[2838] in java-interest
animation software
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (rminer@geom.umn.edu)
Tue Oct 17 13:18:42 1995
From: rminer@geom.umn.edu
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 95 10:14:56 -0500
To: java-interest@java.sun.com
>> Java Users,
>>
>> I'd like to put some animation into some of my HTML pages. In order
>> to do this, I need to create a series of pictures, with one picture
>> per "frame" of animation. Each picture needs to be saved as a GIF file.
>>
>> Does anyone have any pointers to where I can get a nice package that
>> would allow me to create pictures and then rotate, twist, turn, and
>> whatever else must be done create sequential picture frames?
>
>Corel 5.0 allows for 3-d rotations.
Geomview is a very fine, free 3D viewer and animation package. It is
freely available from the Geometry Center at ftp.geom.umn.edu or
http:/www.geom.umn.edu/software/download/geomview.
It runs under X11 or NeXTstep, and there are precompiled binaries for
a number of architectures. If you have access to a unix/X11 platform,
it is far superior to Corel 5.0 as a visualization and animation tool,
especially for scientific uses.
The Geometry Center is currently in the process of developing java
applets that will allow 3D viewing of Geomview data files. Should be
cool.
Robert Miner
Technical Researcher
The Geometry Center
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