[ REQ 5833]: goemview questions

[dmoore at bbn.com]

I have just downloaded geomview and installed it on a Sun - it sort
of works fine.  My intention is to evaluate geomview for visualizing
finite element models generated with our in-house finite element,
structural acoustics program.  I have already written a geomview
interface from our software and displayed models.  This entire
process took 4 hrs; needless to say I'm impressed with the ease of
use and intuitive object data structures.  

One problem I have is when executing external modules I get the
following errors:

ld.so: warning: /usr/openwin/lib/libXt.so.4.1 has older revision than expected 10
ld.so: libXext.so.4: not found
ld.so: warning: /usr/lib/libc.so.1.8 has older revision than expected 9
ld.so: warning: /usr/lib/libc.so.1.8 has older revision than expected 9


I think that our version of X11 is out-of-date, causing the errors and
I am going to ignore for the time being.  However, I have a question.
Our models typically contain a number of materials including structure
and fluids which I can color-code for visualization.  Is there a way
that I can structure input so that I can plot the whole model and then
interactively look at selected materials (objects?)?.

Just some historical info:  our codes (SARA-2D/3D) are used by 10-15 DoD,
commercial and university sites for structural acoustic support to the
Navy; primarily for underwater acoustic problems.  We develop and
distribute the software under government contract, free-of-charge,
to authorized users.  We concentrate on the finite element algorithms
and assume pre- and post-processing will be done external to our
software and provide interfaces to IDEAS, PATRAN, MATLAB, TECPLOT, 
and Moviestar (old Brigham Young FE visualization code).  We are looking
for a visualization package we can support and recommend to our user
community for visualizing models (and later results). You can find
info on our codes at BBN's www.bbn.com site if you are interested.  We
are also pursuing commercialization of the software for release
within the next year.


Newbie:

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