[lbo-talk] help with 3D computer graphics anyone?

[Alan Rudy]

Thanks for that, many are quite good.
But, umm... you sent me to a site related to icanhascheezeburger.com...
really?!?!?!?
;-)
I use bar graphs and charts in my teaching a good bit, but my theoretical
stuff's only really amenable to vennishness...
As always, I am frustrated by MS Office's Venn's 'cuz I can't carve out or
play with the overlaps... or I can't figure out how to do so after years of
trying.
-A

On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 10:07 AM, ravi <ravi at platosbeard.org> wrote:


> On Apr 11, 2009, at 9:12 AM, Alan Rudy wrote:
>
>> For all sorts of reasons, probably tied to the fact that my dad was a
>> physicist and I was raised in the era of "the new math", I am far far too
>> fond of Venn Diagrams... especially those of the three circles in
>> triangular
>> formation.
>>
>
>
> I know the feeling.
>
> http://graphjam.com/
>
> ;-)
>
>
>  What I am dreaming of is an ability to turn the circles into spheres and
>> to
>> be able to rotate the image in 3D or stack/layer 2D diagrams or... you get
>> the drift.
>>
>
>
> I don't know of any tool that turns Venn diagrams 3-D, but Google had some
> good free 3-D rendering tools (not SketchUp, but something else)... I will
> let you know if I think of something else... there are these days a lot of
> online spreadsheeting/charting tools that you can use to create bar charts,
> etc... I am not sure if they would suit your needs.
>
>        --ravi
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