Re: Visualization site updates
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- Subject: [mg60965] Re: [mg60939] Visualization site updates
- From: "Jose Luis Gomez" <jose.luis.gomez at itesm.mx>
- Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 02:28:11 -0400 (EDT)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Hello Jeff. I just saw the first 3D interactive surface of your list below (my connection is too slow right now) and I can see that your surface is totally dark from below. A simple improvement is to add additional light sources so that the part below can be seen, as explained in this link: http://www.mathematik.uni-kassel.de/~rascha/Live3D/Klagenfurt_2001cd.html There are more things that can be done with LiveGraphics3D, not only rotate, you can create graphs that can be manipulated by the user, and here is a very simple example: http://homepage.cem.itesm.mx/lgomez/live3dcurvature/xa_texto.htm I have written a small LiveGraphics3D Tutorial. It is in Spanish; however it might be useful for your students/assistants because it has many graphs and very little text: http://homepage.cem.itesm.mx/lgomez/curso_lg3d.htm I have seen your site before and it has many great graphs. I use some of them in my computer's wallpaper; they change every 15 minutes thanks to a program called Webshots: http://www.webshots.com/homepage.html Bye! José Luis Gómez-Muñoz -----Mensaje original----- De: Jeff Bryant [mailto:jeffb at wolfram.com] Enviado el: Martes, 04 de Octubre de 2005 12:25 a.m. Para: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net Asunto: [mg60939] Visualization site updates I've begun adding some new functionality to my visualization site. A few people have requested the ability to be able to interact with the 3D graphics in real-time. I decided to try using LiveGraphics3D by Martin Krauss on several of my examples. Some of the examples are not appropriate for real-time interaction as the render time was too long. I picked a few of my 3D visualizations that were more reasonable. For those examples that are interactive, they are often rendered at lower resolutions to keep loading time down. I'd would be interested in hearing your thoughts on whether this is useful where appropriate. Here are the examples I currently have: http://members.wri.com/jeffb/visualization/3dsurf-interact.shtml http://members.wri.com/jeffb/visualization/potentials-interact.shtml http://members.wri.com/jeffb/visualization/galaxies-interact.shtml http://members.wri.com/jeffb/visualization/quake3d-interact.shtml http://members.wri.com/jeffb/visualization/algebraic-interact.shtml http://members.wri.com/jeffb/visualization/prehistoric-interact.shtml I have also added a new visualization (non-interactive) that uses Mathematica to visualize molecular structures in the protein data bank format. This particular animation shows an insulin molecule with 14,940 atoms in it. To keep the render time down, I used 3D points instead of spheres which unfortunately means no lighting effects: http://members.wri.com/jeffb/visualization/molecule.shtml -Jeff