Re: [Swarm-Support] 3-D Representation

[Paul E Johnson]

I was freaked out there for a minute. I thought you meant somebody 
produced that 3d picture "graph.gif" with Swarm.  The 3dlib you refer to 
 implements positional record keeping, but does not do any of the work 
of drawing the image onto a beautiful picture.

Has anybody used Swarm to make a 3d picture?

It seems to me that drawing a 3d picture like that during a simulation 
would make it really slow, wouldn't it?  If you run a program to draw a 
picture like that from a dataset, it is usually not speedy...

Makes me wish there were a blt 3d component we could  hook up.

If this were my project, I would be inclined to say that the simulation 
should be in Swarm, but you should output the positional data and make 
the beautiful 3d picture with some other program that is intended for 3d 
pictures.  I have a really great commercial stat package called S+ that 
can do that, and its free cousin R can do it, but not so easily.  I saw 
some great graphs of that sort in a SAS presentation lately.

Mrinal Singh wrote:
> Hi
> I am refering to 3dLib-0.1.tar.gz. I am attaching the readme file of the 3d 
> demo. I am also attaching gif of the kind of representation I am looking 
> for.
>
> regards
>
>                               3dDemo App
>
>    This is a *very* simple demo to illustrate usage of the Discrete3d
> class.  It fully implements and uses a 3d discrete space.  The code is
> commented only in places where using this space would be different
> from how a Discrete2d might be used.  Hence, if you see a piece of
> code in this demo that you don't understand and is not commented, you
> will find very good explanations in one of the other demos.  The
> comments of interest begin with "// 3d-specific:".


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