Re: [Closed REQ 5062]: 4DView

["Daeron Meyer" <daeron>]

> 
> Date: Fri, 23 Sep 1994 13:30:09 UTC+0100
> From: Miguel Angel Garcia <garcia at ic.upc.es>
> Subject: 4DView
> To: software@geom
> Message-Id: <344*/S=garcia/OU=ic/O=upc/PRMD=iris/ADMD=mensatex/C=es/@MHS>
> 
> Dear Sir/Madam,
> 
> I'm using Geomview 1.4.1 and its module 4DView to display 4D surfaces
> (3D geometry + color).
> 
> My problem is that I only obtain a small variation of colors between
> red and blue. This variation is not enough for my purposes. For
> instance, small variations of the surface are not detected and
> color variations are not reflected in the printer.
> 
> I was wondering if it is possible to increase the width of the color
> range. The possibility of changing the color map would also be great.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> 	Miguel Angel Garcia
> 	Institute of Cybernetics
> 	Polytechnic University of Barcelona
> 	Barcelona (SPAIN)

Miguel,

The program 4Dview was a short term solution to the need for 4D viewing
software. It has since been obsoleted by a newer package, NDview, written
by Olaf Holt. NDview is an external module (like 4dview) for Geomview, which
allows you to use Geomview to view objects in n-dimensional space for
arbitrary n. It also has the customized colormap feature you were asking
about. I highly recommend checking it out! You can obtain a copy via ftp from
ftp.geom.umn.edu in /pub/software/geomview/newpieces/sgi/NDview-sgi.tar.Z

enjoy,
Daeron