Geomview
Geomview is interactive geometry software which is
particularly appropriate for mathematics research and education. It can
be used as a standalone viewer for static objects, or as a display
engine for other programs which produce dynamically changing geometry.
In particular, Geomview can display things 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 SGI image file or 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.
The software was originally written by staff members of the
Geometry Centre at the University of Minnesota. It is mature software
with development commencing in 1991.
Geomview 1.9.4
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Price
Free to download
Size
3.9MB
License
GNU LGPL v2
Developer
Many contributors
Website
www.geomview.org
System Requirements
libgeomview
lesstif
xpdf
OpenGL
Support
Sites:
Documentation,
FAQ, Mailing List
Selected
Reviews:
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Features include:
- Supports simple data types:
- Polyhedra with
shared vertices (.off)
- Quadrilaterals
- Rectangular meshes
- Vectors
- 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
- Can be used as a Mathematica
graphics output device
- Wide selection of example objects
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