problems with vis5d+ (scientific data visualization program)
problems with vis5d+ (scientific data visualization program)
- Subject: problems with vis5d+ (scientific data visualization program)
- From: Mike Zulauf <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 14:49:40 -0800
Hi all,
I recently installed Apple's beta X11 implementation. It looks nice,
but I'm unable to get worthwhile results with one of the codes that I
use frequently. This program is vis5d+, "a free OpenGL-based
volumetric visualization program for scientific datasets in 3+
dimensions."
See: http://vis5d.sourceforge.net/
Previously, I had Xdarwin and Xfree86 installed via fink, and vis5d
ran fine. I had a couple minor problems building the code, but I was
able to work around them.
After I installed Apple's X11 User and X11 SDK packages, I found that
I could no longer view data with vis5d. I rebuilt it (specifically,
vis5d+-1.3.0-beta), but that made no difference. The program runs,
and the control windows (with buttons, scales, etc) work fine, but
the 3-D display window where the data is rendered just shows garbage.
This garbage appears to be thin lines grabbed from the main display,
and it doesn't change, even when something is done which should
change the view.
Any ideas? According to Apple's ReadMe.rtf, "OpenGL offscreen
rendering is not yet supported." I don't know if that is an issue
here. The data is displayed on the screen, but I don't know how it
is rendered.
This is running on a 17" LCD iMac, with 768 MB, under 10.2.3.
Any thoughts about possible configuration flags, ways to get this to
run, etc? Or am I going to need to go back to XDarwin and wait for
this product to mature a bit?
Thanks,
Mike
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Mike Zulauf
email@hidden
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