[R] Exporting an rgl graph

[luke at stat.uiowa.edu]

The current issue of JCGS (Vol 18 No 1,
http://pubs.amstat.org/toc/jcgs/19/1) has an editorial on including
animations, 3D visualizations, and movies in on-line PDF files
supporting JCGS articles. The online supplements to the editorial
include examples.  The 3D examples related to the misc3d packages are
also available in
http://www.stat.uiowa.edu/~luke/R/misc3d/misc3d-pdf/.  At some point
the code there will be added to misc3d.  It should be possible to
adapt these ideas to other objects rendered with rgl.

luke


On Thu, 15 Apr 2010, baptiste auguie wrote:

> I have seen pdf files with 3D objects embedded in it, using the U3D format,
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_3D
>
> but I don't think there's a device for this in R; in fact there may
> not even exist a third-party post-processing route available at this
> time to bridge the gap between rgl and this format. It sure would be
> nice, though.
>
> Best,
>
> baptiste
>
>
>
> On 15 April 2010 14:12, Barry Rowlingson <b.rowlingson at lancaster.ac.uk> wrote:
>> On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 1:01 PM,  <cgenolin at u-paris10.fr> wrote:
>>> Thanks for you answer. Let me precise my question.
>>>
>>> In fact, I do not want to "capture" a screen, I want to save an object that
>>> can be seen in 3D. With rgl, using my mouse, I can make the object move.
>>> This is what I want to export: an real 3D object that my collaborator will
>>> have the possibility to see in 3D.
>>>
>>
>>  You mean without them having to install R and rgl and run the code
>> that produces your graphic?
>>
>>  I guess you could somehow export a VRML or some other 3d file:
>>
>>  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VRML
>>
>>  but I suspect of all the billions of people on the planet only Duncan
>> Murdoch knows enough about rgl to figure that one out...
>>
>>  The person at the other end would still need a VRML viewer. Just get
>> them to install R.
>>
>> Barry
>>
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