MIT Athena Computing Environment: What Runs Where: Graphics Software Detail
Description: MIT Athena Computing Environment: What Runs Where: Text/Graphics/Audio Software Detail
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What Runs Where
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| # What Runs Where on Athena: Graphics
| Graphics (Drawing) |
Title and description: Applix Graphics Description: drawing program To run: athena% add applix athena% applix & (select Graphics from * menu) See also: CorelDRAW, GLE, Star Office Drawing Note: Applixware will no longer be available on Athena as of 8/1/09. More information is here
Title and description: Applix Presents Description: presentation graphics program To run: athena% add applix athena% applix & (select Presents icon from * menu) See also: Applix Graphics, CorelDRAW, Magicpoint, Open Office Presentation Graphics, Star Office Presentation Graphics Note: Applixware will no longer be available on Athena as of 8/1/09. More information is here
Title and description: bitmap Description: tool for creating or editing rectangular bitmap images To run: athena% bitmap file.xbm & See also: CorelDRAW, raster
Title and description: convert (ImageMagick) Description: utility to convert images between various graphic formats. Other tools in the suite supply various utilities for display and interactive manipulation of images To run: athena% convert options infile outfile selected additional utilities: animate displays a sequence of images on a workstation running X composite composites images together conjure interprets and executes scripts in the Magick Scripting Language display displays an image on a workstation running X identify describes the format and characteristics of one or more image files import capture some or all of an X server screen and save the image to a file mogrify transforms an image or a sequence of images montage creates a composite image by combining several images There is local documentation See also: DjVu Libre utilities, eog, FWTools, LyX, NetPBM Utilities, raster, xv, xwd Note: A version which may be newer is also in the graphics locker
Title and description: CorelDRAW (old - there will be no future UNIX releases beyond 3.5) Description: drawing and presentation graphics suite including a graph and chart generator (CorelCHART), a drawing and illustration package (CorelDRAW), a file manager and database for graphics images (CorelMOSAIC), a photorealistic image editor and paint program (CorelPHOTO-PAINT), a presentation generator that links separate images together (CorelSHOW)and a utlity to convert bitmap to vector images (CorelTRACE) Licenses: we have 25 licenses To run: athena% add corel athena% corelchart & athena% coreldraw & athena% corelmosaic & athena% corelpaint & athena% coreltrace & See also: Applix Graphics, Applix Presents, bitmap, gimp, inkscape, Magicpoint, Star Office Drawing, Star Office Presentation Graphics, tgif, Xara LX, xfig, xpaint Note: CorelDRAW is only available on Athena Suns, which will be decommissioned by Summer 2009. Please plan to use other applications or purchase a personal license by then
Title and description: dia Description: diagram creation program suitable for applications such as flowcharts and circuit diagrams To run: athena% add dia athena% dia & Author Web site, with documentation See also: eagle, Electric VLSI, inkscape, ipe, Magic, tgif, Xara LX, xcircuit, xfig, xpaint
Title and description: DjVu Libre utilities Description: set of utilities for manipulating DjVu files. DjVu is an image file format that supports high compression ratios, and which includes: good compression for indexed-color images such as screen capture; composition of images via masked layers with different encodings; multiple-page images; interactive retrieval of image regions at adjustable resolution. Among other features, DjVu is good at compressing scanned pages containing text, diagrams, symbols, and images To run: athena% add djvu athena% command options files Commands include: Encoding tools: bzz, c44, cjb2, cpaldjvu, csepdjvu Decoding tools: ddjvu, djvups Manipulation tools: djvm, djvmcvt, djvudump, djvuextract, djvumake, djvused, djvuserve, djvutxt UNIX man pages explaining the function of each are accessible after adding the djvu locker (type man command) Author Web site See also: convert (ImageMagick), eog, FWTools, NetPBM Utilities, raster, xv
