JavaView provides an integrated viewer and geometry toolbox for
Mathematica graphics. JavaView 3.0 understands most
Mathematica graphics types and viewing options, and it is capable of
providing user feedback such as pick information back into a Mathematica
notebook session. For example, user events like picking with a mouse or
dragging a vertex in a JavaView display may be caught by a Mathematica
notebook and used as 2d or 3d input parameters.
Some application areas of the tight integration of Mathematica and
JavaView:
- View any Mathematica graphics and animation in a JavaView
display
- Add transparency, texture and smooth shading to Mathematica
graphics
- Receive pick information from JavaView into a Mathematica
notebook
- Interactive web pages with Mathematica graphics
- Apply advanced algorithms of JavaView to extend Mathematica's
rich set of algorithms
- Export a Mathematica graphics into different file formats
like Vrml, Stl ...
- Full scripting of JavaView from a Mathematica notebook with
J/Link
- Create interactive web services with webMathematica and MSPJavaView[]
Our JavaView
enhanced webMathematica site has moved to Freie Universität Berlin. This
Compare Mathematica Graphics in JavaView
The following links provide a complete comparison of the rendering
quality in JavaView and Mathematica where each Mathematica graphics
type and graphics options is rendered in a JavaView applet, and then
compared to the original Mathematica picture on a separate page.
A quick overview provides the gallery with static images of
Mathematica graphics and options rendered in JavaView.
Graphics Types and Options
The static images of the gallery appear as interactive applets in the
subsequent web pages below. Each of the following pages contains a large
number applets and is intended for developers only.
- Introduction to Graphics
Objects and Primitives
- Working with Graphics
Objects and Primitives
- Working with Graphics
Packages
- Working with Graphics3D
Packages
- Working with Basic Options
- Working with 3D Options
- Working with Advanced
Options
NOTE: If you are using a Sun JVM and encounter that some applets are not
loaded, then ensure that your virtual machine has enough memory allocated.
For example, on Windows XP use System Control -> Java Plugin and add the
Java runtime parameter "-Xmx256m" without parantheses to reserve 256MB main
memory for the JVM.
WebMathematica and JavaView
JavaView is a featured webMathematica site of Wolfram Research.
Our JavaView
enhanced webMathematica site includes many examples on the integration of webMathematica
and JavaView More examples are given at the
example section at Wolfram Research.
Example: JavaView in a Notebook
Use JavaView within a Mathematica notebook to view graphics
geometries. Start with the tutorial notebook
Overview.nb which comes with the download package. The demonstration web pages
above were generated from the notebooks
Sample_JavaView.nb and
Sample_JavaView_GraphicOptions.nb.
<<JavaView`JLink`
InstallJavaView[];
cube = Graphics3D[Cuboid[{0, 0, 0}, {5, 2, 1}]];
JavaView[cube];
Make graphics transparent, apply texture or invoke other visualization
tools of JavaView directly from a Mathematica notebook:
geom = JavaView[cube];
geom@showTransparency[True];
geom@setTransparency[0.4];
geom@update[geom]
A list of graphics objects may be animated in JavaView:
cubeAnim = Table[Graphics3D[
Cuboid[10{Random[], Random[], Random[]}]], {20}];
JavaView[cubeAnim, Animatable->True];
Create a web page displaying a Mathematica graphics in a JavaView
applet:
WriteHtml[cubeAnim, "myAnim.html"];
The JavaView package for Mathematica is available at the
download section.
