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Path: digifix!not-for-mail From: wisdom@geom.umn.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: Geomview available for NeXTSTEP Date: 14 Aug 1993 15:17:48 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Lines: 49 Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Approved: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <24jdos$4sn@digifix.digifix.com> Geomview for NeXTSEP now available for anonymous ftp from geom.umn.edu:/pub/geomview/geomview-next.tar The initial release of geomview for NeXTSTEP is now available for anonymous ftp from geom.umn.edu. The file is located at /pub/geomview/geomview-next.tar. It is the first version to run on NeXT workstations running NeXTSTEP 3.0. A NeXTSTEP 3.1 version will soon be available in multi-architecture binary form for both NeXT hardware and Intel hardware. Geomview represents the current state of an ongoing effort at the Geometry Center to provide interactive geometry software which is particularly appropriate for mathematics research and education. In particular, geomview can display objects in hyperbolic and spherical space as well as Euclidean space. Geomview allows multiple independently controllable objects and cameras. It provides interactive control for motion, appearances (including lighting, shading, and materials), picking on an object, edge or vertex level, snapshots in RenderMan RIB format, and adding or deleting objects is provided through direct mouse manipulation, control panels, and keyboard shortcuts. External programs can drive desired aspects of the viewer (such as continually loading changing geometry or controlling the motion of certain objects) while allowing interactive control of everything else. Geomview can display Mathematica 3D graphics output; for information on this see the file OOGL.m.doc in the "doc" subdirectory. Geomview supports the following simple data types: polyhedra with shared vertices (.off), quadrilaterals, rectangular meshes, vectors, and Bezier surface patches of arbitrary degree including rational patches. Object hierarchies can be constructed with lists of objects and instances of object(s) transformed by one or many 4x4 matrices. Arbitrary portions of changing hierarchies may be transmitted by creating named references. Geomview for NeXTSTEP is distributed as a tar file containing this README file and an Installer package. Extracting Geomview.pkg will install the Geomview application tree, including executables, some utility programs and application modules, sample data files, and manual pages. If you use geomview please send an email note to geomview-users-request@geom.umn.edu requesting to be added to the geomview-users mailing list; this list is for announcements regarding geomview and for geomview users to communicate with each other.
These are the contents of the former NiCE NeXT User Group NeXTSTEP/OpenStep software archive, currently hosted by Marcel Waldvogel and Netfuture.ch.