Re: Re: MathGL3d and Mathematica 5.3
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- Subject: [mg64273] Re: [mg64260] Re: MathGL3d and Mathematica 5.3
- From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
- Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2006 02:44:39 -0500 (EST)
- Organization: Mathematics & Statistics, Univ. of Mass./Amherst
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From the product manual for MathGL3d (version 4) at http://www.wolfram.com/products/applications/mathgl3d/: "... adds ... support for bump mapping, illuminated lines and an improved volume rendering....POVRAY output has been rewritten to produced smaller output files....the new version allows [more?] colors per vertex and colors per face. The documentation has been improved....The light source editor has been enhanced." I agree, though, that some sort of basic 3D interactivity ought to be included in the base Mathematica product -- in fact ought to have been included already. So it's almost unimaginable to me that Wolfram would not include some sort of 3D interactivity in some new version soon. I'm even a bit puzzled why this has not already happened. Perhaps it's been a question of good performance in the interpreted system; perhaps it's a question of what interface design fits with the overall front end design; perhaps, even, Wolfram has been waiting for hardware to catch up. Ronald Bruck wrote: > (Top-posting because Murray did) > > Really? Wolfram is SELLING MathGL3D? > > This brings up the obvious question: how much more functional is their > version than the original, FREE version, available at > > <http://phong.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/~kuska/mathgl3dv3/>? > > And is this why Kuska hasn't ever updated it for Mac OS? > > --Ron Bruck > > In article <ds9nlb$bh$1 at smc.vnet.net>, Murray Eisenberg > <murray at math.umass.edu> wrote: > >> It seems unlikely that Wolfram would include THAT much functionality in >> the next version of Mathematica. After all, it is now selling MathGL3d >> as a 4d-party Application at a standard price of $450 and an educational >> price of $300. >> >> I, for one, would sure hate to have the price of Mathematica itself go >> up by anything like that much just in order to include the full >> functionality of MathGL3d. >> >> >> Mitch Murphy wrote: >>> attention wolfram ... >>> >>> please include MathGL3d in Mathematica 5.3. i'm very disapointed that >>> mathematica still does not have an integrated interactive 3d viewer >>> after so many years. > > -- Murray Eisenberg murray at math.umass.edu Mathematics & Statistics Dept. Lederle Graduate Research Tower phone 413 549-1020 (H) University of Massachusetts 413 545-2859 (W) 710 North Pleasant Street fax 413 545-1801 Amherst, MA 01003-9305
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- MathGL3d and Mathematica 5.3
- From: Mitch Murphy <mitch@mix5.com>
- Re: MathGL3d and Mathematica 5.3
- From: Ronald Bruck <bruck@math.usc.edu>
- MathGL3d and Mathematica 5.3