Re: [Closed REQ 5371]: Triangular Meshes

["Tamara Munzner" <munzner>]

Geomview can definitely display this kind of thing, but it can't read
this particular file format directly. You'd have to write a converter
to transform the data into one of the formats that Geomview can read,
but that wouldn't be too much work. You could either convert it to the
OFF format, which expects a list of vertices and then the connectivity
of the vertices, or a MESH object, which is a rectangular mesh. If
you'd like to take a look at what the file formats are before
downloading the whole thing, you can look at the two relevant
documents through the World Wide Web. The gentle introduction is at
http://www.geom.umn.edu/software/geomview/docs/oogltour.html and the
detailed reference is at
http://www.geom.umn.edu/software/geomview/docs/ooglman.html which is a
pointer into the relevant section of the manual.

Hope this helps,
Tamara Munzner		The Geometry Center	     ((555) 555-5555
munzner at geom.umn.edu	http://www.geom.umn.edu/~munzner