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[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: geomview comments
> 1) I only found out about geomview by word of mouth. Which newsgroups or > mailing lists should I follow for announcements of new versions, > add-ons, etc? (This could go in the docs!) We haven't been doing this regularly -- I think there was one announcement on comp.graphics and comp.sys.sgi. This is a good point; we should start a geomview users' mailing list. We wouldn't want to broadcast to some large group every time we release a new gadget, but it'd make sense for a geomview interest group list. > 2) Do you know if there's an interface to Mathematica in the works > anywhere? (I have seen an X interface to Mathematica with `live' > rotation & scaling somewhere, so it should be possible). Yes -- it exists now. Pick up pub/geomview/mathoogl.tar.Z from geom.umn.edu. > 3) For geometric models with a definite `up' axis, the current > mouse-transform interface is rather inconvenient as you keep tilting the > model from the vertical. It would be nice if the rotations could be > constrained to keep the model-vertical aligned with the display-vertical > (model y-axis in display y-z plane, I presume). Is this possible or > easy-to-implement? We've talked about a couple of things along this line -- "constrained" motion along just the display axes (so e.g. an approximate horizontal drag would be taken as exactly horizontal), and motion about the object's own axes, so (say) a pure horizontal motion would amount to rotation about the object's own Y axis, no matter how that was oriented on the screen. Would that do? Both would be pretty easy to implement; the problem would be choosing a convenient way to specify when you wanted them to apply. Thanks for your comments & for the "-stdin" script! Stuart Levy, Geometry Center, University of Minnesota slevy at geom.umn.edu
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