looking for a 3D viewing program, and 3130 manuals

[Mark Phillips]

I have two requests:

1. Does anyone have (or know where I can get) a simple 3D polygon
   viewing program for the 3130?  It should read up to several
   thousand polygons in 3-space (in my case they will all be
   triangles) from a file, and then let me view them in real-time.
   The format of the input file is not important, since I can generate
   it in whatever form is necessary.  The viewing should be
   interactive --- I want to be able to turn the picture around, zoom
   in and out, etc, by moving the mouse.  Since the 3130 can render
   only a small number of polygons in real-time, the program should be
   able to switch between displaying a shaded image or just a
   wire-mesh diagram (consisting of the edges of the polygons).
   
   This seems so basic to what the IRIS can do that I am surprised
   that such a program doesn't come bundled with the machine. (It's
   much simpler than a flight simulator!)  If anyone out there has
   access to something like this which you can give me, I would
   appreciate it.  I would prefer to have the source code, but I'll
   take anything I can get.

2. Do any of you who have graduated from the 3000 series to bigger and
   better things have any old manuals that you don't need and would be
   willing to give me?  I have access to a 3130 in a lab in another
   department, and I do most of my programming while rlogged into it
   from the Sun in my office, which is in another building.  I do this
   for convenience, but it's a real nuisance to have to make a trip
   across campus every time I want to look something up.  I would
   therefore like to have my own copy of the Programming Guide and
   Reference Guide for the graphics library (Version 4.0).  The
   document number is 007-11-1-040 (for both the Programming Guide,
   which is Vol I, and the Reference Guide, which is Vol II).  I would
   greatly appreciate it, and will gladly reimburse you for the cost
   of sending them to me.  I called our local SGI sales office and was
   told they no longer have these manuals.  I could of course make
   photocopies, but before going to the trouble I thought I'd see if
   anyone has any to spare.

Please email any responses directly to me, since I'm not always able
to keep up with this newsgroup.  Thanks!

Mark Phillips			  mbp at lakisis.umd.edu   (arpanet)
Department of Mathematics         (301) 454-7071
University of Maryland	          
College Park, Maryland  20742