As a comment for Windows users, if you need to run UNIX software, there
is a very good collection of tools that lets you run most UNIX
programs you can get source code for, natively on your Windows machine.
Cygwin (http://www.cygwin.org) is an open source (free) collection of
software you can load on your Windows machine which emulates a UNIX
and X-Windows environment. The only time that I have seen that you
will run into trouble is if the software has a networking layer, or if
you are trying to talk directly to hardware devices (UNIX and Windows
do this stuff very differently). It comes with C/C++ (gcc/g++) and
FORTRAN compilers (f77 - if you need F90/F95 google gfortran) and all
the other usual GNU tools.
I do recommend having a UNIX/Linux friend available to install this.
It is not a simple install, and you have to pick and choose the
components you want. You can pick everything, but have 500 MB to 1 GB
free.
When everything is installed though, and you start it, you get a
standard UNIX ASCII terminal window. You type your usual UNIX commands
here. If you need to run X-Windows program, you need to first type
"startx" to bring up the X-Server. This has its own console window
to launch X-Windows programs from.
I use this for my own software (UNCERT), and while it is a little slower
than if I run it on a Linux machine, it's not bad. This has been a
faster option for me then re-writing my software in Java or Window's
Visual Studio.
For output, since many UNIX programs target PostScript printers, print
to a PostScript file. I think there is a cygwin ps2pdf program, but I
don't have it loaded. I usually use Adobe Acrobat Distiller to
convert *.PS files to *.PDF's. There are also free / cheaper programs
for Windows to do this on the web.
You can also easily access all your Window hard drives. The C: drive
for example is /cygdrive/c/. From the Windows side, you have a
standard UNIX filesystem under the cygwin installation directory.
Sorry for being long winded, but I work in Windows office, and this
lets me easily still use my favorite UNIX tools.
Bill Wingle
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Agreed, except it isn't ONLY Unix - it IS only X-windows, but can be run
on Windows with an X-window client.
Tim Glover
Senior Environmental Scientist - Geochemistry
Geoenvironmental Department
MACTEC Engineering and Consulting, Inc.
Kennesaw, Georgia, USA
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Fax 770-421-3486
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Web www.mactec.com
-----Original Message-----
From: samuel verstraete [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, March 13, 2006 10:40 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [ai-geostats] software for 3D visualization
Hey
After a long search i have found openDX ... totally free, opensource,
very user-unfriendly and UNIX only... so most likely not what you're
looking for but i just wanted to share this with you.
gr,S.
On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 10:13:18 -0500
Laura Kracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I have started working with SGeMS have found it pretty easy for 3-D
visualization. I'd suggest that if you're interested, we can
continue this discussion on the sgems mailing list. It looks like
that community could use a little critical mass getting this user
group going.
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sgems-users
http://sgems.sourceforge.net/#contacts
Laura Kracker
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Laura M. Kracker, PhD
Geographer
NOAA National Ocean Service
Center for Coastal Environmental Health
and Biomolecular Research
219 Fort Johnson Road
Charleston, SC 29412-9110
843-762-8640 Phone
843-762-8700 Fax
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http://www.chbr.noaa.gov
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bob sandefur wrote:
I haven't used it yet but screen shots on SGeMS looked ok (and its
free)
-----Original Message-----
From: M. Nur Heriawan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, March 12, 2006 6:26 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [ai-geostats] software for 3D visualization
Hello everybody,
I have 3D categorical output data in X, Y, and Z
resulted from interpolation. I need a program or
software for visualizing those data in 3D block model.
I have used PIXELPLT (from GSLIB) to make any slices
in XY, XZ, and YZ directions, but it could not be used
for 3D block visualization.
So, could anybody suggest me which free or comercial
program (or software) I should use in this purpose?
Thanks for your helps.
Best regards,
Nur Heriawan
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Earth Resources Exploration Research Group
Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB)
Indonesia
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