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The 3DXM Consortium is pleased to announce the immediate availability
of Version 1.0 of 3D-XplorMath-J. 3D-XplorMath-J has a homepage at:
http://3d-xplormath.org/j/
and much of the information below can also be found there.
3D-XplorMath-J is a mathematical visualization application, i.e., a
computer program for "seeing" and experimenting with a wide variety of
mathematical objects or "exhibits." A good way to conceptualize the
program is as a Virtual Mathematical Museum---that is an
implementation in software of the collections of physical models of
surfaces, polyhedra, etc., that can still be seen
in display cases of many mathematical institutes. However, because of
its virtual nature it ispossible for it to contain "Galleries" of many
more (and more abstract) kinds of visualizable
mathematical objects, such as Fractals, Dynamical Systems, Waves,
Conformal Maps, etc.
3D-XplorMath-J is written in the Java programming language, and to
use it you should have Java 5.0 or higher installed on your computer.
It is a complete revision of an older Pascal program, 3D-XplorMath,
that runs only on Macintosh computers. While it still lacks some
features and exhibits of the Pascal program, 3D-XplorMath-J, Version
1.0 is ready for serious use and has unique features of its own. In
particular, the Java version has numerous improvements both in the
user interface and in the way that exhibits are presented.
Considerable thought and effort has gone into making 3D-XplorMath-J
easy and intuitive to use. After a Gallery is chosen and an Exhibit is
selected from that Gallery (both by using menus) the program
immediately presents a carefully constructed default view of the
exhibit, after which the user can alter that view by dragging with the
mouse or making various other choices from menus an dialogs. For a
quick introduction to using the program, select the first item in the
Documentation menu, "Getting Started with 3D-XplorMath-J". Each
Gallery is documented in a so-called About This Gallery file,
available through the Documentation menu while the program is running,
and eventually all Exhibits will likewise have an assoiated About This
Exhibit file.
3D-XplorMath-J is available in multiple languages: English, Spanish,
French, German, Italian, Japanese, and Chinese. On a computer that is
set up to use one of the supported languages, the program should
automatically run in that language. (Note, however, that the
translation is as yet incomplete for some languages, and parts of the
program and documentation may be in English.)
3D-XplorMath-J is available in versions for Windows and for Mac OS,
as well as as a "jar" file
that works on all platforms. Note that all versions require Java 5.0
or higher. Use these links to
download the program:
3D-XplorMath-J.exe (Windows) http://3d-xplormath.org/j/3D-XplorMath-J.exe
3D-XplorMath-J.dmg (Mac OS) http://3d-xplormath.org/j/3D-XplorMath-J.dmg
3D-XplorMath-J.jar (any platform) http://3d-xplormath.org/j/3D-XplorMath-J.jar
Concerning the "jar" file: On most computers, this version of the
program can be run just by
double-clicking it. It can also be run on the command line with the
command
java -jar 3D-XplorMath-J.jar
In fact, 3D-XplorMath-J works best if it has access to more memory
than is usually given to Java applications, so it is best to run the
jar file on the command line with a command that asks for extra
memory, such as
java -jar -Xmx256m 3D-XplorMath-J.jar
(The Windows and Mac OS versions automatically request extra
memory.)
If your web browser is Java 5.0 enabled (as most up-to-date ones are
these days) then the
individual exhibits of 3D-XplorMath-J can be used on-line in the form
of "Java applets." A link to the applets can be found on the program's
home page.
3D-XplorMath-J is a free and open-source program and its source code
is released under a BSD license. To browse the source code online, go
to:
http://3d-xplormath.org/j/source/
and to dowload all of it, use:
http://3d-xplormath.org/j/source/3D-XplorMath-J-source.zip
For developers, the Java API documentation can be found (in English
only) at:
http://3d-xplormath.org/j/javadoc/
3D-XplorMath-J is a project of the 3DXM Consortium, an international
volunteer group of
mathematicians supported in part by The National Science Foundation
(DUE Award #0514781).
of Version 1.0 of 3D-XplorMath-J. 3D-XplorMath-J has a homepage at:
http://3d-xplormath.org/j/
and much of the information below can also be found there.
