3D-XplorMath 10.0

3D-XplorMath 10.0 Publisher's Description:

About 3D-XplorMath
3D-XplorMath (formerly 3D-Filmstrip) is a highly interactive museum for exploring the visual aspects of the exciting and beautiful universe of mathematical objects and processes. It has been under continual development for over ten years by an international team of renowned mathematical researchers and educators, who originally perfected it for their own use in teaching and research, but have recently been working hard to make it easy and enjoyable to use by anyone who has mathematical curiosity and an appreciation for the visual and logical beauty of math. 3D-XplorMath differs from programs such as Mathematica, Maple, and Matlab that, while providing visualization back-ends for viewing objects, require the user to first program the object and its visualization. 3D-XplorMath emphasizes ease of use and does not even require the user to have a pre-existing knowledge of the mathematical definition of an object in order to see it. Every mathematical object in its massive collection is not only pre-programmed, but also has carefully chosen default parameters and associated animations. Merely selecting a gallery object by its name from a menu presents an excellent initial view of the object. The user may then optionally use simple dialogs, controls, and menu choices to customize and animate the default view, perhaps after first learning about its background by choosing About This Object from the Documentation menu. Users can also create and animate new objects on their own by entering simple algebraic formulas into dialogs. All objects including user defined objects can be saved in several graphic formats, and animations can be saved as QuickTime movies.