3D curves texturing between mathematica and thinbasic

[zak]

Wolfram Research is partnering with NVIDIA to integrate GPU programming into Mathematica.
this is the latest news from wolfram mathematica:
http://blog.wolfram.com/2010/09/14/m...fferent-light/
also look at the video link in that page.
look also the article:
http://blog.wolfram.com/2010/09/20/t...n-mathematica/

it planned to utilize nvidia cards in the mathematica in the next version 8
in the article "Twisted Pictures":
http://blog.wolfram.com/2010/09/01/twisted-pictures/
the author was playing in an experimetal v8, he show that the new version enable the user to texture a 3d curve like this:


to produce the result as in the above article.

i remembered the Petr example waterpatch in "Height of ground, how to get this":
http://www.thinbasic.com/community/s...ow-to-get-this
and the more advanced:
http://community.thinbasic.com/index...27012#msg27012

it is possible to texture a curve in thinbasic: here is the same Petr example, i just replaced the original 3d curve by a 3d ripple curve , it should produce this image:
attachment1.jpg

you can find more 3d curves from here:
http://www.benjoffe.com/code/tools/functions3d/examples
also test your curves here:
http://www.benjoffe.com/code/tools/functions3d/
and since the model x and z go from -3 to 3 and our example go from -1 to 1 so we have passed x,z to returnY as returnY(x/3,z/3), correct me Petr if i am wrong, i have some ambiguity here.

other interesting curve is what produced A letter, just uncomment the suitable line to make it appear like this:
attachment2.jpg

attached the same Petr example with the new equations.
if you don't want the animation just delete gFrameTime/600

PS: added with_tiger_skin other example, you will feel as if the skin of the tiger almost about to tear. if you want one piece of skin convert it like the other examples.

[Petr Schreiber]

Hi Zak,

thanks a lot for sharing, it looks very good! I like it very much, the A letter is great

With thinBasic it would be also possible to perform the computation on GPU, as I translated the OpenCL headers.
The problem is that this approach needs new card and even newer drivers


Petr