Orthogonal Slices: Visualizaton Tools and the Draw  Menu Options for

VCR Tool:

By selecting Tools VCR, a VCR control widget is exposed for recording and playback (see Figure 18). This widget has icons to open a tape (i.e. a directory), record, playback, frame advance, and continuous looping. Images are stored in `rgb' or `ppm' image format in the specified directory.

Figure 18: VCR Control Widget

The images are automatically sequenced as they are recorded and a file is kept in that directory of all key-frame information. For an example of an MPEG movie generated by G3D using DataSet2.g3d  of Tutorial #1, see `http://www.math.sc.edu/USC_PICS_4a.html'

or download the file `ftp://ftp.math.sc.edu/sharpley/outgoing/Movies/ConNew.mpg'