Ron Adam wrote: > Scott David Daniels wrote: >> James Stroud wrote: >>>> I'm looking for a program to do line-drawings in 3d, with output to >>>> postscript or svg or pdf, etc. I would like to describe a scene with >>>> certain 1-3d elements oriented in 3d space with dashed or colored >>>> lines and filled or transparent surfaces (or maybe semitransparent). >> >> >> Take a look at VPython -- easy to start, 3-D display (wall-eye / >> cross-eye) easy to run on. > > I really like VPython because of how easy it is to use once you are > familiar with it. > > Is there a way to have the display show a wire frame image instead of > shaded shapes? You can draw the edges as lines.
> And with or without hidden line removal? Not that I know of. The distinction would be whether you actually build the objects. Certainly for something like this you would be working with something like a "faces" object rather than a fully 3-D object. > Is there an easy way to convert a display to something that can be printed? You can generate POV-ray source. This is not a system for creating beautiful pictures, but rather a great 3-D sketch pad. --Scott David Daniels [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
