

in general you can do everything with
Mathematica that you can do with any other
programming language.

Can you more specific ? I know what a hemispherical view
ist but I have no idea what a "rasterization of a vector"
is.

And what is the "simulation of 3 million cylinders"
Say you use 18 x 2 polygons for your cylinder.
Probably you will wait forever until Mathematica's 
PostScript renderer has drawn 60 * 10^6 polygons.
You can try MathGL3d 

http://phong.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/~kuska/mathgl3dv3/

and a good graphics card GeForce 3/4
or ATI Radeon to render 60 Million polygons but you have
probably to wait 30-45 seconds.

Regards
  Jens


Inge Jonckheere wrote:
> 
> Dear all,
> 
> as an absolute beginner in Mathematica, I would like to visualize in 3-D
> hemispherical views by means of projection (actually rasterization of a
> vector). Does anybody know if this is possible?
> 
> Moreover I was wondering what would be the calculating time for the
> simulation of 3 million cylinders in the new version of Mathematica? can
> anybody check this for me, as I still have an older version.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Inge


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