[R] Help with rgl

[Yihui Xie]

"Chinese extend a helping hand to Russians who happen to be in Brazil
about a package written in Germany," which gladdened an American.
Trotsky would be even more proud  -- and amazed!! :-)

Regards,
Yihui
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On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 11:07 AM, roger koenker
<roger at ysidro.econ.uiuc.edu> wrote:
> Why I love R  [Number  6]:
>
> Chinese  extend a helping hand to Russians who happen to be in Brazil
> about a package written in Germany.   Trotsky would be proud  -- and amazed!
>
> url:    www.econ.uiuc.edu/~roger                Roger Koenker
> email   rkoenker at uiuc.edu                       Department of Economics
> vox:    217-333-4558                            University of Illinois
> fax:    217-244-6678                            Champaign, IL 61820
>
>
> On Feb 17, 2009, at 8:37 PM, Yihui Xie wrote:
>
>> (1) you'll need ImageMagick installed to use the command "convert" to
>> convert image sequences into GIF animations; see ?movie3d
>> (2) "viewport" is read only!! see ?open3d carefully
>>
>> Regards,
>> Yihui
>> --
>> Yihui Xie <xieyihui at gmail.com>
>> Phone: +86-(0)10-82509086 Fax: +86-(0)10-82509086
>> Mobile: +86-15810805877
>> Homepage: http://www.yihui.name
>> School of Statistics, Room 1037, Mingde Main Building,
>> Renmin University of China, Beijing, 100872, China
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 2:45 AM, Iuri Gavronski <iuri at ufrgs.br> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I don't know much about the RGL package, and I have read the
>>> documentation and tried some parameters, with no luck... I would like
>>> to generate a movie from a 3D object (code below), where the vortex A
>>> is closer to the observer, and then the object rotates and the B
>>> vortex gets closer. I would like to capture this movie to a file.
>>>
>>> By the way, I am not being able to insert unicode text with text3d.
>>>
>>> rgl 0.82, R 2.8.1, Windows Vista.
>>>
>>> Any help would be appreciated.
>>>
>>> Code follows:
>>>
>>> library(rgl)
>>> open3d()
>>>
>>> coord.1=c(0,100,0)
>>> coord.2=c(100,100,0)
>>> coord.3=c(100,0,0)
>>> coord.4=c(0,0,0)
>>> coord.5=c(50,50,70)
>>>
>>> pyrcolor="red"
>>> triangles3d(rbind(coord.1,coord.4,coord.5),color=pyrcolor)
>>> triangles3d(rbind(coord.1,coord.2,coord.5),color=pyrcolor)
>>> triangles3d(rbind(coord.2,coord.3,coord.5),color=pyrcolor)
>>> triangles3d(rbind(coord.3,coord.4,coord.5),color=pyrcolor)
>>> quads3d(rbind(coord.1,coord.2,coord.3,coord.4),color=pyrcolor)
>>>
>>> vertices = LETTERS[1:5]
>>> text3d(coord.1,text=vertices[1],adj=1,color="blue")
>>> text3d(coord.2,text=vertices[2],adj=0,color="blue")
>>> text3d(coord.3,text=vertices[3],adj=0,color="blue")
>>> text3d(coord.4,text=vertices[4],adj=1,color="blue")
>>> text3d(coord.5,text=vertices[5],adj=0,color="blue")
>>>
>>> # couldn't make this work...
>>> #open3d(viewport=c(0,0,686,489))
>>> #par3d(zoom = 1.157625)
>>>
>>> filename = "piramide.png"
>>> rgl.snapshot(filename)
>>>
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