Re: [Closed REQ 5301]: Geomview using triangular meshes

["Daeron Meyer" <daeron>]

> 
> Date: Tue, 14 Mar 1995 13:44:15 -0800
> From: browne at asterix.aracor.com (Dr. Jolyon Browne)
> Message-Id: <9503142144.AA05234 at asterix.>
> To: software@geom
> Subject: Geomview using triangular meshes
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I recently downloaded the Geomview manual to look at the capabilities
> of the software. It appears that Geomview supports rectangular meshes,
> but there is no mention of triangular meshes. Could you clarify if
> Geomview supports triangular meshes? Thanks.
> 
> Jolyon Browne
> 
> 
> 
> 

Hello Dr. Browne,

  Geomview does not support a triangular mesh file format. However, it is
still quite possible and not even that difficult to do triangular meshes.
Here is an example of a triangular mesh implemented with the OFF file format:

OFF
10 10 0		#number of verts, faces, (edges ignored by geomview, set = 0)

-1 1 0		# The vertices
0 1 -.5
1 1 0
-1.5 0 0
-.5 0 -.3
.5 0 .5
1.5 0 0
-1 -1 0
0 -.8 -.5
1 -1 0

3	0 3 4	# The triangular faces
3	0 4 1
3	1 4 5
3	1 5 2
3	2 5 6
3	3 7 4
3	4 7 8
3	4 8 5
3	5 8 9
3	5 9 6


Hope this helps,

Daeron Meyer
daeron at geom.umn.edu