[R] Exporting an rgl graph

[baptiste auguie]

On 15 April 2010 18:34,  <luke at stat.uiowa.edu> wrote:
> The current issue of JCGS (Vol 18 No 1,
> http://pubs.amstat.org/toc/jcgs/19/1) has an editorial on including
> animations, 3D visualizations, and movies in on-line PDF files
> supporting JCGS articles. The online supplements to the editorial
> include examples.  The 3D examples related to the misc3d packages are
> also available in
> http://www.stat.uiowa.edu/~luke/R/misc3d/misc3d-pdf/.  At some point
> the code there will be added to misc3d.  It should be possible to
> adapt these ideas to other objects rendered with rgl.
>
> luke
>
>
> On Thu, 15 Apr 2010, baptiste auguie wrote:
>
>> I have seen pdf files with 3D objects embedded in it, using the U3D
>> format,
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_3D
>>
>> but I don't think there's a device for this in R; in fact there may
>> not even exist a third-party post-processing route available at this
>> time to bridge the gap between rgl and this format. It sure would be
>> nice, though.

Very glad to be proven wrong!

Thanks,

baptiste