On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 6:01 PM, Peter <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I really like the canvas3d plot option in 4.1.2 since it will make it
> easier to implement interactive 3d scenes in Sage and make them also
> display in browsers that do not support java. I modified the
> canvas3d_lib.js file so that it can also be used in a plain html page
> and works on the iPhone and in IE.
>
> A small hack also makes the view angle similar to the one for jmol
> (and the parameters have been adjusted to reduce the fisheye effect).
>
> A demo is at http://mathcs.chapman.edu/~jipsen/canvas/sage/

WOW!  I just tried that with my iPhone, and it is extremely impressive
seeing interactive 3d Sage graphics on the iPhone.  Very cool.

>
> and the js file can be downloaded from that page (put it in devel/sage/
> sage/server/notebook/templates and restart the server to try it out
> with sage-4.1.2.alpha).
>
> Is anyone working on rendering surfaces with shading over the
> wireframe?

No.  Is it possible?

> Also I noticed that the line(...) command does not seem to work with
> the canvas3d option.

Can you implement it?   It would be great if more work could be done
on this.   Bill Cauchois -- a UW undergrad -- did a short summer
project with me in which he implemented the current canvas rendering,
but I don't think he plans to do much more on it.

William

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