S2PLOT:3dPDF

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Contents 1 3d-PDF: Embedding S2PLOT Content in PDF Documents 1.1 Requirements 1.2 VRML export from S2PLOT 1.3 VRML import to Acrobat 3D 1.4 Enabling standard S2PLOT interaction 1.5 Billboards, volume rendering and frame animation 1.6 Going further

3d-PDF: Embedding S2PLOT Content in PDF Documents

Since version 2.02, S2PLOT has been able to write the displayed geometry to a VRML 97 format file. This format was selected as it can be read in by Adobe Acrobat 3D and embedded in Portable Document Format (PDF) files. Modern versions of Adobe Reader can then render the 3-d model interactively, allowing the reader to view the 3-d scene from any angle or distance. Individual parts of the model can be turned on and off by explicit user control (eg. toggling the display of axis labels) or by implicit programmatic control (eg. toggling the selected set of slices for display as a volume rendering).

The 3-d PDF capabilities of S2PLOT are documented in this paper:

• Barnes, D.G., Fluke, C.J., 2008, Incorporating interactive 3-dimensional graphics in astronomy research papers, New Astronomy, 13, 599. For interactive figures, please download paper from here. (ADS) - arXiv:0709.2734.

Here, we describe in detail the steps required to add S2PLOT content to PDF files.

Requirements

VRML export from S2PLOT

VRML import to Acrobat 3D

Enabling standard S2PLOT interaction

Billboards, volume rendering and frame animation

Going further