Saving and Exporting Maple Graphics

Abstract

This chapter is divided into two sections. The first one explains straight-forward methods of saving, editing, and printing images created within Maple. The second section shows how to export numerical data, related to surfaces generated in Maple, to an external renderer. This approach rewards the user with smooth-looking surfaces with a photo-realistic finish. A wide variety of interesting textures can be applied, thus making those surfaces translucent, metallic, highly reflective, patterned, and so on. Furthermore, multiple light sources of different types are available (like spotlights or area lights), and all objects in the plotted scene have proper shadows.