| Darxus on Sun, 12 May 2002 11:00:19 +0200 |
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http://www.chaosreigns.com/code/springgraph/3d.html :P It worked. "wow, that's very, very pretty :)" - mct "holy [censored] that 3d graph rocks" - Time Yeah, so... I'm pretty happy about this. I finally got around to writing springgraph, to use instead of neato to graph the plug keyring, with math that I feel is more appropriate to this dataset (which I mentioned here several days ago). Then, even better, as I had hoped, I was able to extrapolate the concept into 3D, and output a povray 3D scene file. And it all works. You'll find 16 1024x768 renderings of the plug keyring on the above url. Downloading will be slow, because it's not on the plug site, because I'm already over (the 5mb) quota there. I tried (and succeed in) building an mpeg out of these (using imagemagick), but the quality was horrible. You're much better off downloading the stills and doing a slideshow. The generated .pov file includes a "clock" variable for use with pov's animation functions, which is how I generated these 16 images. I am very interested in all kinds of feedback on this stuff. I have not attempted anything resembling the arrowheads that have been in the 2d plug keyring graphs. There is some possibility of doing conical arrowheads, but... well, I don't feel like it yet. I would prefer to do something easier, like changing the width of the cylinder on each end to show which one a signature has been made on (which would make it a conic section, I guess). I would like to make the labels easier to read. I don't know how texturing them directly onto the spheres would go. Another option is to try to angle the labels directly toward the camera... which would be.. more fun with math I'd long forgotten. I would like to do something that would allow flying through this 3D model. VRML immediately comes to mind, but I am having difficulty finding a VRML viewer that runs under linux that can render a simple sample scene. I'd prefer not to write a full rendering thing in SDL. Suggestions on this would be appreciated as well. Thanks to Gabriel for being the only one to show any interested in me working on the .pov / 3D output. I am definitely happy with the results. -- "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." - George Bernard Shaw http://www.ChaosReigns.com Attachment:
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