you may want to try blender http://blender.nl I've used it for some time, it akes a little getting used to but it is a full featured package, animation and modeling supports primitives, booleen, splines and such, with texture mappings. no partile arrays at this point. I have seen a few other options but this is the best none commercial that I have seen thus far. SuSE has this packaged in the commercial section of the install. Rowan +AFs-TSS+AF0- Gerber Scientific Products http://www.gspinc.com +AD4- -----Original Message----- +AD4- From: Jack Barnett +AFs-mailto:jbarnett+AEA-axil.netmate.com+AF0- +AD4- Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2000 8:18 AM +AD4- To: Steven T. Hatton+ADs- suse-linux-e+AEA-suse.com +AD4- Subject: Re: +AFs-SLE+AF0- 3D graphics and animation tools for linux? +AD4- +AD4- +AD4- +AD4- ----- Original Message ----- +AD4- From: Steven T. Hatton +ADw-hattons+AEA-CPKWEBSER5.ncr.disa.mil+AD4- +AD4- To: +ADw-suse-linux-e+AEA-suse.com+AD4- +AD4- Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2000 6:03 AM +AD4- Subject: +AFs-SLE+AF0- 3D graphics and animation tools for linux? +AD4- +AD4- +AD4- +AD4- Does anybody have a favorite 3D graphics tool they use with +AD4- Linux? I am +AD4- +AD4- particularly interested in the representation of +AD4- mathematical surfaces +AD4- +AD4- and solids. I am also interested in the animation of graphical +AD4- +AD4- representation of mathematical objects which change over +AD4- time (or what +AD4- +AD4- ever parameter you chose as time). A long time ago I got +AD4- my hands on a +AD4- +AD4- tool called polyray. I believe it had povray at its core. +AD4- +AD4- +AD4- +AD4- As I was writing this, I did a search on polyray and found it to be +AD4- +AD4- available online. Believe it or not, I found it in Germany of all +AD4- +AD4- places. I will take a look at this after work. I am still +AD4- interested +AD4- +AD4- in others' input. This is a log standing interest of mine. +AD4- I have been +AD4- +AD4- trying to do such things with mathematica, but it seems +AD4- overly obtuse. +AD4- +AD4- +AD4- +AD4- TIA +AD4- +AD4- +AD4- +AD4- Steve +AD4- +AD4- +AD4- Provray IIRC is a ray trace program. There is Blender +AD4- (http://www.freshmeat.com) which does 3D graphics and +AD4- animation, it isn't +AD4- GPL, but it is a free (as in beer). +AD4- +AD4- Jack +AD4- +AD4- +AD4- -- +AD4- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe+AEA-suse.com +AD4- For additional commands send e-mail to +AD4- suse-linux-e-help+AEA-suse.com +AD4- Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/ +AD4- -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/