3D-XplorMath-J is a mathematical visualization application, i.e., a
computer program for "seeing" and experimenting with a wide variety of
mathematical objects or "exhibits." A good way to conceptualize the
program is as a Virtual Mathematical Museum---that is an
implementation in software of the collections of physical models of
surfaces, polyhedra, etc., that can still be seen
in display cases of many mathematical institutes. However, because of
its virtual nature it ispossible for it to contain "Galleries" of many
more (and more abstract) kinds of visualizable
mathematical objects, such as Fractals, Dynamical Systems, Waves,
Conformal Maps, etc.
3D-XplorMath-J is written in the Java programming language, and to
use it you should have Java 5.0 or higher installed on your computer.
It is a complete revision of an older Pascal program, 3D-XplorMath,
that runs only on Macintosh computers. While it still lacks some
features and exhibits of the Pascal program, 3D-XplorMath-J, Version
1.0 is ready for serious use and has unique features of its own. In
particular, the Java version has numerous improvements both in the
user interface and in the way that exhibits are presented.
Considerable thought and effort has gone into making 3D-XplorMath-J
easy and intuitive to use. After a Gallery is chosen and an Exhibit is
selected from that Gallery (both by using menus) the program
immediately presents a carefully constructed default view of the
exhibit, after which the user can alter that view by dragging with the
mouse or making various other choices from menus an dialogs. For a
quick introduction to using the program, select the first item in the
Documentation menu, "Getting Started with 3D-XplorMath-J". Each
Gallery is documented in a so-called About This Gallery file,
available through the Documentation menu while the program is running,
and eventually all Exhibits will likewise have an assoiated About This
Exhibit file.
3D-XplorMath-J is available in multiple languages: English, Spanish,
French, German, Italian, Japanese, and Chinese. On a computer that is
set up to use one of the supported languages, the program should
automatically run in that language. (Note, however, that the
translation is as yet incomplete for some languages, and parts of the
program and documentation may be in English.)
3D-XplorMath-J is available in versions for Windows and for Mac OS,
as well as as a "jar" file
that works on all platforms. Note that all versions require Java 5.0
or higher. Use these links to
download the program:
3D-XplorMath-J.exe (Windows) http://3d-xplormath.org/j/3D-XplorMath-J.exe
3D-XplorMath-J.dmg (Mac OS) http://3d-xplormath.org/j/3D-XplorMath-J.dmg
3D-XplorMath-J.jar (any platform) http://3d-xplormath.org/j/3D-XplorMath-J.jar
Concerning the "jar" file: On most computers, this version of the
program can be run just by
double-clicking it. It can also be run on the command line with the
command
java -jar 3D-XplorMath-J.jar
In fact, 3D-XplorMath-J works best if it has access to more memory
than is usually given to Java applications, so it is best to run the
jar file on the command line with a command that asks for extra
memory, such as
java -jar -Xmx256m 3D-XplorMath-J.jar
(The Windows and Mac OS versions automatically request extra
memory.)
If your web browser is Java 5.0 enabled (as most up-to-date ones are
these days) then the
individual exhibits of 3D-XplorMath-J can be used on-line in the form
of "Java applets." A link to the applets can be found on the program's
home page.
3D-XplorMath-J is a free and open-source program and its source code
is released under a BSD license. To browse the source code online, go
to:
http://3d-xplormath.org/j/source/
and to dowload all of it, use:
http://3d-xplormath.org/j/source/3D-XplorMath-J-source.zip
For developers, the Java API documentation can be found (in English
only) at:
http://3d-xplormath.org/j/javadoc/
3D-XplorMath-J is a project of the 3DXM Consortium, an international
volunteer group of
mathematicians supported in part by The National Science Foundation
(DUE Award #0514781).