Re: [Fwd: Re: Introducing real 3d in Gnuplot (Was: Re: please try POV-Ray and VRML terminals )]

[Petr M. <mi...@ph...>]

> plots*. So we are not really after a "more feature-full 3D", just a
> sensible way of making the existing 3D information available to a
> terminal (such as POV-Ray) that would have something useful to do with
> it.
>
> I'm assuming the POV-Ray driver needs 3D so that it can determine
> directions of shading and lighting, "ray trace" if you will?

I think the new "plot3d" will be "just" copying the complete 3D information
of all objects into the output 3D file in VRML, Povray,... syntax.

"set view" will be written as default Viewpoint (in VRML terminology), but
the user could rotate/zoom the scence by mouse in his favourite viewer.

> Unfortunately the existing 'API' doesn't allow for 3D.

That's rather good luck -- you can design it from scratch.

This proposal of new 3D plotting has nothing common with the current
(projected) flat 2D plotting. Or has it (except for reading data files)?

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