[Closed REQ 5185]: geomview reference list?

["Tamara Munzner" <munzner>]

Just for the record, here's what I sent to Celeste. -Tamara

Why don't you send this to the reporter, and have her call me if she
has further questions.
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The refs for the science museum Web page are:

This article was originally published on the geometry.pre-college and
geometry.college newsgroups Fri, 17 Jun 1994. It is available via the
World Wide Web at the following URL
  http://www.geom.umn.edu/docs/forum/museum/museum.html. 
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Here are two publications which mention Geomview:
@article{Notices,
 author = "Mark Phillips and Silvio Levy and Tamara Munzner",
 title = "Geomview: An Interactive Geometry Viewer",
 journal = "Notices of the American Mathematical Society",
 note = "Computers and Mathematics Column",
 pages = "985--988",
 month = "October",
 year = "1993",
 volume = 40,
 number = 8
}
@article{IEEE,
 author = "Andrew Hanson and Tamara Munzner and George Francis",
 title = "Interactive Methods for Visualizable Geometry",
 journal = "IEEE Computer",
 pages = "73--83",
 month = "July",
 year = "1994",
 volume = 27,
 number = 4
}

Below is a blurb about Geomview, which includes information on how to
download it. 
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Geomview is an interactive 3D visualization tool designed to give
mathematicians and others access to computer graphics without spending
time on low-level graphics programming. Geomview allows interactive
control over the motion and appearance of geometric objects and can be
used by another running program as a dynamic display. It includes
support for projection from higher dimensions to R^3, non-Euclidean
spaces, and 3-manifold navigation.

Geomview is available for free via anonymous ftp from geom.umn.edu in
the directory pub/software/geomview. There are versions for SGI,
NeXTStep, and X Windows platforms.

The main purpose of Geomview is to display objects whose geometry is
given, allowing interactive control over details such as point of
view, speed of movement, appearance of surfaces and lines, and so on.
Geomview can handle any number of objects and allows both separate and
collective control over them.  The simplest way to use Geomview is as
a standalone viewer to see and manipulate objects.  It can display
objects described in a variety of file formats.

Geomview can also be used to handle the display of data coming from
another program that is running simultaneously.  As the other program
changes the data, the Geomview image reflects the changes.  Programs
that generate objects and use Geomview to display them are called
external modules.  External modules can control almost all aspects of
Geomview: they can drive desired aspects of the viewer (such as
continually loading changing geometry or controlling the motion of
certain objects) while allowing interactive control of everything
else.  The idea behind Geomview is that many aspects of the display
and interaction parts of geometry software are independent of the
geometric content and can be collected together in a single piece of
software that can be used in a wide variety of situations.  The author
of the external module can then concentrate on implementing the
desired algorithms and leave the display aspects to Geomview. 

Geomview represents the current state of an ongoing effort at the
Geometry Center to provide interactive geometry software that is
particularly appropriate for mathematics research and education.
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