Cosmo™ Player installation

http://cic.nist.gov/vrml/cosmoplayer.html

Download installation file from site:

Nothing special for installation beside a question about “unsupported software”.

That question MUST be answered ‘YES’and Internet Explorer MUST be ticked on the next dialog.

A plot of rutile

currentviewpoint

pick viewpoint

seekzoom rotate pan

preferences

clicking on an atomwith the seek functionmagnifies the imageand makes that atomthe centre of rotation

if an ugly messageappears upon closing

Cosmo, play withoptions in preferences

Close Cosmo

(1) Click viewand then “Full screen”on the pull-down menu

To get a full screen drawing

(2) Clicking on the trianglewill get the tool band to disappear

To see again the tool bandClick on the little triangle

To see the regular menus at the top,bring the cursor to about here

Getting out of thefull-screen mode

Full screen mode giveshigh resolution on screen copies

To save a plot screen to e.g. PowerPoint

(1) Hold down <ALT> while depressing

<PRINT SCREEN>(2) In PowerPoint, hold down <CTRL> while

depressing “V”.

To edit the plote.g. add lettering,

do the above,but in MS PAINT.The plot can then

be saved in a varietyof formats

To capture a VRML filefor later 3D viewing,rename this file while

the plot is being displayed.Failing that, the file willbe deleted upon closing

the plot window.

If Internet Explorer questions the wisdom of openingVRML plot files from your own hard disk, click on

“Tools”, then “Internet options”, “Advanced”,tick the checkbox as shown below

and depress “Apply”.

END of CosmoPlayer tutorial