Hi all,
I was thinking of including some 3D charts on a little quantitative finance framework I am working on in my spare time.  I don't want to achieve any avant garde 3D things, something that resembles what spreadsheets do would be fine.
I found the Balloon3D framework, that seems to be really fabulous.   Although I had a bit of trouble installing and running some of the examples.
I have no previous experience whatsoever in 3D graphics, so my questions are: 
- What are the best sources to learn about Balloon3D? 
- Maybe some other pointers to learn the general basics of 3D graphics.  But again, I don't want to become an expert on this matter, I would like to know enough to work well with the existing tools.

Thanks !


r