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Re: Making 3D PDF from IDL [message #83268 is a reply to message #83263]

Tue, 12 February 2013 13:59

David Fanning
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Paulo Penteado writes:

> Has anyone succeeded in creating 3D PDFs from IDL? I am referring to
> embedded 3D figures that can be rotated, panned and zoomed in Adobe
> Reader. Some examples are at
>
> http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2011.19900.x
> http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature07609
> http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1220574

Wow! That is cool. I didn't know anything like that was possible.
What next? 3D printers? ;-)

The hold-up might be shelling out $300 for the Adobe Software to do it.

> I want to make a 3D surface visualization, and thought I should ask
> here if anyone has written the code before I start doing it. Ideally,
> it would be a way to make the u3d file to use with the LaTeX movie15
> package (http://mirrors.rit.edu/CTAN/help/Catalogue/entries/
> movie15.html), so that Adobe's Acrobat 3D is not necessary.

Also cool. Let us know if you get this to work. :-)

Cheers,

David

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