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News items appear now at the Developer site. The above links are now collected on the tools page.

• ModView has been modified to support copy-paste, surface tools, and others.
• XNS help page has been created.
• New technical notes:
  Overview of the Simulation Process, and
  File Format Reference.

• New technical notes:
  Block (2D Space-Time Compressible NS) Derivation, and
  Block (3D Space-Time Compressible NS) Derivation.

• Two entries in a new series of PDF technical notes are now available:
  Outflow Boundary Conditions, and
  GMRES Usage.

• Pager has returned from the dead, and is now available on ARC SGI workstations, with some limitations.
• Mixd2EnSight has been updated to generate EnSight 6.x Case files. In place of the usual out.var file, the new format uses a simpler case file, by default named out.case. In the data reader dialog in EnSight, select Case file format instead of the Ensight5, select the case file from the file list, and click Set Geometry button. Selection of the variable file is no longer necessary or possible.
• EnSight has been updated to version 6.2.1 on i0, and the license renewed until February 28, 2000.

• After the IRIX 6.2 upgrade, the spaceball drivers became unstable, and the spaceball support was disabled in sgi32 versions of Visual3, pV3 and ModView. The ivie, which is running IRIX 6.4, should not be affected.
• Visual3 and pV3 were merged into a single code base, so that some features available previously in one of them are now available in both. Namely, Visual3 handles RNG detection in a robust way, while pV3 can now process axisymmetric data sets. The cell-based visualization is still only possible in Visual3, however.

• ModView reached a semi-useable state and is now available for use.

• EnSight 6.1 has been installed on ivie. The update supports cell-centered variables (as soon as Mixd2EnSight is updated...), adds many predefined functions that help in variable creation, supports VRML, MPEG and JPEG output, and contains various other improvements.

• EnSight 5 licenses have expired. EnSight 6 should be used on both ivie and i0.
• Bibtex databases on this page have been updated on January 8, 1998.

• EnSight has been updated to version 6.0.3 on ivie. Among the new features is the support for stereo display in individual windows.

• EnSight 6.0.2 has been installed on ivie.

• New version of pV3 (1.25) has been installed. This version adds support for extension input devices, and the new pv3server can now be controlled by the Spaceball and Magellan controllers in a manner similar to Visual3.

• The Magellan controllers are finally installed on i0 and i2. They can now also be used to control 2D window view in Visual3, in addition to the usual 3D window control.
• EnSight 6.0 has been announced and should be shipped before the end of the summer. It should take better advantage of multiprocessing capabilities of the ONYX server. It will include a Postscript output option and a new GUI.

• Bibtex databases on this page have been updated on April 9, 1997.
• The Logitech Magellan 3D controllers are installed for now on i4 and i6, while we wait for longer cables needed to connect them to ONYX'es. The default version of Visual3 now supports these devices.
• Visual3 library has been updated to version 2.30. The front end now supports the axisymmetric keyword, which causes generation of 3D prism or hexahedral mesh from 2D triangular or quadrilateral mesh. Use resolution and sweep parameters to control the behavior of this option.

• A problem with EnSight crashing the i0 server has been tracked down to its lack of support for main window sizes larger than 1280x1024 pixels (the i0 display can accommodate 1500x1200 windows). The problem should be fixed in 6.0 release, and an interim solution of limiting the size of the EnSight viewer has been deployed.
• We have received two Logitech Magellan 3D controllers which are supported by Visual3. These should be available soon on the i0 and i2 machines.

• EnSight has been updated to version 5.5.4. This version extends the MPGS file format which leads to considerable savings in storage space for cases involving changing geometry with fixed connectivity. Mixd2EnSight has been updated to produce the MPGS files using the new format.
• Another new feature, present since version 5.5.1, is the support for stereo goggles. The stereo view display is toggled with F12 key. The F10 and F11 make adjustments to the stereo projection.

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