Title and description: eagle Description: schematic diagram and circuit board design tool To run: athena% add eaglecad athena% eagle & Vendor Web site There is a tutorial and manual See also: dia, Electric VLSI, gEDA, gerbv, Magic, xcircuit Note: the version installed on Athena is a limited free version; more information is here
Title and description: eog Description: graphics viewer that can display images and image collections in many native formats (including GIF, JPEG, TIFF, PNG, SVG, XBM, XPM and others) To run: athena% eog file & See also: convert (ImageMagick), DjVu Libre utilities, FWTools, xv
Title and description: FreeWRL Description: VRML2/VRML97/X3D file viewer based on specialized Perl scripts- supports a variety of enhancements including animation To run: athena% add freewrl athena% freewrl options file.wrl (to view a file) athena% freewrl options http://web.mit.edu/sample/file.wrl (to view a URL) Author Web site; 1.06 usage information is here; 1.20 usage information is here There are 2 different, incompatible VRML types- VRML1, or Open Inventor format, viewable on Athena by ivview, and VRML2/VRML97, viewable by freewrl. In order to allow the viewers to be configured for both of these in the same Web bowser, VRML files must have distinct mime types and extensions. For this reason, you should give your VRML1 files a .iv extension, even if you have been using .vrml or .wrl extensions previously. You don't need to change the header line in your VRML files however- if it's similar to #VRML V1.0 ascii you can leave it that way. Conversely, your VRML2 files should have a .wrl or .vrml extension, and a header line similar to #VRML V2.0 utf8 Versions: there is version skew (Linux version is newer) See also: ac3d, geomview, ivview, orbisnap, pymol, rasmol Note: a FreeWRL browser plugin is available, but it only works on Linux machines as of this writing. To use it, type: setenv MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH /afs/athena.mit.edu/software/freewrl/current/lib/mozilla/plugins at the Athena prompt. To configure as a browser helper application, use: MIME Type: x-world/x-vrml Description: VRML2/97 viewer Extension: wrl Open with: /afs/athena.mit.edu/software/freewrl/current/bin/freewrl
Title and description: FWTools (openev) Description: collection of utilities for dealing with GIS image data. openev is an image viewer that can handle multiple image formats (including jpeg2000), and which can filter and process images in a variety of ways. Components include MapServer (Web mapping package), GDAL/OGR (library and set of command-line utilities for reading and writing a variety of geospatial raster (GDAL) and vector (OGR) formats), PROJ.4 (cartographics projections library with associated utilities) and OGDI (multiformat raster and vector reading technology that supports various military formats) To run: athena% add fwtools athena% openev [-h] file (to view file in openev) athena% program infile outfile (to use program to convert infile to outfile) There is local openev documentation and an FWTools Web page; man pages for many of the utilities (look in /mit/fwtools/man/man1 directory for their names) See also: ArcInfo/ArcView, convert (ImageMagick), DjVu Libre utilities, eog, xv Note: use of the -h switch (enable hardware OpenGL) may be necessary to work around a bug that can cause a crash on launch
Title and description: geomview Description: geomview is an interactive program for viewing 3d objects. Objects can be described by data files in a variety of formats. Once an object is loaded into geomview, the user can interactively move around the scene, looking at objects from all sides; the user can also change visual characterisitcs of the object, such as color and transparency. geomview also has facilities for communicating with external modules provided by users; a number of these are supplied with the distribution To run: athena% add geomview athena% geomview & External modules: select one from the External Modules pick list in the main window Author Web site, with documentation, local documentation in html or pdf format; 1.9.3 README and NEWS See also: ac3d, FreeWRL, ivview, K3DSurf, OpenDX, ParaView, pymol, rasmol, Visualization Toolkit Note: crystallography add-on Wulffman has been built and added to the External Module list
