Re: [Closed REQ 5279]: Geomview for Microsoft Windows?

["Tamara Munzner" <munzner>]

>I'm very impressed with your Web site and your software programs.
Thanks!

>I'm sure you have been asked this question already, but I don't
>see any answer for it.  Is there a version of your viewer for
>Microsoft Windows
No. 

>, or is anyone working on it?
Well, we've just started porting the SGI version to OpenGL, which is 
available on Windows machines. We don't have many resources to devote
to this, so it might be a while...

>Also is OOGL your standard for representing 3D objects, or is it
>some open standard from the 3D community.
>Thanks for your help.  I'm interested in 3D and I'm thinking about
>perhaps developing a viewer for Windows, which could perhaps use
>your OOGL standard.  But my main object is to view 3D digitized
>objects.  My friend's company has developed a high precision laser
>3D scanner and could use a viewer to view their results.

OOGL is ours, it incorporates some community-defined formats like OFF.
See http://vrml.wired.com/ for information on the emerging VRML
standard. (VRML also allows you to attach Web-style hyperlinks to 3D
objects, but also will be a useful 3D interchange format.)

>Finally, would OOGL work well for non-geometrical objects, like
>digitized 3D models with thousands of points?

It's possible but not optimal.

Hope this helps,

Tamara Munzner		The Geometry Center	     ((555) 555-5555
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