writeASY {rgl}R Documentation

Write Asymptote code for an rgl scene

Description

Asymptote is a language for 3D graphics that is highly integrated with LaTeX. This is an experimental function to write an Asymptote program to approximate an rgl scene.

Usage

writeASY(scene = scene3d(),
         title = "scene", 
         outtype = c("pdf", "eps", "asy", "latex", "pdflatex"), 
         prc = TRUE, 
         runAsy = "asy %filename%", 
         defaultFontsize = 12,
         width = 7, height = 7,
         ppi = 100,
         ids = NULL)

Arguments

scene

rgl scene object

outtype

What type of file to write? See Details.

prc

Whether to produce an interactive PRC scene.

title

The base of the filename to produce.

runAsy

Code to run the Asymptote program.

defaultFontsize

The default fontsize for text.

width, height

Width and height of the output image, in inches.

ppi

“Pixels per inch” to assume when converting line widths and point sizes (which rgl measures in pixels).

ids

If not NULL, write out just these rgl objects.

Details

Asymptote is both a language describing a 2D or 3D graphic, and a program to interpret that language and produce output in a variety of formats including EPS, PDF (interactive or static), etc.

The interactive scene produced with prc = TRUE requires outtype = "pdf", and (as of this writing) has a number of limitations:

Value

The filename of the output file is returned invisibly.

Note

This function is currently under development and limited in the quality of output it produces. Arguments will likely change.

There are a number of differences between the interactive display in Asymptote and the display in rgl. In particular, many objects that are a fixed size in rgl will scale with the image in Asymptote. Defaults have been chosen somewhat arbitrarily; tweaking will likely be needed.

Material properties of surfaces are not yet implemented.

Author(s)

Duncan Murdoch

References

J. C. Bowman and A. Hammerlindl (2008). Asymptote: A vector graphics language, TUGBOAT: The Communications of the TeX Users Group, 29:2, 288-294.

See Also

scene3d saves a copy of a scene to an R variable; writeWebGL, writePLY, writeOBJ and writeSTL write the scene to a file in various other formats.

Examples

x <- rnorm(20)
y <- rnorm(20)
z <- rnorm(20)
plot3d(x, y, z, type = "s", col = "red")
setwd(tempdir())
writeASY(title = "interactive")  # Produces interactive.pdf
writeASY(title = "noninteractive", prc = FALSE) # Produces noninteractive.pdf

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