Mathematica & C Home Page

This is the WWW support page for the software related with ``Mathematica und C in der modernen Theoretischen Physik'' and other useful stuff for Mathematica

Look at the new MathGL3d site and download the new versions for MS-Windows, Linux, SPARC/Solaris and Silcon Graphics (IRIX 6.5)

The new version include full support for transparence, transparent textures.

RenderMan RIB export.

Interactive 3d contour extraction with improved polygon reduction. The new MVContourPlot3D[] function can find and render more than 50000 polygons/second. This allow a realtime adjustment of the contour value for 128 x 128 x128 PlotPoints. MVContourPlot[] can reduce the computed polygons to improve the performance of the interactive rendering.

The TIFF bitmaps can be now saved and the PostScript bitmap export can be compressed.

Smaller POVRay output files with help of some POVRay macros

ChromaDepth stereograms can be pasted direct into the notebook. The eye glasses from Chromatek are needed to see the 3d effect.

Realtime polygon shape switching, to make polygons hollow, show some gaps or clip the polygon corners. The size of points and lines can changed interactive. A 3d cursor can be moved to locate points in the scene.

Full camera control to adjust ViewPoint, ViewCenter and ViewVertical.

The old version for Mathematica 3.0 is still here MathGl3d .

ISBN3-540-61489-3

The book is in german and covers classical mechanics, chaotic dynamical systems, electrostatic and quantum mechanics. I bases on my computational physics lectures held at the Humboldt-Universität Berlin. It comes with packages for Mathematica 3.0 and 7 MathLink programs for the numerical solution of the one and two dimensional Schrödinger equation, Rydberg atoms, electrostatic field lines, equipotential surfaces, Poincare sections and classical mechanics. Many Mathematica session show how Mathematica can replace paper and pencil in physical calculations.  The book will not only show how Mathematica can be used as a tool for analytical computations. The C-programs show how to use MathLink for numerical calculations and how to turn analytical results in running programs. Visit the Springer-Verlag to read more about this book (german).

The Macintosh file tree with the packages and Power Mac binaries (600 kByte) can be downloaded from here.

• More about the cover picture. This page contain ca 220 kByte animated GIF's and may need some loading time.
• MathGL3d the interactive 3D viewer for Mathematica with an interface to POVRay. MathGL3D is the only free available OpenGL viewer for Mathematicas 3D graphics for Unix and MS-Windows 95/NT and Macintosh. It can run as standalone program and as MathLink client. It is not only a interactive viewer it serves also as an interface to other 3d rendering programs.
• Read and write Portable Network Graphics bitmaps into the kernel of Mathematica, the update package and MathLink binary now work with Mathematicas Export[]/Import[] functions
• the LSystem.m package where original posted to the Mathematica news group. The updated version supports colors directives in the strings. The format of the strings is taken from the popular fractint program
• Updates, bug fixes for the book packages
• Links

Virtual TeX fonts (95 kByte for download) to use the symbols in the Mathematica PostScript fonts together with the most powerful typesetting system. The package comes with a LaTeX2e style file and manual that explain how to install the fonts. The fonts and the symbol names are now supported by Mathematicas TeXSave[] command. The changes from my original submission are, that I fixed some font dimension parameters for exponent and index placement. The update fonts can be found on MathSource as well. Many thanks to Jaiyong Lee for it's continued bug submission and helpful comments.

Links

Mathematica 

• the Mathematica home page
• MathSource the electronic resource for Mathematica
• Roman Mäders MathConsult site.
• The Mathematica Journal

TeX and CWeb

• Dante the german TeX user club
• Get the latest version of D. E Knuth and S. Levy's CWeb system. The programs in the book as well as MathGL3d is written in CWeb.
• MiKTeX for MS-Windows

RayTracing and 3D Graphics

• POVRay -- Persistence of Vision ray tracer
• Blue Moon Rendering Tools
• OpenGL graphics
• The OpenGL Graphics Library Utility Toolkit GLUT
• Mesa3D graphics, a API similar to OpenGL but free
• more information on Portable Network Graphics (PNG) file format
• GLUI library, a OpenGL based user interface

The Mathematica Web Ring

Students (German only)

Seminar Digitale Informationsverarbeitung

Praktikum Bild- und Signalverarbeitung in der Medizin

Seminar Bild- und Signalverarbeitung I

Seminar Bildverarbeitung II SS2003

Mehr zur OpenGL-Vorlesung im Sommersemester 2004

Mehr zur Visualisierungs-Vorlesung im Wintersemester 2003/2004

Mehr zr Vorlesung Mathematische Methoden der Bildverarbeitung Wintersemester 2003/2004/

Kurze Einführung in POVRay [pdf]

Other Useful Links

The following links are not related with Mathematica or computer graphics.

Universität Leipzig

Computer Graphics - Image Processing - Visualization at the university Leipzig

My adress phone, FAX

last change 8/12/99