geomview

[Ioannis Emiris <emiris at roma.eecs.berkeley.edu>]

Hello,

I have been using Geomview for a while on an SGI machine and have
been very pleased with its capabilities; our main use is to visualize
convex hulls and their projections to planes.

One problem we are encountering, though, is in trying to print the
snapshots of our polytopes. The standard facility that produces an
SGI snapshot in rgb format leads to a very slow procedure and, more
importantly, gives ps files that cannot be readily used in a tex
document, since they miss the bounding box information.

On the other hand, external module PS Snapshot is fast but seems to
override several of the specifications imposed on a certain geometry
(for instance, it will ignore the fact that facets are not shown and
will color them). Since the geomview.ps manual contains no information
on particular modules, I would like to know if there is a manual for
PS Snapshot, or at least an address to communicate with its authors

Thank you
Ioannis Emiris