From: Steve Vavasis Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 11:04:16 -0600 Subject: Mesh Generation Software I would like to announce the release of QMG1.1. QMG is free software available on the Web for fully automatic unstructured finite element mesh generation in two and three dimensions. It can generate meshes for complex polyhedral domains with nonmanifold features. It includes geometric modeling routines for polyhedral domains, two mesh generators and a finite element solver. QMG is written in primarily in C++ and is a collection of m-files and mex-files that run under Matlab 4.2. The new features of QMG1.1 (compared to QMG1.0) are: (1) In addition to running under Matlab, QMG1.1 can also run under Tcl/Tk. Tcl is a scripting language, and Tk is a GUI-building toolkit. Both were developed at UC-Berkeley/Sun Microsystems and are available on the Web. (2) QMG1.1 runs under Microsoft Windows NT as well as Unix. Windows NT (i386) users can download the QMG executables directly from the Web. (3) QMG1.1 uses VRML and a web browser for 3D graphics. (4) QMG1.1 includes a Delaunay-based boundary mesh generator as well as an octree-based volumetric mesh generator. (5) The 3D volumetric mesh generator in QMG1.1 runs much faster and produces higher quality meshes than QMG1.0. (6) QMG1.1 supports additional simplified file formats for I/O of geometric objects. For more information, please see: