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Re: Mouse controlled 3D rotations

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• Subject: [mg57884] Re: [mg57848] Mouse controlled 3D rotations
• From: Marco Gabiccini <m.gabiccini at ing.unipi.it>
• Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2005 03:35:41 -0400 (EDT)
• Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

Use experimental package <<RealTime3D`.
Then, when plotting 3D object with Show you can rotate 3d with mouse.

The formatting of the plot is completely destroyed though.

I do not figure out why. I asked also to the list but I did not receive any 
reply.

Bye,

Marco

At 02:29 AM 6/10/2005 -0400, you wrote:
>Is there a way to build a 3D graphics object (e.g., a simple
>Tetrahedron) and manipulate it (e.g., rotate it in 3D) with the mouse?
>
>There is an example on webMathematica of just this, but I haven't
>figured out how to do it at all in plain ol' Mathematica.
>
>Does it matter what system I'm on (AIX 5.1 or WinXP)?
>
>I noticed that on AIX5.1, starting math kernel (no notebooks) that I can
>use Animate[] to make a movie of a rotating Tetrahedron.  In XP, the
>same doesn't produce anything.  On either system, in a notebook, I just
>get multiple graphics objects, one for each rotational position --
>there's no live animation.
>
>Any guidance is appreciated.
>
>Jim Hafner
>hafner at almaden.ibm.com

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