Source: Dieter Loeschky

Category: Charts

Product Requirement:
Chart: Simple 3d look

Customer Need/Problem:

3d charts imported by competing office productivity suites look different on
import into OOo.

Product Concept:

The 3d charts in competing applications in general have a different look than
our 3d charts.  Especially the perspective and shading in competing applications
charts are less realistic.  In contrast, reading values in an competing
applications 3d chart is probably easier.  For this different pseudo 3d look
there was recently integrated functionality into the 3d drawing engine.  This
will be usefull if we introduce an additional look to our 3d charts.  It is not
intended to skip our old look but to offer the pseudo 3d look in addition. 
Charts imported from competing applications will get the pseudo look while newly
generated charts should still be created in our old 3d look by default.

Functional Specification:

there will be an additional property at some of the 2d charts (bar, column and
area) that switch the visual apperance from standard 2d to pseudo 3d.  For the
3d look we will use the auto-shapes that are currently being implemented in the
drawing layer.