IV Files

These are some examples of IV files. IV is the abbreviation for "Inventer", a file format used on SGI with a variety of programs.

IV files are:

• ASCII or BINARY
• Color
• 3D
• No compression
• 1 image

Reference:

the SGI web site

Programs to view an IV file include:

• ivview on an SGI computer;

Programs to convert an IV file to another format:

• IVCON
• IVREAD

Programs to convert another format to IV format:

• IVCON
• IVREAD

Files you may copy:

• cube_texture.iv;
• diamond.iv, a dodecahedron;
• dodec.iv, a dodecahedron;
• fish_faces.iv, a fish drawn with polygonal faces;
• human.iv, a stylized human figure;
• materials.iv, a shape using different materials;
• polyfish.iv, a fish;
• soccer.iv, a truncated icosahedron;
• spheres.iv, a plot of 3 spheres, which helped me figure out how to plot a set of points;
• spiralpoints.iv, a spiral on a sphere;
• tetrahedron.iv, a tetrahedron;
• tiler_3d.iv;
• two_shapes.iv;
• windmill.iv, an animated windmill;

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