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scene3d {rgl} | R Documentation

## Saves the current scene to a variable, and displays such variables.

### Description

This function saves a large part of the RGL state associated with the current window to a variable.

### Usage

    scene3d()
    ## S3 method for class 'rglscene'
    plot3d(x, add = FALSE, ...)
    ## S3 method for class 'rglobject'
    plot3d(x, ...)
    ## S3 method for class 'rglscene'
    print(x, ...)
    ## S3 method for class 'rglobject'
    print(x, ...)

### Arguments

`x` | An object of class `"rglscene"`
`add` | Whether to open a new window, or add to the existing one.
`...` | Additional parameters, currently ignored.

### Details

The components saved are: the `par3d` settings, the `material3d` settings, the `bg3d` settings, the lights and the objects in the scene.

In most cases, calling `plot3d` on that variable will duplicate the scene. (There are likely to be small differences, mostly internal, but some aspects of the scene are not currently available.) If textures are used, the name of the texture will be saved, rather than the contents of the texture file.

Other than saving the code to recreate a scene, saving the result of `scene3d` to a file will allow it to be reproduced later most accurately. In roughly decreasing order of fidelity, `writeWebGL`, `writePLY`, `writeOBJ` and `writeSTL` write the scene to a file in formats readable by other software.

### Value

The `scene3d` function returns an object of class `"rglscene"`. This is a list with some or all of the components:

`material` | The results returned from a `material3d` call.
`rootSubscene` | A list containing information about the main ("root") subscene. This may include: id The scene id. type "subscene" par3d The `par3d` settings for the subscene. embeddings The `subsceneInfo()$embeddings` for the main subscene. objects The ids for objects in the subscene. subscenes A recursive list of child subscenes.
`objects` | A list containing the RGL lights, background and objects in the scene.

The objects in the `objects` component are of class `"rglobject"`. They are lists containing some or all of the components

`id` | The RGL identifier of the object in the original scene.
`type` | A character variable identifying the type of object.
`material` | Components of the material that differ from the scene material.
`vertices, normals, etc.` | Any of the attributes of the object retrievable by `rgl.attrib`.
`ignoreExtent` | A logical value indicating whether this object contributes to the bounding box. Currently this may differ from the object in the original scene.
`objects` | Sprites may contain other objects; they will be stored here as a list of `"rglobject"`s.

Lights in the scene are stored similarly, mixed into the `objects` list.

The `plot3d` methods invisibly return a vector of RGL object ids that were plotted. The `print` methods invisibly return the object that was printed.

### Author(s)

Duncan Murdoch

### See Also

`writeWebGL`, `writePLY`, `writeOBJ` and `writeSTL` write the scene to a file in various formats.

### Examples

    open3d()
    z <- 2 * volcano        # Exaggerate the relief
    x <- 10 * (1:nrow(z))   # 10 meter spacing (S to N)
    y <- 10 * (1:ncol(z))   # 10 meter spacing (E to W)
    persp3d(x, y, z, col = "green3", aspect = "iso")

    s <- scene3d()
    # Make it bigger
    s$par3d$windowRect <- 1.5*s$par3d$windowRect
    # and draw it again
    plot3d(s)

[Package rgl version 0.99.9 Index]