Index | iSight | Lab | CMCLab | MinLab | SurfLab | KLab | BubbletonLab | MrBubbleLab | GANG
iSight

iSight Guide
Software: Nick Schmitt
Cutaway view of the Clifford torus projected orthogonally from four-dimensional space
  • Overview - What is iSight
  • Getting Started - Quick tutorial
  • Main - reading and writing files
    • Read - read a geometry file
    • Write - write a geometry or image file
    • Close All - close all widget windows except the top-level menu
    • Messages - open a panel showing error messages
    • Help - open Netscape to a help page
    • About - open panel showing version and credits
    • Exit - quit the application
  • Mouse Button Bindings - how to move a surface around
  • Appearance - setting surface attributes
    • Appearance - change the appearance of the surface being viewed
    • Color - change the color of the surface being viewed
    • Global Light - modify the global lighting
    • Lights - modify the local lighting
    • Blend - set transparency, blending, depth buffer and fog options
  • Surface - building and clipping a surface
    • Construct - construct a surface by reflection in planes
    • Clip Plane - clip away parts of the surface with planes
    • Mesh Clip - shrink the domain grid of a surface
    • Statistics - show the number vertices, edges and faces of a surface
  • Settings - window, camera and mouse settings
    • Geometry - choose a Euclidean or non-Euclidean geometry model
    • Camera - choose an perspective or orthographic camera and its attributes
    • Background Color - set the background color of the viewer window
    • Window Size - change the size of the viewer window
    • Mouse - change the mouse attributes such as speed, acceleration and inertia
    • Select - select, add and delete windows and surfaces
  • Examples - Library of iSight input files


iSight Guide GANG