Geomview Background
AUTHOR: Dr. Gerd Döben-Henisch
FIRST DATE: December 27, 1995
DATE of LAST CHANGE: January 4, 1996
What Is Geomview?
Geomview is an interactive program for viewing and manipulating
geometric objects, written by staff members of the Geometry Center. It
can be used as a standalone viewer for static objects or as a display
engine for other programs which produce dynamically changing geometry.
It runs on Silicon Graphics (SGI) IRIS workstatons and NeXT
workstations, and on a variety of systems using generic X graphics and
Motif interface. This manual describes SGI Geomview version 1.5.
Although we do not yet have a manual for the NeXT and X versions, much
this of manual applies to them as well as to the SGI version.
Geomview and this manual are available for free via anonymous ftp on the
Internet from host `geom.umn.edu' (IP address 128.101.25.35).
Permission is granted to make copies of this manual.
If you have questions or comments about Geomview or this manual, you can
email them to `software@geom.umn.edu'. We are always glad to hear from
users. There is also a `geomview-users' mailing list for announcements
regarding Geomview and for Geomview users to communicate with each
other. If you use Geomview please send an email note to
geomview-users-request@geom.umn.edu' requesting to be added to this
mailing list.
Authors
Tamara Munzner, Stuart Levy, and Mark Phillips are the original authors
of Geomview. Celeste Fowler, Charlie Gunn, and Nathaniel Thurston also
made significant contributions. Daniel Krech and Scott Wisdom did the
NeXTStep and RenderMan port, and Daeron Meyer and Tim Rowley did the
port to X windows.
Mark Phillips wrote this manual, with substantial help from Stuart Levy
and Tamara Munzner. Countless Geomview users have also been of great
help by reading it and pointing out mistakes.
Let Us Hear From You
We are very interested in hearing about how you are using Geomview.
Think of Geometry Center software as a new kind of shareware: you share
your science and successes with us, and we share our software and
support with you. The Geometry Center is funded by the National Science
Foundation, and it is important that we be able to report to NSF the
ways in which our software is being used.
If you use Geomview, please send us a letter telling us what you are
doing with it. We need to know:
- What you are working on - an abstract of your work would be fine.
- How Geomview has helped you, for example, by increasing your
productivity or allowing you to do things you could not do before. In
particular, if you feel that Geomview has had a direct bearing on your
work, please tell us about this.
Please send the letter either via email to register@geom.umn.edu', or via regular mail to the address below.
Moreover, if you use Geomview or other Geometry Center software in your
work, we encourage you to cite its use in your publications.
Thank you!
Software Development Group
Geometry Center
1300 South 2nd St, Suite 500
Minneapolis, MN 55454
USA
Comments are welcomed to kip-ml@inm.de
Daimlerstrasse 32, 60314 Frankfurt am Main, Deutschland. Tel +49- (0)69-941963-0, Tel-Gerd: +49- (0)69-941963-10