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**Using Interactivity to express 3D information in 2D**
The web as a publishing platform allows authors to include graphics that move. While stereoscopic 3D
PDF viewing on 2D surfaces is
possible (and improving), cognition research shows that presently the best way for humans to understand 3D geometry on a
standard fully supported 2D screen is to be able to manipulate 3D perspective views dynamically, so as to simulate views created by
moving around in real space.
As is the case with video or audio, many formats are available for presenting 3D graphics online, and a good publisher should advertise which of those will be supported and migrated in the future. Also as is the case with audio/video, the present _de-facto _standard, PDF, supports 3D objects in the Adobe
within PDF
itself. It environment. Acrobat's 3D functionality allows for a selectable sequence of views of embedded 3D objects, in which each view can have a subset of objects visible from a given vantage point.
As the The first interactive 3D PDF was published in a major joural (_Nature_) in 2009 Nature\cite{2009Natur.457...63G}, and a limited number others have appeared in major scientific publiscations since \cite[e.g.][]{2012ARA&A..50..491P}.
The tools for
creating _creating_ 3D PDFs were spun off from Adobe itself a few years ago,
so presently, it
had become somewhat can be cumbersome to generate such figures. A [tutorial](http://www.astrobetter.com/tutorial-for-embedding-3d-interactive-graphics-into-pdf/) now exists that allows a user to generate a PDF with a 3D figure using LaTeX tools.
PDF has the advantage of offering a printable equivalent of an onscreen document, but it is not clear for how much longer a printable version take precedence over intereactive features.
Nature figure screen shots from \cite{2009Natur.457...63G} see also \cite{2012ARA&A..50..491P}.