Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ames!indri!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!leah!rpi!batcomputer!sandell From: sandell@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Gregory Sandell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Advice wanted for 3D software Message-ID: <8616@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> Date: 14 Aug 89 03:29:32 GMT References: <14990@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> Reply-To: sandell@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Gregory Sandell) Organization: Cornell Theory Center, Cornell University, Ithaca NY Lines: 14 In article <14990@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> thomas@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Thomas Summerall) writes: >I'm considering purchasing a 3d package and am looking for some user reaction. You don't say what you want to use it for...do you need a 3d plotting system for CAD, say? If on the other hand you are looking for ways to plot data (statistics) I can recommend the following: SYSDAT's plotting package SYGRAPH, and Mathmatica. Both will let you plot nice 3-D perspective plots. SYGRAPH gives you the ability to label data points, and Mathmatica can do animated plots. Another package, DataDesk, lets you do 3D "constellation" plots that you can easily rotate, expand and contract. But it doesn't let you label data points in any really USEFUL way. Greg Sandell