Geomview is an interactive 3D viewing program for Unix. Geomview lets you view and manipulate three-dimensional objects: you use the mouse to rotate, translate, zoom in and out, and so on. Geomview can be used as a standalone viewer for static objects or as a display engine for other programs which produce dynamically changing geometry. Geomview can display objects described in a variety of file formats. Geomview comes with a wide selection of example objects, and you can create your own objects too. Geomview was written at the Geometry Center at the University of Minnesota between 1992 and 1996.

Program Location on Helix

Geomview program is located under :

/usr/local/geomview/geomview-1.9.4

Sample Session

Several sample files are located under /usr/local/geomview/geomview-1.9.4/data/geom

Start your X-windows software, login to helix

Put your input files under a directory. In this sample session, input files were copied from /usr/local/geomview/geomview-1.9.4/data/geom into user's /home/userID/geomview/test1:

% mkdir /home/userID/geomview/test1
% cp /usr/local/geomview/geomview-1.9.4/data/geom/tetra* /home/userID/geomview/test1
% cp /usr/local/geomview/geomview-1.9.4/data/geom/dodec* /home/userID/geomview/test1

Then on the command prompt, type:

% geomview /home/userID/geomview/test1/tetra /home/userID/geomview/test1/dodec

This command starts up Geomview and loads two example objects, a tetrahedron and a dodecahedron. After a few seconds three windows should appear:

Documentation

http://www.geomview.org/docs/