[Tugindia] 3D Graphics in PStricks

[Herbert Voss]

Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote:

> On Sun, Aug 01, 2004 at 07:06:49PM +0530, Habeeb Basha Syed wrote:
> 
>> Is it possible to draw 3 dimensional graphics in Latex using
>>  PS tricks or any other package..
> 
> 
> It is not clear what you mean by "3-D graphics". Since TeX deals with
> the printed page (which is two-dimensional) you probably mean some 2-D
> projection of a 3-D image.
> 
> Secondly, you need to specify what 2-D format is going to be used for
> printing/presentation. Since you mention PS-tricks let us assume that
> you mean "postscript".
> 
> Finally, (but most importantly) you need to specify your 3-D image. This
> could be done in a number of different ways (see for example 
> http://www.linuxartist.org/3d/3d.html).
> 
> To create your document you need to render (in postscript) this 2-D
> projection of the 3-D specification. You will find a number of programs
> at the link above that will perform such a rendering.

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/

Herbert




-- 
http://TeXnik.de/
http://PSTricks.de/
ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/info/math/voss/Voss-Mathmode.pdf
http://www.dante.de/faq/de-tex-faq/
http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?introduction=yes