3 ms·

LucasVB is another great contributor with some fantastic animations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:LucasVB/Gallery https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Lucas

LucasVB is another great contributor with some fantastic animations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:LucasVB/Gallery https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:LucasVB/Gallery Two personal favorites are: Line integral of a scalar field: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Line_integral_of_scalar_field.gif https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Line_integral_of_scalar_f... and Fourier Transform: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Fourier_transform_time_and_frequency_domains.gif https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Fourier_transform_time_an...

pen2l 9y ago
What software are these folks using to produce these images/animations?
- scrooched_moose 9y ago
  From his tumblr: http://1ucasvb.tumblr.com/faq http://1ucasvb.tumblr.com/faq: The 3D stuff (with shadows and such) was created using the excellent, free raytracer POV-Ray. The rest were created using a custom-made PHP library that uses GD for graphics. The library adds a whole lot of functionality that isn’t present in GD or PHP: drawing anything with alpha blending, geometry and math primitives, 2D and 3D rotations (including quaternions), better anti-aliasing, object-oriented interface, etc.
  - davidy123 9y ago
    I find it disappointing that even in the litany of alternate technologies tried, there's no reference to using Web technologies, so these animations could be interactive. Obviously the author's choice, but some could benefit now and going forward.
- emacsgifs 9y ago
  David appears to use CaRMetal https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CaRMetal https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CaRMetal CaRMetal - Wikipedia BTW, even if that's not the case, I've found CaRMetal exceptionally useful for drawing similar constructions.
- tehsauce 9y ago
  Going to shamelessly plug my interactive viewer for n-dimensional geometry, demoed here with a tesseract. http://transdimensional.xyz/ http://transdimensional.xyz/ Each column is a slider that previews rotation of each axis. Drag them. Made with threejs/webgl

pen2l 9y ago

What software are these folks using to produce these images/animations?

scrooched_moose 9y ago
From his tumblr: http://1ucasvb.tumblr.com/faq http://1ucasvb.tumblr.com/faq: The 3D stuff (with shadows and such) was created using the excellent, free raytracer POV-Ray. The rest were created using a custom-made PHP library that uses GD for graphics. The library adds a whole lot of functionality that isn’t present in GD or PHP: drawing anything with alpha blending, geometry and math primitives, 2D and 3D rotations (including quaternions), better anti-aliasing, object-oriented interface, etc.
- davidy123 9y ago
  I find it disappointing that even in the litany of alternate technologies tried, there's no reference to using Web technologies, so these animations could be interactive. Obviously the author's choice, but some could benefit now and going forward.
emacsgifs 9y ago
David appears to use CaRMetal https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CaRMetal https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CaRMetal CaRMetal - Wikipedia BTW, even if that's not the case, I've found CaRMetal exceptionally useful for drawing similar constructions.
tehsauce 9y ago
Going to shamelessly plug my interactive viewer for n-dimensional geometry, demoed here with a tesseract. http://transdimensional.xyz/ http://transdimensional.xyz/ Each column is a slider that previews rotation of each axis. Drag them. Made with threejs/webgl