Re: 3D in PS

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From	JohnF <john@please.see.sig.for.email.com>
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Subject	Re: 3D in PS
Date	Fri, 10 Aug 2012 05:05:19 +0000 (UTC)
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Herbert Voss <Herbert.Voss@alumni.tu-berlin.de> wrote:
> schrieb JohnF:
>> Herbert Voss <Herbert.Voss@alumni.tu-berlin.de> wrote:
>>> schrieb luser- -droog:
>>>> The only source I have for doing 3D drawing
>>>> in Postscript is Bill Casselman's Mathematical
>>>> Illustrations. Are there any other resources out there?
>>>
>>> http://melusine.eu.org/syracuse/pstricks/pst-solides3d/
>>> uses always PS for the the 3d stuff
>>> Herbert
>>
>> More precisely, as suggested by the link, he seems to always use
>> the LaTeX pstricks package, along with the package pst-solides3d.
>> See, for example,
>>    http://melusine.eu.org/lab/bpst/pst-solides3d/objfusion/joao.pst
>> and click the [LaTeX] button to get his joao.tex file.
>> That's not a bad thing, per se, but not the same thing as
>> Casselman's approach.
> 
> it _is_ based on Casselman's ideas!
> More examples are here:
> http://tug.org/PSTricks/main.cgi?file=Examples/Gallery3D/Gallery3D
> Herbert

My bad. I guess I was focusing more on the postscript language
itself rather than on the algorithms being implemented.
But the thread subject clearly states it the other way around.
Thanks for the additional link.
-- 
John Forkosh  ( mailto:  j@f.com  where j=john and f=forkosh )

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3D in PS luser- -droog <mijoryx@yahoo.com> - 2012-07-18 23:28 -0700
  Re: 3D in PS tlvp <mPiOsUcB.EtLlLvEp@att.net> - 2012-07-19 03:47 -0400
    Re: 3D in PS luser- -droog <mijoryx@yahoo.com> - 2012-07-20 20:43 -0700
      Re: 3D in PS tlvp <mPiOsUcB.EtLlLvEp@att.net> - 2012-07-21 01:27 -0400
        Re: 3D in PS luser- -droog <mijoryx@yahoo.com> - 2012-07-21 13:23 -0700
          Re: 3D in PS tlvp <mPiOsUcB.EtLlLvEp@att.net> - 2012-07-21 22:16 -0400
            Re: 3D in PS luser- -droog <mijoryx@yahoo.com> - 2012-07-22 02:40 -0700
              Re: 3D in PS tlvp <mPiOsUcB.EtLlLvEp@att.net> - 2012-07-23 03:23 -0400
                Re: 3D in PS luser- -droog <mijoryx@yahoo.com> - 2012-07-23 20:40 -0700
                Re: 3D in PS tlvp <mPiOsUcB.EtLlLvEp@att.net> - 2012-07-24 01:21 -0400
            Re: 3D in PS Bogus@Embarq.com (Steve) - 2012-07-22 11:23 +0000
  Re: 3D in PS gernot.hoffmann@hs-emden-leer.de - 2012-07-20 10:58 -0700
  Re: 3D in PS Herbert Voss <Herbert.Voss@alumni.tu-berlin.de> - 2012-08-08 15:48 +0200
    Re: 3D in PS Peter Billam <peter@www.pjb.com.au> - 2012-08-08 23:17 +0000
    Re: 3D in PS JohnF <john@please.see.sig.for.email.com> - 2012-08-09 01:28 +0000
      Re: 3D in PS Herbert Voss <Herbert.Voss@alumni.tu-berlin.de> - 2012-08-09 12:19 +0200
        Re: 3D in PS JohnF <john@please.see.sig.for.email.com> - 2012-08-10 05:05 +0000
    Re: 3D in PS tlvp <mPiOsUcB.EtLlLvEp@att.net> - 2012-08-08 21:57 -0400
  Re: 3D in PS luser- -droog <mijoryx@yahoo.com> - 2013-08-31 15:42 -0700
    Re: 3D in PS Mark Carroll <mtbc@bcs.org> - 2013-09-01 09:28 +0100
      Re: 3D in PS luser- -droog <mijoryx@yahoo.com> - 2013-09-13 22:17 -0700
    Re: 3D in PS luser- -droog <mijoryx@yahoo.com> - 2013-09-19 02:51 -0700

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