Meshview : Visualizing the Fourth Dimension

Meshviewis an interactive visualization system for viewing points, curves, and two-dimensional manifolds embedded in 3D or 4D, with the emphasis on handling 4D objects. All rigid motions i 3D and 4D can be performed under mouse (or 3D mouse) control, while key-frame animations support motions and deformatio ns f such objects. Meshview is written in C, OpenGL, and X/Motif w ith the objective of being as compact, portable, and device-ind pendent as possible within the given framework. The system has been u s d successfully to do research on a variety of problems such as 4 D viewing interfaces, mathematical visualization of classi cal higher dimensional geometry, Riemann surfaces, functions of two c omplex variables, and 4D quaternion representations of 3D coo rdinate frames.

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