[ REQ 5259]: Geomview

["Mark Phillips" <mbp>]

Date: Thu, 9 Feb 1995 10:07:44 -0800
From: johnson at mercury.ee.ucla.edu (Michael Johnson)
To: register at geom
Subject: Geomview


I'm looking for a relatively simple 3-D visualization program
to use as a frontend geometry viewing tool for a locally (UCLA)
created Finite-Difference Time Domain Electromagnetic Modeling
program.  In our FDTD program, we define surfaces in a cartesian
grid.  I'm looking for a way to visualize our model to verify
that the input file is correct.  Ultimately, I would like to use
the 3D frontend to "draw" the object to be modeled.  Do you think
Geomview is a good package for the applicaiton I have in mind?
If not, can you suggest an alternative?  At present, we simply
generate a postscript file (that can't be rotated) and view it
with ghostview.

I have tried several times to download your program without success.
(both via the Mosaic http method and ftp through Mosaic).  The
download seems to go o.k. until the end.  I then get a "uncompress
error" and some errors indicating unable to create files.  Do you
have any idea what I'm doing wrong?  I'm running the FDTD program
on an IBM RISC/6000 and would like to obtain the IBM Binary.

Thank you

Mike Johnson