[Tugindia] 3D Graphics in PStricks

[Kapil Hari Paranjape]

Hello,

On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 08:30:15AM +0530, Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote:
> Perhaps your question is whether there is an extension of the PS-tricks
> graphics description language that allows you to specify a 2-D
> projection of a 3-D image and thus use TeX+dvips to perform the
> rendering directly.
> 
> Short Answer: Not as far as I know.
> 
> Longer Answer: I believe it should be possible to tweak PS-tricks,
> metapost or other TeX/LaTeX graphics languages to produce 3-D but it
> will take some work. Probably the usage of 3-D images among TeX users is
> not large enough to motivate people to undertake this task. You may
> think otherwise --- hint, hint :-)

Which turned out to be wrong because ...

On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 08:28:30AM +0200, Herbert Voss wrote:
> http://PSTricks.de/pst-plot/3D/examples.phtml
> ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/generic/
> ftp://ftp.dante.de/pub/tex/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-3dplot/
> ftp://ftp.dante.de/pub/tex/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-vue3d/

I stand corrected. I am continually amazed how people have anticipated
and solved problems which *seem* to be rather specialised!

Thanks and regards,

Kapil Paranjape.

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