On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 8:02 PM, Michail Vidiassov <master@iaas.msu.ru>wrote:

> Dear Luigi,
>
> On Fri, 5 Jun 2009, luigi scarso wrote:
>
>       a draft for an analog of LaTeX movie15 package for including Adobe
>> Reader
>>      compatible 3d models into PDF files is at
>>
>> hi michael
>> some time ago Renaud Aubin discover
>> http://meshlab.sourceforge.net/
>> 2008-11-22 19:132008-11-22 18:13 +100UTC
>> Re: [NTG-context] embedding 3d pdf
>>
>
> Sorry, I fail to understand your comment.
>
ah, it's not a comment at all.
Just to keep 3d things under the same subject

>
> On one hand, MeshLab can convert from other 3D formats to U3D (older Adobe
> format) and embed U3D into PDF files via LaTeX with movie15 package, thus
> it may be useful in 3D PDF workflow in general, on the other hand it does
> not have anything to do with ConTeXt.
>


>
>
> While MeshLab may be of great use if you have to convert old data or
> process output from some existing tool, in cases when you make your model
> from scratch by hand or create 3D model file in your own program Asymptote
> may be a better choice since it supports newer PRC 3D format, that is much
> richer in features and has better prospects when it comes to support and
> development by Adobe. On the minus side Asymptote is under active
> development and some of its advantages are not there yet - but so is
> ConTeXt.
>
yes just now with blender
http://www.blender.org/features-gallery/features/
and meshlib
one can (in theory) embed 3d models
using
\executesystemcommand
and your macros.
BTW
I'm not aware of any opensource tools (apart asymptote)
that are PRC 3D-able: do you ?


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>        Sincerely,, Michail
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luigi