Embedding 3D graphics in pdf from Matlab

Embed 3D graphics in pdf from Matlab

Embedding 3D graphics in pdf from Matlab • able to view and navigate 3D plots/graphics • enhance your documents/presentations

Embed 3D graphics in pdf from Matlab

Figure: Some surface plots.

Embed 3D graphics in pdf from Matlab

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(eudiswend2R50.u3d)

Embed 3D graphics in pdf from Matlab

Universal 3D(U3D)

• compressed file format standard for 3D computer graphics

data • file name extension filename.u3d • supported by the pdf format • interactively visualized by Acrobat Reader (since version 7)

Embed 3D graphics in pdf from Matlab

Matlab Figures

U3D file format

LATEX code

What we need: • u3d pre and mesh2pdf packages for Matlab from

Mathworks;1

2

• movie15 package for LATEX

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from any ctan site;3

http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/ 25383-matlab-mesh-to-pdf-with-3d-interactive-object 2 http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/ 27245-generate-vertices-faces-and-color-for-u3d-format 3 http: //www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/movie15.html which provide interface to embed movies, sounds and 3D objects into PDF.

Embed 3D graphics in pdf from Matlab

• Generate 3D graphics in Matlab in a normal figure window

>>[X,Y,Z]=peaks(30); >>surf(X,Y,0.3*Z); • Create a structure of faces and vertices of the 3D surface

>>fvc=u3d pre; • Generate the graphics information

>>mesh to latex(’filename’,fvc.vertices, ... uint32(fvc.faces),fvc.facevertexcdata); • filename.u3d - a u3d file • filename.tex - an example of LATEX

code

Embed 3D graphics in pdf from Matlab

Example of filename.tex: \ begin { center } \ i n c l u d e m o v i e [ p o s t e r , t o o l b a r , l a b e l=f i l e n a m e . u3d , t e x t =( f i l e n a m e . u3d ) , 3 Daac =7 , 3 D r o l l =0, 3 Dc2c =0.000000 1 . 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 . 0 0 0 0 0 0 , 3 Droo =8 6.60254 0 , 3Dcoo=0 0 0 , 3 D l i g h t s=CAD, ] { \ l i n e w i d t h } {\ l i n e w i d t h }{ f i l e n a m e . u3d } \ end { c e n t e r }

Copy the code from filename.tex and paste into your LATEX document where you want the 3D graphic. Remember to add into the preamble \usepackage[3d]{movie15}

Embed 3D graphics in pdf from Matlab

(peaksurf.u3d)

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Figure: Drag your mouse over the graphic.

Embed 3D graphics in pdf from Matlab

(try4.u3d)

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Figure: Drag your mouse over the graphic.

Embed 3D graphics in pdf from Matlab

Nothing is perfect... always!

Weakness of the current mesh2pdf and u3d pre packages: • Only works for surf,mesh,isosurface figures in Matlab,

not for scatter3 figure • can we label it? adding text? (axis?)