Geomview Manual

• What Is Geomview?
  • Authors
• Let Us Hear From You
• Overview
• Tutorial
• Interaction
  • Starting Geomview
  • Command Line Options
  • Basic Interaction: The Main Panel
  • Loading Objects Into Geomview
  • Using the Mouse to Manipulate Objects
    • Selecting a Point of Interest
  • Changing the Way Things Look
    • The Appearance Panel
    • The Materials Panel
    • The Lighting Panel
  • Cameras
  • Saving your work
  • The Commands and Obscure Panels
  • Keyboard Shortcuts
• OOGL File Formats
  • Conventions
    • Syntax Common to All OOGL File Formats
    • File Names
    • Vertices
    • Surface normal directions
    • Transformation matrices
    • Binary format
    • Embedded objects and external-object references
    • Appearances
  • Object File Formats
    • QUAD: collection of quadrilaterals
    • MESH: rectangularly-connected mesh
    • Bezier Surfaces
    • OFF Files
    • VECT Files
    • SKEL Files
    • SPHERE Files
    • INST Files
      • INST Examples
    • LIST Files
    • TLIST Files
    • GROUP Files
    • DISCGRP Files
    • COMMENT Objects
  • Non-geometric objects
    • Transform Objects
    • cameras
    • window
• Customization: `.geomview' files
• External Modules
  • How External Modules Interface with Geomview
  • Example 1: Simple External Module
  • Example 2: Simple External Module with FORMS Control Panel
  • The FORMS Library
  • Example 3: External Module with Bi-Directional Communication
  • Module Installation
    • Private Module Installation
    • System Module Installation
• gcl: the Geomview Command Language
  • Conventions Used In Describing Argument Types
  • Gcl Reference Guide
• Non-Euclidean Geometry
• Mathematica Graphics in Geomview or RenderMan
  • Using Mathematica to generate OOGL files
  • Using Geomview as Mathematica's Default 3D Display
  • Using Mathematica to generate RenderMan files
  • Using Geomview and Mathematica on Different Computers
    • Using a Networked Geomview Host
    • Transporting Mathematica Files to Geomview by Hand
  • Details of the Mathematica->Geomview Package
  • Installing the Mathematica Packages
• Installation
  • Installing the SGI Binary Distribution
    • Details of the SGI Binary Installation
  • Installing the NeXT Binary Distribution
    • Details of the NeXTStep Binary Installation
  • Compiling and Installing the Source Code Distribution
  • Obtaining Geomview
• Function Index

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Created: February 28 1995 --- Last modified: Thu Mar 16 11:26:41 1995