zane@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Sameer Parekh) (02/24/91)
I don't own an Amiga, but I use one at school, so pardon my ignorance. I am writing a program which will evaluate a mathematical expression of the form: Z = AX + BY + C. (It doesn't have to be only 1st order, it can be Z = AX^2 + BY^2 + C or it can even be Z = X^Y. . .) Anyway, what this program would end up doing is creating an array that is X x Y and each element in the array would be a real number from A - B. What I would like to do is save this surface as a 3-D object that can be loaded into a 3-D object rendering system. Is this at all possible? Thanks. -- zane@ddsw1.MCS.COM
alex@bilver.uucp (Alex Matulich) (02/25/91)
In article <1991Feb24.020419.15694@ddsw1.MCS.COM> zane@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Sameer Parekh) writes: > I am writing a program which will evaluate a mathematical >expression of the form: Z = AX + BY + C. (It doesn't have to be >[...] > What I would like to do is save this surface as a 3-D >object that can be loaded into a 3-D object rendering system. >Is this at all possible? Thanks. Sure. All you have to know is the 3-d object file format specification for your choice of 3-d renedering software. It may be more involved than just saving x,y,z coordinates -- you will probably have to have some extra line definitions to describe how the points are connected, and also surface definitions to describe the surfaces bounded by the lines. -- _ |__ Alex Matulich (alex@bilver.UUCP) /(+__> Unicorn Research Corp, 4621 N Landmark Dr, Orlando, FL 32817 //| \ UUCP: ...uunet!tarpit!bilver!alex ///__) bitnet: IN%"bilver!alex@uunet.uu.net"