New Features in ShapeViewer v. 1.1

Perspective

[View Menu] Toggles the display perspective to ??

Scene Orientation

[View Menu] Sets the scene orientation (rotation). Predefined orientations and user specified orientations are supported.

Light Direction

[View Menu] Sets the direction of the scene light sources to a predefined location.

View Direction

[View Menu] Sets the viewpoint of observer to one of several predefined points.

Bean Shell

[Advanced Menu] Allows an expert user access to the programming language used to create and control the ShapeViewer. Custom script may be defined and executed.

Server

[Advanced Menu] Allows a ShapeViewer to communicate it's actions to a group of separate, remote ShapeViewer programs. Whatever the Server displays will be shown on the remote client ShapeViewers.

Client mode

[Advanced Menu] Allows a ShapeViewer to be controlled by a remote ShapeViewer Server. The local viewer display will show what is being done with the remote Server viewer.

Load Shape in (client) Viewer

[Advanced Menu] Loads a shape file into a locally run separate ShapeViewer whose orientation is slaved to the current Viewer. This is allow multiple shape to be seen from the same orientation.

View Log

[Help Menu] Displays a detaled event and message log.

More File Formats

ShapeViewer now displays Loni TM , OpenDX DX and Geomview OFF data file formats.

Variable color opacity

The color(s) assigned to shapes may have their opacity varied.

Editable Color Map Control Points

The values of Color Map control points may be edited and set precisely.

Invertable Color Maps

A color map's coloring scheme may be inverted - color of high values changed to low values, and vice versa.

Data defined vertex colors

Shape with data attributes assigned to their vertices may have the colors of the vertices set from user defined custom color maps.

Coordinate Transform

Applies an AIR linear transformation to the coordinates of a Shape's vertices.