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This paper presents IZIC, a stand-alone high-quality 3D graphic tool driven by a command language. IZIC is an interactive version of ZICLIB, a 3D graphic library allowing efficient curve and surface manipulations using a virtual graphic device. Capabilities of ZICLIB include management of pseudo or true colors, illumination model, shading, transparency, etc. As an interactive tool, IZIC is run as a Unix server which can be driven from one or more Computer Algebra Systems, including Maple, Mathematica, and Ulysse, or through an integrated user interface such as CAS/PI. Connecting IZIC with a different system is a very simple task which can be achieved at run-time and require no compilation. Also important is the possibility to drive IZIC both through its freely-reconfigurable menus-buttons user interface, and through its command language, allowing for instance the animation of surfaces in a very flexible way.
SAFIR is a common project to INRIA, Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis, and CNRS.
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Fournier, R., Kajler, N., Mourrain, B. (1993). IZIC: a portable language-driven tool for mathematical surfaces visualization. In: Miola, A. (eds) Design and Implementation of Symbolic Computation Systems. DISCO 1993. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 722. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0013188
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