////////////////////////////////////////////////// ///// Fukui Renderer ///// ///// DAWN (Drawer for Academic WritiNgs) ///// ///// ///// ////////////////////////////////////////////////// Authors: Satoshi Tanaka (Ritsumeikan University (Rits), JAPAN) Minato Kawaguti (Fukui University, JAPAN) Hiroshi Hasui (Fukui University, JAPAN) Yoshitaka Kawabata (Fukui University, JAPAN) Takeshi Konya (Fukui University, JAPAN) Tetsuji Nishimura (Fukui University, JAPAN) Masahiro Noguchi (Fukui University, JAPAN) Kensuke Ohtubo (Fukui University, JAPAN) Yasuhide Sawada (Fukui University, JAPAN) Masayasu Kawabata (Fukui University, JAPAN) E-mail: stanaka@media.ritsumei.ac.jp * About DAWN Fukui Renderer DAWN (Drawer for Academic WritiNgs) is a renderer, which reads 3D geometrical data and visualize them. It is a vectorized 3D PostScript processor. It aims at precise technical drawing of complicated objects. It performs geometrical hidden line/surface removal and calculates out all visible parts of the 3D data before drawing. This drawing algorithm realizes device-independent technical high quality of vectorized graphics. 3D Data files should be generated by a modeler or by hands separately. If you use DAWN as a visualizer of, say, a simulator of physical experiments, the simulator application itself is recognized as a modeler. An important feature of DAWN is that it has been developed to visualize 3D data generated by a high-energy experimental detector simulator "GEANT4". How to use DAWN as a visualizer of GEANT 4 is also described below. * Quick installation guide In most of Unix systems (Linux/Cygwin/MacOSX,etc), the default Makefile, i.e., "Makefile.default", should be available: % cp Makefile.default Makefile % make clean % make guiclean % make % su # make install Then DAWN is installed into /usr/local/bin. Note 1: In Cygwin the final "strip" command fails. But you can ignore this error. If you do not like the error, edit only one line of "Makefile.default" as follows. "EXEC = dawn" ===> "EXEC = dawn.exe" Note 2: If you need only PostScript-processing function i.e. if you do not want to include OpenGL-visualization mode, you can use "Makefile.min" instead of "Makefile.default". If the above default Makefiles are not available in your system unfortunately, you need to execute a proper configure script. For details, see ./DOC/About_DAWN.html. * BUG In recent Linux (RedHat 8/9, FederaCore), the X-Window mode does not work. (If you find how to fix this bug, please inform to Satoshi Tanaka (stanaka@media.ritsumei.ac.jp).) Use OpenGL the mode instead. In Mac OSX, X-Window mode works. * For more details... For more details, see document in the directory ./DOC, where some documents are placed: ./DOC/About_DAWN.html : INSTALLATION manual and USAGES of DAWN ./DOC/CUSTOMIZE : How to customize behavior of DAWN with environmental variables ./DOC/DAWN_HISTORY.html : Development history ./DOC/G4PRIM_FORMAT_24.tex: Detaild description on DAWN data format In directory ./TOOLS, some simple but useful tools for DAWN are placed. For details, see ./TOOLS/README. Enjoy DAWN, please!!
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