Re: [Update REQ 5963]: Questions About Geomview

[daemon]

> Question #1 - Will Geomview allow me to display textured triangles?
> Question #2 - Will Geomview allow me to do the actual texturing?

Yes and no.  The current general release (geomview 1.5) won't, as you've
probably found.  You can get an SGI binary, with sample data files and
documentation, for the next release of geomview which does support some
texture mapping, by anonymous FTP to geom.umn.edu.  Retrieve the file
   priv/slevy/gv-texture.tar.gz

At present this only supports texture mapping for MESHes
(rectangularly-connected ones) and not for OFFs.  You could represent each triangle as a separate 2x2-vertex MESH, with two of its
vertices coincident, though this would be pretty inefficient.  I'd still
like to 


> Question #3 - Does Geomview (SGI Version) utilize or support GL or Open GL?

Both are supported in the next release.  The SGI binary in the
gv-texture.tar.gz file uses Open GL.

> Question #4 - If the answer to "Question #3" is yes does 
> this mean that there might be a way for me to modify 
> Geomview so that I can add texture to my triangles?
> Question #5 - What would be involved in 
> accomplishing "Question #4"?  How would I go about it?  (I 
> already downloaded the source code from the WEB site.)

Maybe, though it's probably easier if we do it.  It shouldn't take us long.

> I have found Geomview very user friendly and that is why I 
> would like to be able to modify it so that it can support my 
> texture mapping needs.

Thanks for your interest!