Render 3D-Body

[Jonas Huckestein]

Good Evening,

I currently have a perl script which (basically) creates polygons and saves
them to images using the gd library. Now I would like to "stack" these
polygons onto eachother (with some padding in between) and then connect
them to form a body.

Which module can you recommend to display that sort of
"stacked-polygons-body"? I might add, that I would like to be able to turn
the body and view it from all around.

In other words, I have a "model" of something, given by a set of group and
edges and need to display it in a 3d-environment.

Any help is greatly appreciated!
Thank's in advance,

Jonas

 

[Guest]

: Which module can you recommend to display that sort of
: "stacked-polygons-body"? I might add, that I would like to be able to turn
: the body and view it from all around.

: In other words, I have a "model" of something, given by a set of group and
: edges and need to display it in a 3d-environment.

Did you have a look at VRML? Did you search cpan.org for VRML? Some modules
there might do what you need.

Oliver.

 

[Jonas Huckestein]

Hey Oliver,

.... gee, thanks! I knew I didn't think of something important. The format is
absolutely what I need!

Does anyone know how to create simple VRML-scenes from perl? On CPAN there
is only very little documentation for the modules. I assume that I need the
VRML module, right? Then I sort of feed VRML my points and edges and use a
VRML-Browser to view the result?

Regards,
Jonas

 

[Peter Scott]

Does anyone know how to create simple VRML-scenes from perl? On CPAN
there is only very little documentation for the modules. I assume that I
need the VRML module, right? Then I sort of feed VRML my points and
edges and use a VRML-Browser to view the result?

When I was doing VRML I had to read the standard constantly. Looks like
you can find it now at
http://tecfa.unige.ch/guides/vrml/vrml2/spec/index.html . Get a VRML
plugin for your browser and view a couple of examples and you'll get the
idea.