Title and description: gerbv Description: viewer for Gerber RS-274X files. This is an industry standard format used for designing circuit boards. gerbv also supports drill files. The formats supported are known under names as NC-drill or Excellon. gerbv can load multiple overlays from separate Gerber files, and can output the images it displays in png format To run: athena% add gerbv athena% gerbv [files.grb] & Author Web site See also: eagle, electric VLSI, Magic Note: gerbv is also available as part of the gEDA suite
Title and description: gimp Description: gimp (GNU Image Manipulation Program) is a piece of software suitable for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It can be used as a simple paint program, a photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter and others. GIMP is expandable and extensible. It is designed to be augmented with plugins and extensions. The advanced scripting interface allows many customized actions to be performed Versions: there is version skew (Linux version is newer) To run: athena% add graphics (for gimp 1.2, Sun) athena% add gimp-2.2 (for gimp 2.2, Linux) athena% gimp & author Web pages, documentation See also: coreldraw, Scribus, tgif, xfig, xpaint, xv
Title and description: GLE Description: compiler for a language that generates 2d graphs and plots. The GLE translator gle converts files in the GLE source language (.gle files) to printable form (various common image file formats, pdf and PostScript). Does not currently come with a GUI To run: athena% add gle athena% gle -d format file.gle Author Web site, local documentation is here See also: Applix Graphics, gnuplot, Star Office Drawing, tgif, xcircuit, xfig, xpaint
Title and description: GLUT/GLUI Description: GLUT (OpenGL Utility Toolkit) is a programming interface with ANSI C and FORTRAN bindings for writing window system independent OpenGL programs. The toolkit supports the following functionality: multiple windows for OpenGL rendering; callback driven event processing; sophisticated input devices; an ``idle'' routine and timers; a simple, cascading pop-up menu facility; utility routines to generate various solid and wire frame objects; support for bitmap and stroke fonts; miscellaneous window management functions, including managing overlays. GLUI is a window-system independent C++ interface library that interfaces to GLUT and which provides controls such as buttons, checkboxes, radio buttons, spinners and listboxes for OpenGL/GLUT applications Versions: there is version skew (Linux version is newer) To run: athena% add glut compile with include files below /mit/glut/include, and link against library /mit/glut/lib/libglut.a (Sun) or /mit/glut/lib/libglut.so (Linux) More detailed information, including instructions for building examples and GLUT demos is in file: /mit/glut/README.to-run For information on using GLUI see /mit/glut/glui-2.1b/README.to-run; there is also a GLUI manual See also: OpenGL
Title and description: GNU plot utilities (graph) Description: The GNU plotting utilities consist of seven command-line programs: the graphics programs graph, plot, tek2plot, and plotfont, and the mathematical programs spline, ode, and double. Distributed with these programs is GNU `libplot', the library on which the graphics programs are based. `libplot' is a function library for device-independent two-dimensional vector graphics, including vector graphics animations under the X Window System To run: athena% add -f sipb (-f switch needed on Suns) athena% graph options datafile Other ways of using these utilities exist. See the file /mit/sipb/info/plotutils.info, in GNU info format for more detailed information See also: gnuplot, Grace, tgif
Title and description: inkscape Description: GUI editor for 2D Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) format drawing files, with some capabilities similar to Adobe Illustrator, CorelDraw, Visio. Supported features include basic shapes, paths, text, alpha blending, transforms, gradients, node editing, SVG-to-PNG export and grouping. SVG is a W3C standard XML format for 2D vector drawing that allows defining objects in the drawing using points, paths and primitive shapes Versions: there is version skew (Sun is 0.45.1, Linux is 0.46) To run: athena% add inkscape athena% inkscape & athena% inkview files.svg & (to view a "slide show" in svg format) There is an inkscape Web page and 0.46 release notes See also: CorelDRAW, dia, ipe, Magicpoint, Open Office Drawing, Scribus, tgif, Xara LX, xcircuit
