Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!know!slug!wex From: wex@dali.pws.bull.com (Buckaroo Banzai) Newsgroups: comp.graphics.visualization Subject: Re: Look at it this way... Message-ID: Date: 20 Nov 90 20:31:42 GMT References: <7588@eos.arc.nasa.gov> <60867@bbn.BBN.COM> <11233@milton.u.washington.edu> Sender: news@pws.bull.com Organization: Bull Worldwide Information Systems Inc. Lines: 12 Nntp-Posting-Host: dali.pws.bull.com In-reply-to: cyberoid@milton.u.washington.edu's message of 16 Nov 90 06:16:41 GMT [The original question related to how to view 4D-info in 3D.] One thing I'm fond of, which I think frequently get shortchanged, is to map the 4th dimension to time. Paint a series of 3D pictures and show them in a closed loop. It's a little more compute-intensive, and you have to be careful you don't imply something with motion that you didn't intend, but it avoids having to collapse your data too much. -- --Alan Wexelblat phone: (508)294-7485 Bull Worldwide Information Systems internet: wex@pws.bull.com Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it's supposed to do.