Re: geomview

[slevy]

> 1- I am having difficulties with the Mathematica interface to
> geomview: it seems to works inconsistently. 
> Sometimes geomview ignores requests to display 3DGraphics object 
> which Gl.m or Live can work with, and Mma jump silently to the
> next In[] prompt.
> When an object is so rejected, it is at least consistently rejected.
> Do you wnat a non working object e-mail'd?

Yes, please do!

> 2- Is there a way to get tranparencies at all? how should I setup
> geomview for crayola transparency to work?

There's a "Transparent" button on the Materials panel; that needs to be
engaged to make transparency effective.  Note that we don't really implement
transparency properly; that would require drawing polygons in a consistent
order, back-to-front or front-to-back.  So if one transparent object occludes
another, you see strange effects.  (Also, transparency can never work
on some machines, e.g. Personal Irises.  It does work on Indigos.)

> 3- Are you planning to have two tools working simultaneously 
> (like fly+look at, or rotate+zoom)?

Probably not... but could you explain what you have in mind?

> 4- Are the sources available?

Not yet... we're slowly working on a source release and will let you know
when it's ready.

> Congratulations and thank you,
> 
> Jean-Pierre Hebert