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** CONTACT INFO **
Linktool was written by David Broman, with code from other programs
written by Charlie Gunn and Toby Orloff. Any questions, comments or
bug reports should be directed to David. He will be graduating from
Rice University in June of 1993, so until then he can be reached via
e-mail at
davbro@rice.edu
He also maintains an account at The Geometry Center, University of
Minnesota, where he wrote Linktool. His e-mail address (which will
forward mail to Rice during the academic year) there is
davbro@geom.umn.edu
U.S. mail can be directed to:
RICE ADDRESS: (most preferable during the academic year)
Brown College
P.O. Box 2168
Houston, TX 77252
HOME ADDRESS: (second most preferable)
4330 W. Broward Blvd., Suite F
Plantation, FL 33317
GEOMETRY CENTER ADDRESS:
The Geometry Center
University of Minnesota
1300 S. 2nd St.
Minneapolis, MN 55454
** WHAT LINKTOOL DOES **
The submission is a copy of Linktool 2.0 still in progress. Repeat,
not finished!! It falls under the category of WORKS IN PROGRESS --
mathematics (though it's not a Mathematica notebook!). It can be used
to interactively enter and edit a knot or link, via mouse clicking, or
by entering braid notation or Conway notation. You can then click the
window into "Displayer" mode which evolves the link and re-displays it
either with a normal curve, a rope texture, or other textures. You
can then copy it to the pasteboard and paste it in some other
application like WriteNow.
It has been used here at the Geometry Center to produce pretty
pictures of links to include in published documents. Its pictures
were also used to illustrate an article in Science News.
** TECHNICAL STUFF **
Linktool 2.0 was developed under system 2.1. Included are the
executable "Linktool" plus 3 .nib files which must all reside in the
same directory. Also, the directory LinktoolHelp must reside in this
same directory, too. Under LinktoolHelp are the help files read in by
the help panel.
** IMPORTANT **
Linktool 2.0 is unfinished. A "finished" copy of Linktool 1.0 is
available for anonymous ftp at geom.umn.edu. When 2.0 is finished
(which will be before August 24, 1992), it will then be available
there instead.
Links can be saved in a number of file formats. If you use
the "Linktool" format, this may NOT be readable by the final version
of 2.0 (which may have a slightly different "Linktool" format).
However, the "Editor" and "Matrix" formats are simple text files which
WILL be readable by the final version of 2.0.
Finally, the help files included were written for 1.0, so they
will be outdated in some respects. Full documentation for 2.0 will be
available when it's finished.