Contents

• Introduction
  • What is GRAPE?
  • Difference to Existing Programs
• History
  • Changes and New Features in Version 5.3
• What Basic Concepts are Implemented
  • Triangulations And Refinement Methods
  • Displaying Data Hierarchies
  • Time Dependent Structures
  • Extending Grape
  • Projects
• How to use a Grape Program
  • Different Types of Interactive Control Elements
    • The Mouse in GRAPE
    • Interactives
      • Layer
      • Button
      • Inputs
      • Slider
      • Ruler
      • Time-slider and Time-ruler
      • Scrollbar
      • List
      • FileList
      • Spline-Editor
  • Manager and Graphic Device
    • Graphic Device
    • Control Device
  • Controlling and Viewing
    • The Five GRAPE-Menus
    • General Interaction Strategy
    • Get the Feeling
    • The ``Manager'' Menu
    • Data Hierarchy Tree and Displaying Concept
      • General Functions
      • Walking Through the Time
      • Hierarchy Management
      • Manipulating Scene Nodes
    • The ``Light'' Menu
      • The lightsources
    • The ``Surface'' Menu
    • The ``Trans'' Menu
      • Object Transformation
      • Translation
      • Rotation
      • How to use the ``camera''
    • The ``Options'' Menus
    • ResourceDevice and Manager
    • Output Facilities
      • The PostScript Driver
      • Videos and Bitmaps
  • The Concept of Time
    • What Does ``time'' Mean?
    • Classes Managing Dynamic Processes
      • TimeScene
      • TimeObject
      • Surface
    • Creating Classes That Implement Dynamic Processes
    • The Class TimeStep Extending Key-Frame Techniques
    • Adaptive Strategy for Timedependent PDE
    • Time Dependent Interactives
  • Projects
    • What is a Project?
    • Advantages of the Concept
    • Using a Project
    • Overview of Existing Projects
• Programming with Grape
  • Object-Oriented Programming
    • Sequential Versus Object-Oriented Programming
    • Classes, Instances and Methods
  • GRAPE
    • The GRAPE Function
    • Memory Management in GRAPE
    • GRAPE Datatypes and Utility Functions
    • GRAPE Math Functions
  • Creating a New Class
    • Design and Implementation
    • Naming Conventions
    • The Data Structure for a New Class
    • Adding a Class to the System
    • The Rot2d Example
  • Writing Methods
    • Class and Instance Methods
    • Adding a Method to the System
    • Exception Handling
    • Memory Management
      • "new-instance", "delete" and "free"
      • "list-alloc" and "list-free"
    • Copying Instances
      • Copy Methods
      • Refcount Handling
    • Display Methods
    • Methods for Debugging
      • Debugging Class and Instance Lists
      • Debugging Instances
      • The Methods "get-info" and "follow"
    • The "universal" Method
    • More Methods for Rot2d
  • Interactive Elements
    • What is Available
    • Creating Items
    • The new_item Function
      • The new_item Tags
    • Adding Items to the Manager
    • Display Methods Using Items
    • A User-Interface for Rot2d
    • Putting It All Together
    • Problems of the Interface
  • Projects
    • How Projects Work
    • Creating Projects
    • The "setup" Method
    • Using or Adding a Project
    • ``Unusing'' or Removing a Project
    • Project Rotate
      • A New User-Interface
      • The Rotate Setup-Method
      • The Rotate Add-Method
      • The Rotate Init-Method
    • A Standard Main Program
  • The GRAPE XDR Archiving System
    • Features of the System
    • XDR Functions
      • Basic XDR Functions
      • Basic GRAPE XDR Functions
      • Structures
      • Strings
      • Arrays
    • XDR Methods
      • g_xdr_instance
      • g_xdr_superclass
    • Version Control
    • XDR Streams
      • Files
      • Pipes and Sockets
    • More Examples
      • Rot2d "xdr"
      • TimeStep "xdr"
      • Triang2d "xdr"
    • Problems
      • Memory Management
      • Strings and Opaque Data
      • Function Pointers
      • G_List and GraphicDevice
      • char and short Arrays
      • Limitations of the Implementation
      • Compile or Link Problems
• Geometry Classes
  • Points
  • Curves
    • Triang1d
      • Memory Methods on Triang1d
      • Display Methods on Triang1d
      • I/O Methods on Triang1d
      • Other Methods on Triang1d
    • Bnd_Curve
      • Memory Methods on Bnd_Curve
      • Display Methods on Bnd_Curve
      • I/O Methods on Bnd_Curve
      • Debug Methods on Bnd_Curve
      • Other Methods on Bnd_Curve
    • Cons
      • Memory Methods on Cons
      • Display Methods on Cons
      • I/O Methods on Cons
      • Debug Methods on Cons
      • Other Methods on Cons
  • Surfaces and 2D Finite Elements
    • Triang2d
      • Memory Methods on Triang2d
      • Display Methods on Triang2d
      • I/O Methods on Triang2d
      • Other Methods on Triang2d
    • Fe2d
      • Memory Methods on Fe2d
      • Display Methods on Fe2d
      • I/O Methods on Fe2d
      • Other Methods on Fe2d
    • Adapt2d
      • Memory Methods on Adapt2d
      • Display Methods on Adapt2d
      • I/O Methods on Adapt2d
      • Other Methods on Adapt2d
    • Geom2d
      • Memory Methods on Geom2d
      • Display Methods on Geom2d
      • I/O Methods on Geom2d
      • Debug Methods on Geom2d
      • Other Methods on Geom2d
  • Volumes and 3D Finite Elements
    • Triang3d
      • General Methods on Triang3d
      • The Methods Read, Write and Free
      • Special Methods on Triang3d
      • Extracting the Boundaries of Triang3d-Instances
    • Fe3d
      • Special Methods on Fe3d
  • General Meshes
    • Revisiting numerical data and visualization requirements
    • Description of the mesh concept
      • Description of the geometric element type
    • Methods on Mesh3d
    • Conversion Methods
    • Examples for the implementation of element types
    • Mesh2D
    • Methods on Mesh2d
  • Using the colorbar
    • The structure of colorbar
    • Methods on colorbar
• Supervising Classes
  • The Data Hierarchy Tree
    • Scenes - A Collection of Geometry Objects
      • Methods on Scene
      • Methods for Scene handling
      • Suprop
    • Chain
      • Memory Methods on Chain
      • Other Methods on Chain
    • TimeScene
      • Memory Methods on TimeScene
      • Other Methods on TimeScene
  • Moving and Tracing
    • The Concept of Moving and Tracing
    • Calculating a Move
    • Visualizing the Trace
    • Clouds
    • Streaklines
  • TimeStep
    • Memory Methods on TimeStep
    • Methods for Creating TimeStep Sequences
    • Other Methods on TimeStep
  • Dynamic Objects Supervising TimeStep
    • Time_Object
      • The Time_Object Structure
      • Time_Parm
      • Memory Methods on Time_Object
      • Display Methods on Time_Object
      • Compute Methods on Time_Object
      • I/O Methods on Time_Object
      • Time_Object Task, Frame, Time and File Handling
      • Other Methods on Time_Object
    • Time_Curve
      • The Time_Curve Structure
      • Curve_Parm
      • Memory Methods on Time_Curve
      • Other Methods on Time_Curve
    • Surface
      • The Surface Structure
      • Reflection_Control
      • Memory Methods on Surface
      • Display Methods on Surface
      • I/O Methods on Surface
      • Surface Task, Reflection and Geom Status Handling
      • Surface Methods for Creating Triangulations
      • Other Methods on Surface
    • Surface_Build
      • Memory Methods on Surface_Build
      • Compute Methods on Surface_Build
      • I/O Methods on Surface_Build
      • Other Methods on Surface-Build
    • Explicit
      • The Explicit Structure
      • Domain_Parm
      • Memory Methods on Explicit
      • Compute Methods on Explicit
      • I/O Methods on Explicit
      • Other Methods on Explicit
    • Amandus
      • The Amandus Structure
      • Memory Methods on Amandus
      • Display Methods on Amandus
      • Compute Methods on Amandus
      • I/O Methods on Amandus
      • Other Methods on Amandus
• Projects
