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From: dmurdoch@watstat.waterloo.edu (Duncan Murdoch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: 3d plotting and rotation of data points on pc
Keywords: plot,graphics,chaos
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Date: 10 Mar 90 23:04:54 GMT
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In article <1192@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU> shapiro@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU (Brian Shapiro) writes:
>
>I am looking for a pc/ms-dos based program that will allow me to load and
>display a series of x-y-z points on a pc system. there is a program
>on the macintosh that does this and then allows you to rotate the image
>around any axis, it is called macspin.
>
>does anyone know of such a product for the PC family of processors? if you
>do drop me a note. 

Acrospin is one cheap possibility.  It's not as flexible as MacSpin, but does
run faster.  It's $30 or so from

Acrobits
P.O Box 5563
Redwood City CA 94063-0563
(415) 369-0838

I heard from the author a couple of months ago that a new version was due out
soon, with hooks to programming languages.  Version 2.0 that I've got requires
you to write the data into a special format file, and run the spin program
on that.

I'm very satisfied with it for the price; I wouldn't mind a more capable one,
though.  For example, it's 3-D only - no projections from higher dimensions,
"grand tours", etc.

Duncan Murdoch