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[Ayellet Tal <ayt at Princeton.EDU>]

Hi, 

As you know, I was looking for a viewer to use in my
work. I compared three viewers: Salem, Geomview and 
Inventor.
David Dobkin told me that you are interested in seeing 
the result of that comparison. I enclose it below.
Possibly I did not perform a fair comparison so I may
have overlooked some of the features of the viewers.

One of the main difficulties I had with Geomview was
the fact that it did not have very much documentation
and examples as compared with Inventor.
I also wanted a tool that supported multiple windows.

I would like to thank you for the time spent helping 
me,
Ayellet


                    Salem           Geomview          Inventor
---------------------------------------------------------------
simplicity           +
easy to use

lights, shading      -                +                  +

save state -         +?               +                  +
play manually and
pick the best view

not only a euclidian                  +
space

displaying edges                      +                   ?
(meshes)

types of objects                      +                   +
(meshes, ...)

user interface       +                +                   +
                                    nicest?

multiple window      +                -                   +
support                         no interactive control


maintenance                           +                   +

documentation                                             +
and examples

print postscript                                          +

text                 -                ?                   +

textures                                                  +