  • Projects for Continuum-Mechanics
    • Project Move-Trace
    • The Grid Editing Projects
      • The Project tr2d-edit
      • The Project grid-edit
      • An Example for Generating a Grid
    • Project Probe
  • Projects for Differential Geometry
    • Project Time-Object
      • The Time-Object User-Interface
      • Time and Variable Rulers
      • A Time-Object Example
    • Project Curve
      • Using Variables in Functions
      • A Time-Curve Example
    • Project Surface
      • Working With Several Geometries
      • Reflecting Time-Dependent Data
      • Handling the Geom2d Instances
    • Project Build
      • The Build Input File Format
      • Surface-Build Examples
    • Project Explicit
      • An Explicit Example
      • User-Defined Domain Transformations
      • Replacing the "compute-explicit" Method
    • Project Amandus
      • An Amandus Example
    • Project Dual
      • The Minimization and Conjugation Algorithms
      • Configuration Options
      • Creating Initial Triangulations
    • Project Refine
    • Project Diri
  • Misc Projects
    • Project Model
    • RGBVideo
      • Images
      • RGBVideo
    • Video Recorders and GRAPE
    • Scene-Tree
    • CoordSys
• Interactive Classes and Devices
  • Interactive Classes
    • General Structure
      • Menu concepts
      • Adding and Removing of Items
      • Size and Position of Items
      • Event handling
      • Redraw Mechanism
      • Actions
    • Class Hierarchy
    • Classes and Methods
      • Bar1d
      • Button
      • CheckField
      • Checkbox
      • Color_Sel
      • ComboButton
      • Cycle_Button
      • FileList
      • Function_Bar1d
      • Function_Ruler
      • Function_Slider
      • Group
      • Input
      • Interactive
      • Item
      • Layer
      • Manager
      • Matrix_Edit
      • MethLayer
      • MethList
      • Rectangle
      • Ruler
      • Scrollbar
      • Slider
      • Spline1d
      • Spline_Editor
      • StaticText
      • Step_Button
      • Textmessage
      • XList
      • XList_Button
    • Utility Functions
  • Graphic Devices
    • Device
    • GraphicDevice
      • Primitive Graphic Routines
      • Global Settings and Matrix Handling
      • Display Lists
      • Texturing
      • Lightsource Handling
      • The attribute Function
      • Methods on GraphicDevice
    • An Example Low-Level Display Method
  • Resource file .graperc
    • General usage of ResourceDev files
    • Methods on class ResourceDev
    • Utility Functions on class ResourceDev
    • Code Example : Resource Device Implementation in the Postscript Driver
• Utility Classes and Functions
  • Utility Classes
    • Linked Lists
      • Basic List Methods and Functions
      • Methods for Instance Lists
    • List_Of_Inst
      • Memory Methods on List_Of_Inst
      • Other Methods on List-Of-Inst
  • Utility Functions
    • Memory Functions
      • Basic Memory Functions
      • Fast Functions for Large Numbers of Small Blocks
      • Functions for allocating/freeing memory of data-arrays
      • Functions for allocating/freeing memory of pointer-arrays
      • Functions for allocating/freeing memory of arrays of GRAPE datatypes
    • Functions on VEC2
    • Functions on VEC3
    • Functions on VEC4
    • Matrix Functions
    • Functions for Arrays and n-dim Vectors
    • Transformation Functions
    • Function Interpreter Functions
    • String Functions
    • Method String Functions
    • Swap Functions
    • Drawing Routines
    • Time Functions
    • General Utility Macros
    • Math Utility Functions
    • Functions for Triang2d
    • Complex Functions
      • Complex Constants
      • Complex Functions with one Complex Argument
      • Complex Functions with two Complex Arguments
      • Complex Functions with one Complex and one Real Argument
      • Other Complex Functions
• References
• Index
• About this document ...

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