On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Cole Tuininga wrote:
> Jeffry Smith wrote:
> >
> > This is a followup to Cole's presentation of a 3D modeling sw at the
> > May SLUG meeting. I just found Geomview, which has restarted
> > development, apparently (thanks to the power of GPL when the original
> > developers abandoned it):
> > http://www.geomview.org/
> >
> > I'm still working on getting it to actually work, since it appears to
> > currently use Motif, and it doesn't use autoconf, so you have to do
> > lots of editing of makefiles to match your system. Looks promising,
> > from the screenshots.
>
> It looks like this does not do modeling?
>
> For the more sadistic folks in the audience, blender (www.blender.nl) is
> an excellent modeling tool ... if you can get over the horrendous UI.
> ;)
Yeah, as I've looked more at it, it's a viewer for 3d models, then
allows you to define viewing angles, lighting, etc, and do the full
rendering. So, you do need a modeller. However, you did say that the
one you demonstrated had an interface problem (too close to some
proprietary product, and was being sued or something). Combine this
viewer with a good modeller, we'd have a great tool (and one that
meets the Unix (small tools doing one thing well, chained together)
and OO ways - Model / Viewer / Controller, this is the
Viewer piece).
jeff
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