See http://www.danger-island.com/~dav/g3dav/ for the latest information. I'll append the text of this page below also, but it may not be as up-to-date.
See INSTALL in this distro for install information
g3dav: GNU 3-D Anaglyphic Viewer
3-D for the people
G3dav is a Linux GTK+ application which will allow you to view and rotate 3 Dimensional objects using cheap anaglyphic (red-cyan) glasses. This application is currently in a usable alpha-state, and I intend to add many features soon. This is free software and covered by the GNU Public License.
You may currently load images from a file in Wavefront Object format. There is also the beginnings of support for molecular PDB files and 3 value data set CSV files.
Anaglyphic glasses may be found in various places, if anyone dicovers an online source for ordering them, please tell me so I may share the info here.
Install
- Unpack the file with
tar xzvf <filename>
and this will create a ./g3dav directory.
2.Enter this directory and run the typical
./configure; make; make install
This is my first attempt at using ./configure and Makefile.in. Please correct me if you see something I am doing wrong.
Use The basic concept is to don a pair of anaglyphic glasses, load a 3D object file and use your mouse to rotate the object. The only object file with solid support is Wavefront Object format. A couple of .obj files are included in the ./g3dav directory and it is trivial to create more. There is preliminary support for .pdb (molecule) files and .csv (comma separated value) files, but this is still under development. The latter is intended for data visualization.
You may need to adjust the red/cyan colors to match your glasses' filters, or you may need to adjust the default anaglyphic parameters to get the best 3-D effect. Menu/Toolbar option are provided for these tasks.
Support
Please join the mailing list for support. To join the list send email to
with the subject of
subscribe g3dav
Future Directions
I have a number of planned enhancements g3dav and other ticklish urges. Here are a few:
- Rewrite as a GNOME application and possibly KDE and possibly switch to C++.
- Finish and enhance CSV data visualization
- Add ability to create and edit OBJ files
- Add german language support
- Create a 3D game. Something like battlezone or a 1st person asteroids would be cool. But I'll probably start with a 3D nightdriver.
History
G3dav began almost a decade ago when I read a paper published in the academic journal "Computers in Physics" which outlined the algorithm for 3D anaglyphical transformation. This became a Turbo C++ DOS program which simply rendered the results of several chaos functions statically on the screen (no user interaction). I'll make this program available too, if I ever find the executable or source code again :).
Next, when Sun's JDK 1.0 came out, I took Sun's example model viewer applet and merged it with my anaglyphic code . Sun's applet allowed the user to rotate a 3D model as a projection onto the 2D screen, so now I had user interaction.
It languished in this manner for many years until recently (end of June 1999) when I decided I wanted to create a GNOME open source anaglyphic tool.
Contact: email dav@danger-island.com