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Geomview and OOGL are part of an ongoing effort at the Geometry Center
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to provide interactive 3D graphics software which is particularly
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appropriate for displaying the kinds of objects and doing the kinds of
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operations of interest in mathematics research and education. You can
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compute an OOGL data file of a mathematical object that would be
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difficult or impossible to build a model of in the real world. In
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geomview, besides examining an object in ordinary Euclidean 3-space,
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you can look at objects in hyperbolic 3-space and Euclidean 4-space.
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The hyperbolic model is the projective one, where geodesics are
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straight lines and isometries are represented as 4x4 projective
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matrices. While geomview is tailored for mathematical visualization,
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it is written to be extensible and can serve as a general-purpose
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tool. Its functionality can be extended in an almost unlimited fashion
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by external modules.
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