An Interactive Presentation of Maple 3D Graphics in PDF Documents

Roman Plch
`plch@math.muni.cz`
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Masaryk University
602 00 Brno, Czech republic

Petra Šarmanová
`petra.sarmanova@vsb.cz`
Department of Applied Mathematics
VŠB - Technical University of Ostrava
708 33 Ostrava, Czech republic

Abstract
The paper presents the authors' experience with including interactive 3D objects into PDF documents, starting with modifying 3D graphics in Maple, followed by its export into the VRML format, then its conversion to U3D with the use of Deep Exploration, and finishing with its embedding into a PDF document by means of pdfTeX and the movie15 package. This procedure preserves the possibility of the user's interaction with 3D objects even in the final PDF document without the necessity of the local installation of Maple or other graphical programs. All supplemental materials that accompany this paper can be found online at the folowing URL:
http://www.math.muni.cz/~plch/eJMT/

Creating 3D animation in U3D [PDF]

Supplemental Resources

Maple 11 Worksheet [MWS] [HTML]

WRL Files [ZIP]

U3D Files [ZIP]

TeX Source [TEX]

PDF Output [PDF]

List of Software

Icon	Name	Web Address
	Deep Exploration	`http://www.righthemisphere.com/products/dexp/de_std.html`
	Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro Extended	`http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobatproextended/`
	Meshlab	`http://meshlab.sourceforge.net/`
	Javaview	`http://www.javaview.de/`
	Maple	`http://www.maplesoft.com/`
	Movie15	`http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/movie15.html`