Thanks, but I forgot to say my colleague has actually looked into Jmol and his conclusion is that the language is a bit too "Chemistry oriented" for him. That's why he goes back to use Mathematica.
I surely hope SAGE can tap into the power of Jmol in a not too distant future. Meanwhile we will give the Tachyon method a try. On Feb 24, 5:08 pm, Jason Grout <jason-s...@creativetrax.com> wrote: > pong wrote: > > A colleague of mine would like to produce some 3D animation (an > > illustration involving cones and spheres). He looked into SAGE and > > said it will be difficult compare to Mathematica and so he decided to > > use the latter. > > > By reading this group, I understand one can render the images via > > tachyon then produce the animation by imagemagick. I just wonder if > > there is any update (easier way) to do this. > > Jmol (our 3d graphic viewer) has some very nice animation capabilities. > We haven't tapped those in Sage yet, though. There are lots of demos > up online. A quick Google search yields these, for example: > > http://jmol.sourceforge.net/demo/animation/ > > http://www3.interscience.wiley.com:8100/legacy/college/boyer/04716617... > > http://www.umass.edu/molvis/martz/lectures/labmolgen/mj2.htm > > http://www.chem.ucalgary.ca/courses/351/Carey5th/Ch03/ch3-06.html > > Basically, jmol has a scripting language that lets you animate things in > the image. > > It would be cool if Sage could automatically write such an animation > script from some sort of Sage plot command... > > Jason --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