Title and description: ipe Description: extensible drawing editor that can incorporate text and figures in LaTeX; this allows it to use full LaTeX functionality in the graphics it produces, and makes it easy to incorporate output into LaTeX documents. It can generate encapsulated PostScript and pdf directly, as well as its own native xml format To run: athena% add ipe athena% ipe & athena% pdftoipe file.pdf (to convert a pdf file to ipe xml format) There is an ipe Web page and online manual See also: dia, inkscape, latex, Scribus, tgif, Xara LX, xcircuit
Title and description: ivview Description: VRML1/Inventor viewer To run: athena% add inventor (Sun, Lnx) athena% ivview file.iv See also: ac3d, FreeWRL, geomview, Open Inventor, orbisnap Note: to configure as Netscape/Mozilla helper application, use: MIME Type: application/x-inventor Description: VRML1/Open Inventor viewer Extension: iv Open with: /afs/athena/software/inventor/arch/@sys/bin/ivview There are 2 different, incompatible VRML types- VRML1, or Open Inventor format, viewable by ivview, and VRML2/VRML97, viewable by freewrl or orbisnap. In order to allow the viewers to be configured for both of these in the same Web bowser, VRML files must have distinct mime types and extensions. For this reason, you should give your VRML1 files a .iv extension, even if you have been using .vrml or .wrl extensions previously. You don't need to change the header line in your VRML files however- if it's similar to #VRML V1.0 ascii you can leave it that way. Conversely, your VRML2 files should have a .wrl or .vrml extension, and a header line similar to #VRML V2.0 utf8
Title and description: Magicpoint Description: slide show generator, where "slides" are generated from a text file incorporating presentation data and formatting commands written in internal scripting language. Utilities mgp2ps and mgp2html can be used to convert Magicpoint scripts to PostScript and html repectively To run: athena% add magicpoint athena% mgp file.mgp There is mgp documentation, mgp2ps documentation See also: Applix Presents, CorelDRAW, inkscape, Open Office Presentation Graphics, Star Office Presentation Graphics, Xara LX
Title and description: NetPBM Utilities Description: large set of utilities to convert images between various graphic formats with some editing capabilities. Conversion is done through several related intermediate formats (pbm, pgm, ppm, pnm) To run: athena% add graphics (Sun; not necessary in some cases) athena% command file (there are too many commands to list individually) A list of commands along with man pages is here, and some explanatory information is here. Commands are frequently chained together through a series of pipes See also: convert (ImageMagick), DjVu Libre utilities, raster, rayshade, xv
Title and description: Open Inventor, OpenGL Description: The Open Inventor 3d Toolkit is an object-oriented toolkit that simplifies and abstracts the task of writing graphics programming into a set of objects. OpenGL is a 3d rendering library. It is available in the X window system through the GLX extension. Linux machines support Mesa, an OpenGL clone To run Open Inventor: athena% add inventor athena% ivview file.iv (to view an image in iv scene description format- also know as VRML1) To set up environment for running demos, and building and running applications: athena % /mit/inventor/set-demos athena% SceneViewer -e file.env file.iv (to view a scene with env environment files) To link against Mesa libraries on Linux machines: athena% add mesa compile with include files below /mit/mesa/include, and link against library /mit/mesa/lib/libGL.so (and possibly also additional libraries in same directory) See file /mit/inventor_v2.1.5.9/examples/README.to-run for instructions for building binaries that link against the Open Inventor libraries; for Linux, see also file README.dynamic_linking in the mesa locker for additional information on building Linux applications that use Mesa See also books: "The Inventor Mentor", "OpenGL Programming Guide" and "OpenGL Reference Manual" See also: ac3d, GLUT, ivview, K3DSurf, OpenDX, ParaView, Renderman, Visualization Toolkit Note: the ivlib locker contains information and examples of Open Inventor and OpenGL files. A local Web page exists; the information is old but may be useful
