William Stein wrote: > On Dec 3, 2007 4:47 PM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Is there currently *any* way of getting Java3D to work reliably >>> together with sage on, say Mac G5 systems running OSX and on i386/ >>> amd64 with linux? >>> It doesn't necessarily have to be from the notebook, >>> although that would be preferable. Are instructions for this >>> available? Will we have this running well in advance of August 2008? >>> Are there other high quality interactive 3D visualisation tools that >>> work nicely with Sage and are so easy to install that you can ask the >>> average sysadmin to do it? >> I think Java3d already works fine on Macs and Linux from , so long as >> you have java installed. I use it "all the time" when I want to do >> 3d visualization. This was something Robert Bradshaw implemented >> last summer (it was a huge amount of work), but it's been usable >> for quite a while. > > I should add that the quality and *speed* of what one gets using Java3d > is amazing. One can fluidly animate hundreds of objects at once with > lighting, textures, etc. This is definitely the future for Sage 3d graphics > in the notebook.. >
Can we do animation easily using Java3d in Sage? That would be awesome. -Jason --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ and http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---