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From: jerry@truevision.com (Jerry Thompson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Data driven 3D rendering and animation
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Date: 18 Sep 90 15:36:12 GMT
References: <20066.26f0fb4f@oregon.uoregon.edu>
Reply-To: jerry@epicb.UUCP (Jerry Thompson)
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Organization: Truevision Inc., Indianapolis, IN
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In article <20066.26f0fb4f@oregon.uoregon.edu> gpotts@oregon.uoregon.edu writes:
>I want to take a 3D object and have access to the color parameters of the
>individual polygons which make up the object so that those colors could be 
>driven by data. In other words, I need a program which allows script control
>of the color parameters of the display list. With such a capability, I could
>take arrays of data which represent measurements at different times and apply
>those measurements to drive the colors of the 3D object. Neither Sculpt nor
>Turbo Silver have this capability but there are a number of new rendering and
>animation packages on the market and I wonder if any of them might work.

Take a look at PageRender 3D from Mindware International.  It has support for
AREXX and allows you to access and modify object structures via AREXX.
-- 
Jerry Thompson                 |     // checks  ___________   | "I'm into S&M,
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