[Edu-sig] And now for something completely different...

[Jason Cunliffe]

From: "Kirby Urner" <pdx4d@teleport.com>
> I've taught my polyhedra to display themselves in .m format, via
> a lg3d.py module, so now I can provide browsers with interactive
> views such as found at:
>
>        http://www.inetarena.com/~pdx4d/ocn/lvmviews.html

Kirby

This is great news!

I would love to see and try your lg3d.py module. Is it posted anywhere?

I have been a big fan of Mathematica used with Martin Kraus's terrific
LiveGraphics3D applet for several years. It keeps getting better. It loads
quickly and is very fast and repsonsive.

It is capable of nice animation -> [see examples on his site ] and has some
lovely 'hide/reveal' features using alternate keys + mouse buttons to remove
elements dynamically from a model display

Wolfram, though touting it off a little, have been reluctant as always to
quickly take this ball and run with it. Which is perhaps just as well since
Martin Kraus is freer to keep doing his 'thing' unencumbered.

I suggest you put these mouse interaction hotkeys info close at hand on your
own page:

user action  applet reaction
dragging (left mouse button pressed)  rotating about an axis in the picture
releasing left mouse button while dragging  spinning about an axis in the
picture
SHIFT key pressed plus vertical dragging  zooming
SHIFT key pressed plus horizontal dragging  rotating about an axis
perpendicular to the picture
CONTROL key pressed plus vertical dragging  changing focal length
CONTROL key pressed plus horizontal dragging  changing strength of stereo
effect
META (ALT) key (or right mouse button) pressed plus vertical dragging
stripping parts of the graphics
"o" key  printing parameter settings to the Java console (aka Java messages
window)
"s" key  toggling between single picture, stereo pictures for diverge fusing
and stereo pictures for cross fusing
HOME key  restoring original perspective (no spinning)

<quoted from the Docs at
http://wwwvis.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/%7Ekraus/LiveGraphics3D/documentat
ion.html >


- Jason
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