[ REQ 5461]: ellipsoids

[doolin at cs.utk.edu]

Hi,

I downloaded Geomview last night, and spent a couple of hours looking through
it.
I have a couple of questions.

Before I ask, I need to explain that I have spent a year or so trying to
Intergraph 
Microstation on an academic license, with a version that has *known* bugs.
Since
I am academic user, I am entitled to no support, and indeed, Bentley (DOS
version
supporter) has given me very little.  This has been an incredibly frustrating
experience,
and I am really rather burned out on graphics.  I had intended to use the
program as a 
graphics laboratory to model rock fracture systems.  Before I invest an
enormous
amount of time into a different program, I need to know the following:

1) Can I easily construct an ellipsoid with a major, intermediate, and minor
axis?
This is for illustrating 3 dimensional, 2nd order tensor quantities.

/*  2) Will Geomview save to PostScript?   I use LaTeX for composing papers;
PostScript
images are supported.  If not, what would be my options here.  */
Never mind this one, I just found the manual entry!

BTW, I am very impressed.  The quality of `free' software continues to grow.
I also use gcc and djgpp.   Great stuff.

Many thanks for taking the time to answer these questions,
Dave Doolin