... Graphics
MuPAD has an interactive graphic interface (called vcam)
to create and manipulate 2D and 3D scenes. Graphics can be saved
as GIF-images, Postscript-images or in special MuPAD formats. We're
also working on a filmtool to animate them. The following examples
were made with vcam.
Contents
- Graphical primitives
- 2D-Graphics
- 3D-Graphics
- Animations
- Index of algebraic examples
Graphics can be build up on graphical primitives like points,
polygons and colour-filled triangles by putting them in a
list. This especially allows turtle graphics and other
plots of discret objects.
2D graphical scenes may consist of serveral 2D-objects of different
colours, line styles and with different titles. Colours may be
defined flat, corresponding to the height (y-axis) of an object or
by a user-defined colour-function.
3D graphical scenes may consist of serveral 3D-objects of different
colours, line and surface styles and with different titles. Colours
may be defined flat, corresponding to the hight (y-axis) of an object
or by a user-defined colour-function. Surfaces may be displayed as
colour patches or transparent. Also wireframe as well as hiddenline
models can be plotted.
The following animations are calculated with MuPAD and given as
Quicktime movies (with the suffix .mov). To
watch them, a Quicktime movie player - e.g. like the
public domain programs xanim on Unix systems and
MoviePlayer or sparkle on Apple Macintosh -
is needed. Maybe you also have to configure your WWW client
(netscape, mosaic, ...) and tell it how to launch these
applications.
On Unix systems, if xanim is installed on your machine, add the
following lines to your private ~/.mailcap file. No
space must be left after the symbols '\':
video/quicktime; \
xanim %s; \
test=test "$DISPLAY"
On Apple Macintosh (netscape) use the Preference entry of the
Options menu to configure how to handle Quicktime
movies.
Try to reload this configuration file within your WWW client.
If this is not possible, you have to restart it.
After that, click
here to start the first animation (800Kb). If your
WWW client cannot handle gizp-compressed files then
click
here to get the uncompressed version (2.5Mb).
Author: MuPAD-Webmaster
Last updated: 04. Oct. 1995