You can add animations to move the camera’s position, or its zoom say, in exactly the same way and create a “fly past” but to make it look impressive you will need more than a single cube and this is the start of a very big project…
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The complete program is (omitting the usual using statements):
using System.Windows.Media.Media3D; using System.Windows.Media.Animation;namespace Cube1 { /// <summary> /// Interaction logic for MainWindow.xaml /// </summary> public partial class MainWindow : Window { public MainWindow() { InitializeComponent(); } MeshGeometry3D MCube() { MeshGeometry3D cube = new MeshGeometry3D(); Point3DCollection corners = new Point3DCollection(); corners.Add(new Point3D(0.5, 0.5, 0.5)); corners.Add(new Point3D(-0.5, 0.5, 0.5)); corners.Add(new Point3D(-0.5, -0.5, 0.5)); corners.Add(new Point3D(0.5, -0.5, 0.5)); corners.Add(new Point3D(0.5, 0.5, -0.5)); corners.Add(new Point3D(-0.5, 0.5, -0.5)); corners.Add(new Point3D(-0.5, -0.5, -0.5)); corners.Add(new Point3D(0.5, -0.5, -0.5)); cube.Positions = corners;
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