From: John Styles <hpengwyn@cix.compulink.co.uk>
Subject: TECH: Mathematica in VR
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 23:31 GMT



Users of Mathematica will be aware of the fun and games one can have
drawing 3d surfaces (z=f(x,y)) where not only the height but colour,
specular and diffuse reflection may be specified for each polygon. One
can also specify a number of light sources of different colours.
(i.e. I can draw a surface of varying height, colour and reflectivity
and have it lit from a number of points in a number of colours leading
to a pretty bizarre image).

The following thus occur to me:

a) importing such images into a VR environment (I realise that one
can't interact with them a great deal so it's more of a 'fly
through').

b) implemented different colour light sources in a VR package.

c) integrated VR and Mathematica

Thoughts?

John