[R] Exporting an rgl graph

[Michael Friendly]

luke at stat.uiowa.edu wrote:
> 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

Luke,
Your misc3d-pdf example is very instructive and the .tex file shows how
to embed in LaTeX.  Thanks! (JCGS 19(1) is actually one of the nicest
issues in a long time.)
Of the two approaches you
describe, the Asymptote route seems easier and more capable than the
MeshLab one.

It would be particularly useful to have this capability available for 
rgl.  Any plans for this?

One note:  With Adobe Acrobat Pro 9.3.1, the U3D and PRC images display
on screen, but do not print (replaced by the filename).  Is this your
experience too?

-Michael


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