Scott David Daniels wrote:
> Ron Adam wrote:
>> Scott David Daniels wrote:
>>> James Stroud wrote:
>>>>> I'm looking for a program to do line-drawings in 3d, with output to
>>>>> postscript or svg or pdf, etc. I would like to describe a scene
>>>>> with certain 1-3d elements oriented in 3d space with dashed or
>>>>> colored lines and filled or transparent surfaces (or maybe
>>>>> semitransparent).
>>>
>>>
>>> Take a look at VPython -- easy to start, 3-D display (wall-eye /
>>> cross-eye) easy to run on.
>>
>> I really like VPython because of how easy it is to use once you are
>> familiar with it.
>>
>> Is there a way to have the display show a wire frame image instead of
>> shaded shapes?
> You can draw the edges as lines.
Is there a setting for this?, or are you suggesting reading the coordinates and
creating curve objects for the edges?
>> Is there an easy way to convert a display to something that can be
>> printed?
>
> You can generate POV-ray source. This is not a system for creating
> beautiful pictures, but rather a great 3-D sketch pad.
Doing a little googling found this...
http://cgkit.sourceforge.net/index.html
Still most of the items listed here are geared more towards 3d animation or for
generating displays and are not ideal for generating high quality printed pages.
_Ron
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