%%name: maverik

%%short-description: Virtual reality micro kernel
 
%%full-description: Maverik supports 3D environments and
interactions with those environments. It uses Mesa or Open GL to
perform low-level rendering, but can do much more on top of that. It
is, however, a developers toolkit/framework; it is not designed as an
end user application.

The system is open-ended in how its representation of different
models. It uses call back functions, rather than importing
and converting data to its own formats; this means it can be adapted
relatively easily to widely differing application data structures
without forcing particular representations on the implementor. 

For example, if you have a sim in which different parts of your model are
varying dynamically but in ways that cannot be represented using the
normal affine transformations (eg deformable objects), then Maverik lets
you use the dynamically changing data directly to generate images.

It also contains support for a variety of 3D input designs, and
various kinds of displays (including stereo).

%%category: development, graphics

%%license: GPL

%%maintainer: Jon Cook <cookj@cs.man.ac.uk>

%%interface: Library

%%updated: Feb 16 2000

%%keywords: development, virtual reality, kernel

%%programs: 

%%GNU: yes

%%web-page: http://aig.cs.man.ac.uk/systems/Maverik/

%%support:

%%doc: User manual included; user tutorial included; user
 demonstrations available from
 http://aig.cs.man.ac.uk/download/maverik-download.html

%%developers: Jon Cook <cookj@cs.man.ac.uk>, Adrian West, Tim Davis, Simon Gibson, Toby
Howard, Roger Hubbold, Martin Keates, Alan Murta, Steve Pettifer
<maverik@aig.cs.man.ac.uk>
 
%%contributors: See documentation for list of contributors

%%sponsors: UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)

%%source: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu

%%debian:

%%redhat: http://aig.man.cs.ac.uk/ftp/aig/Maverik/maverik-5.3-1.src.rpm

%%repository:

%%related:

%%source-language:

%%supported-languages:

%%use-requirements: Mesa, OpenGL

%%build-prerequisites:

%%weak-prerequisites:

%%source-prerequisites:

%%version: 5.3 released 17 Jan 2000

%%announce-list: aig-annouce@aig.man.ac.uk

%%announce-news:

%%help-list: maverik-users@aig.man.ac.uk

%%help-news: 

%%dev-list: maverik-users@aig.man.ac.uk

%%dev-news:

%%bug-list: bug-maverik@gnu.org










 