Title and description: Open Office Drawing Description: drawing component of Open Office office suite- select File -> New -> Drawing To run: athena% add -f ooffice (for new 3.1 release on Athena 10; not necessary on Athena 9.4) athena% ooffice [-ver 3.1] & (-ver switch for new 3.1 release) There is 2.x documentation: Getting Started guide, User Guide and entry point to other manuals; also the openoffice.org support page and a 3.x User Guide See also: Applix Graphics, CorelDRAW, inkscape, Star Office Drawing, tgif, Xara LX Note: Open Office is derived from Star Office and corresponding releases of both are very similar
Title and description: Open Office Presentation Graphics Description: presentation graphics component of Open Office office suite- select File -> New -> Presentation To run: athena% add -f ooffice (for new 3.1 release on Athena 10; not necessary on Athena 9.4) athena% ooffice [-ver 3.1] & (-ver switch for new 3.1 release) There is 2.x documentation: Getting Started guide, User Guide and entry point to other manuals; also the openoffice.org support page and a 3.x User Guide See also: Applix Presents, CorelDRAW, Magicpoint, Star Office Presentation Graphics Note: Open Office is derived from Star Office and corresponding releases of both are very similar
Title and description: orbisnap Description: VRML2/VRML97 3d scene viewer with an intuitive user interface; it can manage virtual scene viewpoints, save VRML files, run dynamic animations and connect to a remote server running the Matlab Virtual Reality Toolbox To run: athena% add orbisnap athena% orbisnap file.wrl (to view a file) athena% orbisnap http://web.mit.edu/sample/file.wrl (to view a URL) Vendor Web site There are 2 different, incompatible VRML types- VRML1, or Open Inventor format, viewable on Athena by ivview, and VRML2/VRML97, viewable by orbisnap or other VRML2 viewers. In order to allow the viewers to be configured for both of these in the same Web bowser, VRML files must have distinct mime types and extensions. For this reason, you should give your VRML1 files a .iv extension, even if you have been using .vrml or .wrl extensions previously. You don't need to change the header line in your VRML files however- if it's similar to #VRML V1.0 ascii you can leave it that way. Conversely, your VRML2 files should have a .wrl or .vrml extension, and a header line similar to #VRML V2.0 utf8 See also: FreeWRL, ivview
Title and description: POV-Ray Description: Persistence of Vision ray tracer- generates ray-traced images from .pov povray image description files. Generates images in GNU .png format by default To run: athena% add povray athena% povray +I file.pov options See the POV-Ray Web page, local html documentation, pdf reference manual and tutorial, and locally built demos, and more demos See also: ac3d, blender, K3DSurf, molden, platon, rayshade, Renderman, xv
Title and description: pstoedit Description: utility that allows conversion of PostScript files to a variety of editable formats (tgif, xfig, others) To run: athena% add sipb athena% pstoedit -f format infile.ps outfile See also: ghostview, gv, tgif, xfig
Title and description: raster Description: Andrew system editor for digitized pictures. Raster images can be created by reading in an X Window dump or by using MacPaint on the Mac To run: athena% add andrew athena% raster file.raster See also: ahelp, convert (ImageMagick), DjVu Libre utilities, ez, NetPBM Utilities, xwd
Title and description: rayshade Description: ray-tracing renderer that generates output images in Utah Raster Toolkit (rle) format. rayshade generates an rle image file that can be viewed with the xv image viewer. Input file is ASCII text, consisting of commands in rayshade internal language; in simple cases commands can be input directly on command line ( athena% echo "sphere 2 0 0 0" | rayshade > sphere.rle) To run: athena% add rayshade_v4.0 athena% cat file.ray | rayshade > file.rle There is an online manual in dvi format- see file /mit/rayshade/distrib/Doc/guide.dvi. See also the Rayshade Web page See also: NetPBM Utilities, POV-Ray, Renderman, xv
