VRML changing in time(?)

[Tim Hutton]

That'll be a 3d animation. I would love to see some support in vtk for this
kind of thing, for visualising a simulation for example. Are play, pause,
rewind buttons plus a time slider too much to ask? Plus the ability to
output the rendered sequence to an avi...? 

Would need quite a lot of thought I think, the time-line would have to
consist of a set of transformations for the actors or the geometry, plus
actors being added and removed. Perhaps if the simulation code (or the time
data) could be collected into a fully computed time-line then the vtk
interactor could take over and let the user play with the results.

I've been thinking this would be nice for some time, does anybody else
think this would be useful?

Cheers,

Tim.

At 16:48 18/05/00 +1000, you wrote:
>help, i dont even know what its called what i would like to do. I have data
>on 3d objects though time, and so i can create a 3d rendered scene at each
>time point. So, what i would like to do is to create a 'movie' of this, with
>the ability to stop at undetermined time points, and then interact with the
>image at that time (ie zoom, pan rotate, the usual things); and then
>continue on thru time. Does vtk support this, or do i creat a vrml file at
>each time and use some sort of vrml player? Any info, hints ideas greatly
>welcomed.
>
>Thanks
>
>Mark Palmer
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