The Geometry Center was amathematics research and education center at theUniversity of Minnesota. It was established by theNational Science Foundation in the late 1980s and closed in 1998. The focus of the center's work was the use ofcomputer graphics andvisualization for research and education inpure mathematics andgeometry.[1]
The center's founding director wasAl Marden. Richard McGehee directed the center during its final years. The center's governing board was chaired byDavid P. Dobkin.[1]
Much of the work done at the center was for the development ofGeomview, a three-dimensionalinteractive geometry program. This focused on mathematical visualization with options to allowhyperbolic space to be visualised. It was originally written forSilicon Graphics workstations, and has been ported to run onLinux systems; it is available for installation in most Linux distributions through the package management system.Geomview can run underWindows usingCygwin and underMac OS X.
Geomview is built on the Object Oriented Graphics Library (OOGL). The displayed scene and the attributes of the objects in it may be manipulated by the graphical command language (GCL) of Geomview. Geomview may be set as a default 3-D viewer forMathematica.[2]
Geomview was used in the construction of mathematical movies including:
Other notable software developed at the Center included:
Richard McGehee, the center's director, has stated that the website was one of the first one hundred websites ever published.[3]
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