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Topmodel2 (again)

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From: John Nolan
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 12:45
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Hello All,

Does anyone know about this (potentially) brilliant 3D vector graphics
program ?

  (St. PV are you reading this ? Have you been in touch, recently, with your
Italian friend, who, I believe is/was one of the authors ?)

I say "potentially", because I almost get it to work consistently, but fail
to be able to render surfaces in a repeatable mannner.

It is most frustrating. This is the only problem I have found, so far, that
defeats me.

Is there a small group of you out there who would like to see TopModel2
resurrected as a flagship RISCOS program (liie Sibelius was and perhaps
TechWriter and ProCAD still are - I don't know about RiscCAD) ?

St. MartinW, are you reading me ? Is this a program you could consder adding
to your stable ?

I believe that TopModel2 was designed to be modular.

Sadly, I don't have the programming ability. But I could be a beta tester. 

Are there any younger RISCOS devotees who would be interested ?

Cerilica seemed to leave the whole thing in the lurch.

Is the source code available ?

If not, it possible to reconstitute source code (reverse engineer is the
term, I think) ?

What about problems of copyright ?

I would be willing to send someone a copy of what I have, assuming that
there is not a copyright problem that someone will defend.

etc. etc.  ........

John N.

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