Monash Biomedical Imaging, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia ; Monash e-Research Centre, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia ; Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia.
PLoS One. 2013 Sep 25;8(9):e69446. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0069446. eCollection 2013.
With the latest release of the S2PLOT graphics library, embedding interactive, 3-dimensional (3-d) scientific figures in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files is simple, and can be accomplished without commercial software. In this paper, we motivate the need for embedding 3-d figures in scholarly articles. We explain how 3-d figures can be created using the S2PLOT graphics library, exported to Product Representation Compact (PRC) format, and included as fully interactive, 3-d figures in PDF files using the movie15 LaTeX package. We present new examples of 3-d PDF figures, explain how they have been made, validate them, and comment on their advantages over traditional, static 2-dimensional (2-d) figures. With the judicious use of 3-d rather than 2-d figures, scientists can now publish, share and archive more useful, flexible and faithful representations of their study outcomes. The article you are reading does not have embedded 3-d figures. The full paper, with embedded 3-d figures, is recommended and is available as a supplementary download from PLoS ONE (File S2).
随着最新版本的 S2PLOT 图形库的发布，将交互式三维（3D）科学图形嵌入 Adobe 可移植文档格式（PDF）文件变得非常简单，而且无需商业软件即可完成。在本文中，我们将说明在学术文章中嵌入 3D 图形的必要性。我们将解释如何使用 S2PLOT 图形库创建 3D 图形，将其导出为产品表示紧凑（PRC）格式，并使用 movie15 LaTeX 包将其作为完全交互式的 3D 图形嵌入 PDF 文件中。我们将展示新的 3D PDF 图形示例，解释它们是如何制作的，验证它们，并讨论它们相对于传统的静态二维（2D）图形的优势。通过明智地使用 3D 图形而不是 2D 图形，科学家现在可以发布、分享和存档更有用、更灵活和更忠实于他们研究成果的表示形式。你正在阅读的文章没有嵌入 3D 图形。带有嵌入式 3D 图形的完整论文，建议从 PLoS ONE （文件 S2）下载。
