rgl.postscript: export screenshot

Description

Saves the screenshot to a file in PostScript or other vector graphics format.

Usage

rgl.postscript( filename, fmt="eps", drawText=TRUE )

Arguments

filename

full path to filename.

fmt

export format, currently supported: ps, eps, tex, pdf, svg, pgf

drawText

logical, whether to draw text

Details

Animations can be created in a loop modifying the scene and saving a screenshot to a file. (See example below)

This function is a wrapper for the GL2PS library by Christophe Geuzaine, and has the same limitations as that library: not all OpenGL features are supported, and some are only supported in some formats. See the reference for full details.

References

GL2PS: an OpenGL to PostScript printing library by Christophe Geuzaine, http://www.geuz.org/gl2ps/, version 1.3.2.

Examples

Run this code

x <- y <- seq(-10,10,length=20)
z <- outer(x,y,function(x,y) x^2 + y^2)
persp3d(x,y,z, col='lightblue')

title3d("Using LaTeX text", col='red', line=3)
rgl.postscript("persp3da.ps","ps",drawText=FALSE)
rgl.postscript("persp3da.pdf","pdf",drawText=FALSE)
rgl.postscript("persp3da.tex","tex")
rgl.pop()
title3d("Using ps/pdf text", col='red', line=3)
rgl.postscript("persp3db.ps","ps")
rgl.postscript("persp3db.pdf","pdf")
rgl.postscript("persp3db.tex","tex",drawText=FALSE)

#
# create a series of frames for an animation
#

rgl.open()
shade3d(oh3d(), color="red")
rgl.viewpoint(0,20)

for (i in 1:45) {
  rgl.viewpoint(i,20)
  filename <- paste("pic",formatC(i,digits=1,flag="0"),".eps",sep="") 
  rgl.postscript(filename, fmt="eps")
}