1. Purpose of the program:

   TriView is a compact Windows 32-bit utility
   for Viewing/Converting 3D Triangle Meshes

   TriView is capable of:

   - reading RAW, TPO, NFF, Wavefront-OBJ, AutoCAD-DXF, and Povray-INC files
   - instant viewing from any angle in Wireframe or Flatshaded-Mode
   - export to Wavefront-OBJ, RAW-Triangles, or Povray Smooth_Triangles format
   - handling HUGE files (>64000 Faces)


2. Installation:
   
   No additional installation required,
   just unzip the files from the archive.
   
   The archive should contain
   
   triview.exe    main executable
   triview.hlp    windows help file
   teapot.obj     sample mesh-object
   func2raw.awk   awk-script for generating 3d-Function-Meshes
   raw2pov.awk    awk-script for calculating vertex-normals
   readme.txt     this file
   
   To run the program you will need at least
   the main executable triview.exe.


3. Status and distribution of the program:

   TriView is Freeware and freely distributable.


4. How to contact the author:
   
   You may contact the author via e-mail:
   Jan Weber <jan.w@iname.com>
   
   or visit the authors website at:
   http://members.xoom.com/jweber/
