3D?

[Dennis Brown]

Rev should be able to handle these calculations directly as long as  
you are not talking about thousands of points.

Dennis

On Jul 22, 2005, at 3:04 PM, Lynch, Jonathan wrote:

> I have looked into this a little bit, and here is what I concluded:
>
> - An image with custom properties
>     - one customproperty contains the 3D data
>     - another customproperty contains the viewing perspective data
> (zoom,tilt,twist,pan,veiwpoint,etc...)
> - An external to do the math required for various moves
> - On opencard rev sends the 3D dataset to the external
> - When any movement is made, the viewing perspective information is
> changed, and you send the new viewing perspective information to the
> external, which does the math to calculate the imagedata for the  
> image,
> then returns that imagedata to Rev
> - Rev then sets the imagedata of the image to the new imagedata
>
>
> The math for doing these computations is not quite as bad as I thought
> it would be, and there are a number of websites on the Web that  
> explain
> it. However, a huge number of calculations must be performed, which is
> why I suggest an external.