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A number of commercial software packages for generating three-dimensional graphics are available, but some useful features are missing from most of these products. The StageTools modules for Geomview try to fill this gap by including such features as interactive controls (sliders, type-in areas, check-boxes, etc.), an object-oriented approach to geometry allowing one object to be based on another (e.g., a tube around a curve), hierarchical grouped objects, objects in arbitrary dimensions with easily specified projections and transformations, and sophisticated scripting capabilities for creating electronic movie clips.
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Cervone, D.P. (2002). The StageTools Package for Creating Geometry for the Web. In: Borwein, J., Morales, M.H., Rodrigues, J.F., Polthier, K. (eds) Multimedia Tools for Communicating Mathematics. Mathematics and Visualization. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-56240-2_5
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