mbp@lakisis.umd.edu (Mark Phillips) (08/08/89)
I have two requests: 1. Does anyone have (or know where I can get) a simple 3D polygon viewing program for the 3130? It should read up to several thousand polygons in 3-space (in my case they will all be triangles) from a file, and then let me view them in real-time. The format of the input file is not important, since I can generate it in whatever form is necessary. The viewing should be interactive --- I want to be able to turn the picture around, zoom in and out, etc, by moving the mouse. Since the 3130 can render only a small number of polygons in real-time, the program should be able to switch between displaying a shaded image or just a wire-mesh diagram (consisting of the edges of the polygons). This seems so basic to what the IRIS can do that I am surprised that such a program doesn't come bundled with the machine. (It's much simpler than a flight simulator!) If anyone out there has access to something like this which you can give me, I would appreciate it. I would prefer to have the source code, but I'll take anything I can get. 2. Do any of you who have graduated from the 3000 series to bigger and better things have any old manuals that you don't need and would be willing to give me? I have access to a 3130 in a lab in another department, and I do most of my programming while rlogged into it from the Sun in my office, which is in another building. I do this for convenience, but it's a real nuisance to have to make a trip across campus every time I want to look something up. I would therefore like to have my own copy of the Programming Guide and Reference Guide for the graphics library (Version 4.0). The document number is 007-11-1-040 (for both the Programming Guide, which is Vol I, and the Reference Guide, which is Vol II). I would greatly appreciate it, and will gladly reimburse you for the cost of sending them to me. I called our local SGI sales office and was told they no longer have these manuals. I could of course make photocopies, but before going to the trouble I thought I'd see if anyone has any to spare. Please email any responses directly to me, since I'm not always able to keep up with this newsgroup. Thanks! Mark Phillips mbp@lakisis.umd.edu (arpanet) Department of Mathematics (301) 454-7071 University of Maryland College Park, Maryland 20742