[NTG-context] 3D PDF support (AKA asymptote support)

[Hans Hagen]

Michail Vidiassov wrote:
> Dear Hans,
> 
> On Fri, 5 Jun 2009, Hans Hagen wrote:
> 
>>> a draft for an analog of LaTeX movie15 package for including Adobe 
>>> Reader
>>> compatible 3d models into PDF files is at
>>
>> i'll have a look at it next week; the interface needs some more 
>> thinking from my side; in principle we should not use externalfigure 
>> here but the rendering mechanism
> 
> BTW, the mechanism ConTeXt uses to include movies (it served me as a 
> starting point) is described in part "13.4 Movies" of PDF 32000-1:2008 
> ISO/Adobe spec, but preceded there with the following note:
>  The features described in this sub-clause are obsolescent and their use
>  is no longer recommended.
>  They are superseded by the general multimedia framework described in
>  13.2, ???Multimedia.???
> 
> Thus even more thinking may be desirable...

well, the multimedia support has been there already for a while in 
context (not documented because when i played with it those parts of 
acrobat reader were not that stable yet) ... (x-res-50 uses some of it)
and it's for this reason that the code sits in cont-new.tex


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