Title and description: Renderman Description: rendering engine and set of related utilities that can produce image files in a number of formats Licenses: we have 50 floating licenses To run: athena% add renderman athena% set_renderman athena% render file in the xterm that appears athena% set_demos to make a copy of some demos and tutorials in a temporary directory (type commands in xterm that appears). Please see README files in /tmp/renderman/examples and /tmp/renderman/tutorial for important configuration information To use Renderman Artist's Tools: athena% source /mit/renderman/set-environment followed by one of: athena% alfred athena% it & athena% slim & There is an online manual, tutorial See also: Maya, Open Inventor, POV-Ray, rayshade, Visualization Toolkit, xv Note: Renderman Artist's Tools are designed to interface to Maya. They are not very useful without this application
Title and description: Scribus Description: page layout application that can export directly to pdf. It is fully compliant with recent pdf standards To run: athena% add scribus athena% scribus & There is a home page, wiki, review article and documentation site. Local 1.3.3.11 information is here See also: Acrobat, FrameMaker, gimp, inkscape, ipe, latex, Xara LX
Title and description: Star Office Drawing Description: drawing component of Star Office office suite- select File -> New -> Drawing To run: athena% add soffice athena% soffice & There is 8.0 "what's new", 8.0 "getting started", Sun's Star Office site, the Star Office User Portal See also: Applix Graphics, CorelDRAW, GLE, Open Office Drawing, tgif
Title and description: Star Office Presentation Graphics Description: presentation graphics component of Star Office office suite- select File -> New -> Presentation To run: athena% add soffice athena% soffice & There is 8.0 "what's new", 8.0 "getting started", Sun's Star Office site, the Star Office User Portal See also: Applix Presents, CorelDRAW, Magicpoint, Open Office Presentation Graphics
Title and description: tgif Description: 2d structured drawing program To run: athena% add sipb athena% tgif file & There is information on the Web See also: CorelDRAW, dia, gimp, GLE, GNU plot utilities, Grace, inkscape, ipe, Open Office Drawing, pstoedit, Star Office Drawing, Xara LX, xcircuit, xfig, xpaint
Title and description: Xara LX Description: vector graphics drawing application To run: athena% add xaralx athena% add -f xaralx (to use the locker version on Athena 10- see Note: below) athena% xaralx & There is an author site and local documentation See also: CorelDRAW, dia, inkscape, ipe, Magicpoint, Open Office Drawing, Scribus, tgif, xcircuit Note: On Athena 10 machines, if you use the locally installed version (/usr/bin/xaralx), it won't run if your home directory is in AFS due to a design feature that is incompatible with AFS. You can work around this by running the version installed in the xaralx locker which has a workaround to avoid the problem
Title and description: xcircuit Description: drawing program specialized for generating publication-quality schematic circuit diagrams To run: athena% add xcircuit athena% xcircuit & There is an Author Web site with a reference manual, tutorial and other information See also: dia, GLE, eagle, Electric VLSI, hspice, inkscape, ipe, Magic, tgif, Xara LX, xfig, xpaint
Title and description: xdpr Description: prints the image contents of an X Window on a printer To run: athena% xdpr then after the cursor shape changes to a cross-hair, move it into the window you want to print and click any mouse button See also: xv, xwd
Title and description: xfig Description: menu-driven drawing program allowing the user to draw and manipulate objects interactively in an X Window To run: athena% add sipb athena% xfig & See also: CorelDRAW, dia, gimp, GLE, pstoedit, tgif, xcircuit, xpaint
Title and description: xpaint Description: drawing program, similar to MacDraw To run: athena% add graphics athena% xpaint & See also: CorelDRAW, dia, gimp, GLE, tgif, xcircuit, xfig
Title and description: xv Description: interactive, general-purpose graphics viewer that can display, convert and manipulate images in many native formats (including GIF, JPEG, TIFF, PBM, X11 bitmap) To run: athena% add graphics athena% xv file & there is an online manual; xv can be used to grab screenshots; right click on splash screen, then click on grab button for options See also: convert (ImageMagick), DjVu Libre utilities, eog, FWTools, gimp, NetPBM Utilities, rayshade, Renderman, xdpr, xwd
