It's a great program. I worked it a bit last night - it does have draw limitations but you can cut and paste of course and it comes with 51 preset objects/equations (at least in Ubuntu). - Alan
On Sun, 21 Nov 2010, dave miller wrote: > hi alan > > Thanks for the advice - k3dsurf is available for the mac as well: > > http://k3dsurf.darwinports.com/ > > so am going to try this, am thinking of some way to incorporate into my > drawings > > dave > > > On 21 November 2010 07:11, Alan Sondheim <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Sat, 20 Nov 2010, dave miller wrote: >> >>> hi alan >>> >>> these are great - I especially like the crumpled objects, really >>> interesting - 4space2.png is my favourite. How do you make these? Do >>> you code them? >>> >> Just the equations; the program is called K3dSurf and you can download it >> for Ubuntu linux. There was something similar, smaller and rougher, but >> more sophisticated for the Sharp Zaurus, which was a linux pda, but more >> of a computer (you could program on it for example, in a terminal window). >> In the earlier one, you could program through any n-dimensions and take >> slices. You might be able to in K3dS - I've just started working with it. >> >>> Are some of these screen grabs from second life? In escaped5.png - I >>> really like the tree trunks. I've never tried second life, but are you >>> using it to make images/ stills? >>> >> They're not tree trunks - they're moving particles - everything is in >> turmoil as if boiling. The images are from Second Life; I've been putting >> up videos as well. An avatar can sit on any one of the 'objects' on the >> ground - which then begins to move, jerkily, and permanently leaves the >> installation. >> >> Thanks for your comments! - Alan >> >>> cheers, dave >>> >>> >>> On 20 November 2010 00:37, Alan Sondheim <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> requiems and 4d crumpled objects >>>> >>>> http://www.alansondheim.org/requiem.mp3 for odyssey in second life >>>> >>>> http://www.alansondheim.org/escaped1.png continued flight of objects >>>> http://www.alansondheim.org/escaped2.png after the fact, while talking >>>> http://www.alansondheim.org/escaped3.png to Garrett Lynch, trajectory >>>> http://www.alansondheim.org/escaped4.png towards odyssey and beyond >>>> http://www.alansondheim.org/escaped5.png from east of odyssey >>>> >>>> http://www.alansondheim.org/4space1.png 2d images of 3d slices of 4d >>>> http://www.alansondheim.org/4space2.png crumpled objects >>>> http://www.alansondheim.org/4space3.png >>>> http://www.alansondheim.org/4space4.png >>>> http://www.alansondheim.org/4space5.png >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> NetBehaviour mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >>>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> NetBehaviour mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >>> >>> >> >> >> == >> email archive: http://sondheim.rupamsunyata.org/ >> webpage http://www.alansondheim.org >> music archive: http://www.espdisk.com/alansondheim/ >> == >> _______________________________________________ >> NetBehaviour mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >> > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > == email archive: http://sondheim.rupamsunyata.org/ webpage http://www.alansondheim.org music archive: http://www.espdisk.com/alansondheim/ == _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
