On 03/09/09 23:11, Robert Bradshaw wrote: > Way back when I started working on the 3d stuff, this is what I > imagined people would do. Unfortunately, x3d viewers aren't common > (meaning not commonly installed, they are easy to get) and using an > applet to install and/or view them was unwieldily (both in terms of > the download size, and there were weird rendering issues). Jmol was > the first solution that worked well, out of the box, just about > anywhere.
Jmol is very nice. Just FYI, the freewrl deb file is about 0.5 MB. On the mac the installer is about 8 MB and seems to work great, although the plugin works under Safari and I didn't bother to figure out what to do to get it to work under FF. > I'm not sure how well the x3d functions have been maintained, but it > looks like you got them working which is a good sign. (No need to do Sorry to disappoint you but I haven't used any of the existing x3d code in sage. mayavi2 generates x3d natively via VTK. > jmol -> x3d, much easier to export it directly--in fact the internals > of the 3d plotting in Sage is conceptually much closer to x3d than to > jmol.) > >> But it looks like simple x3d support >> should work with a trivial patch to cell.py as Carl pointed out. I'm >> swamped myself but if its a trivial patch I can have a go. > > I bet it will be an easy patch. It was and I sent it to the list but doing more fancy things like detecting x3d support and prompting the user appropriately if it is not installed or presenting a png image in such a case hasn't been done. cheers, prabhu --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