Title and description: xwd, xwud Description: xwd dumps the contents of an X Window image into a specially formatted dump file. xwud displays such a stored image in an X Window To run: athena% xwd -out tofile then after the cursor shape changes to a cross-hair, move it into the window you want to dump and click any mouse button athena% xwud -in fromfile See also: convert (ImageMagick), xdpr, xv
| Graphics (CAD) |
Title and description: ac3d Description: application for constructing 3d models of objects. Supports a native object description format and can export models in most common 3d image description formats To run: athena% add ac3d athena% ac3d & (for version linked dynamically to libGL.so) athena% ac3ds & (for version linked statically to Mesa) There is an author Web page and local online documentation See also: blender, FreeWRL, geomview, ivview, K3DSurf, Maya, OpenDX, Open Inventor, ParaView, POV-Ray, Pro-Engineer, Visualization Toolkit
Title and description: blender Description: 3d modeling, animation, rendering, post-production, interactive creation and playback application To run: athena% add blender athena% blender athena% blenderplayer [options] file.blend (to play a blender animation file file.blend) There is an author Web page and local tutorial See also: ac3d, Maya, OpenDX, ParaView, POV-Ray, Visualization Toolkit
Title and description: Maya Description: high-end modeling, visual effects and animation tool Licenses: we have 10 floating licenses To run: athena% add maya athena% maya There is a vendor site, local online documentation and local 6.0.1 release notes See also: ac3d, blender, Pro-Engineer, ParaView, Renderman, Visualization Toolkit Note: Maya is on Athena by courtesy of a license funded by the Architecture Department, and is running off a license server maintained by them. It is available "as is", with no end-user support. We cannot guarantee uninterrupted operation, nor that Maya will remain available on Athena if they decide to discontinue the license. Questions about this can be addressed to the 3partysw@mit.edu mailing list
Title and description: Pro-Engineer Description: high-end CAD/CAM package, used mostly in Mechanical Engineering Licenses: we have 450 floating licenses To run: athena% add ptc athena% proe athena% proe -ver wfire2 (for older Wildfire 2 version) Please see /mit/ptc_vwfire3/README.athena for additional information; new Wildfire 3 features are here MechE distributes Windows Wildfire for on-campus teaching use See also: ac3d, adina, Maya, QCad Note: To run Pro-Engineer on Athena 10 machines, you need to turn effects off (System -> Preferences -> Appearance -> Visual Effects)
Title and description: QCad Description: two dimensional CAD package, using Autocad dxf as native file format To run: athena% add qcad athena% qcad & There is local html and pdf help, vendor site help and a tutorial; main vendor site See also: Pro-Engineer
| Graphics (video) |
Title and description: mpeg_play Description: plays mpeg-1 encoded video files To run: athena% add graphics athena% mpeg_play file.mpg See also: xanim Note: X server needs to be in 8 bit mode to run this application. Login with Other Options, select restart X in 8 bit mode
Title and description: mplayer Description: plays video animations in multiple image formats including MPEG/VOB, ogg, wma/wmv, avi, asf, VDC, SVDC, DVD and others, and a variety of audio formats including mp3 To run: athena% add outland athena% mplayer options mrl (where mrl is a filename or media resource locator- see man page for more information) See also: mpg123, RealPlayer, xanim, xine, xmms
Title and description: sdr Description: displays live Internet video broadcasts To run: athena% add mbone athena% sdr & See also: mpeg_play, xanim
Title and description: xanim Description: plays video animations in multiple image formats including Amiga PFX & MovieSetter, AVI, DL, FLI, FLC, GIF87a, GIF89a, IFF, mpeg-1, Quicktime and RLS (Utah Raster Toolkit) To run: athena% add graphics athena% xanim file See also: mpeg_play, mplayer, sdr, xine
Title and description: xine Description: plays video animations in multiple image formats including MPEG, ogg, avi, asf, quicktime, VDC, SVDC, DVD To run: athena% add outland athena% xine options mrl (where mrl is a filename or media resource locator- see man page for more information) See also: mplayer, xanim

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