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Re: 3D Graphics suggestions?

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• Subject: [mg64717] Re: [mg64630] 3D Graphics suggestions?
• From: "Igor C. Antonio" <igora at wolf-ram.com>
• Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2006 04:11:37 -0500 (EST)
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Sensei wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I'm new to Mathematica (5.2), and I find it really wonderful, even 
> though not always obvious :) My question is simple.
> 
> I need to plot multiple 3d graphic objects, mainly lines with different 
> color/thickness attributes, allowing some easy manipulation, just zoom 
> and rotations (pan is not necessary).
> 
> I've found two packages, one is SuperWidgetPackage, the other is 
> MathGL3d. The problem is that none of them seem to work correctly. 
> SuperWidgetPackage can show 3d graphics, but it seems to me attributes 
> do not work. The other one, MathGL3d does not even start when <<'ing 
> the package showing a syntax error (I know, on library.wolfram.com 
> there's writtne ``works with Mathematica 3.x and 4.0'', but I gave it a 
> try...).
> 
> Can you suggest a simple package for doing these ``interactive'' plots 
> (or redirect me to a more appropriate newsgroup if necessary)? I don't 
> really need anything sophisticated... :)
> 
> Thanks to anyone!
> 

Sensei,

You may want to check out LiveGraphics3D, developed by Martin Kraus.

http://wwwvis.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/~kraus/LiveGraphics3D/index.html

I'm sure if it supports what you want, but since none of the others you 
mentioned support everything you want, it's worth trying it.  The usual 
disclaimer: it's a third-party package, so it's not supported by Wolfram Research.

Answering a question posed in other emails, RealTime3D was deprecated in 
Mathematica 5.0.  It's still in the build for compatibility, but it will be 
removed in the future.


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