GETTING STARTED - A BRIEF TUTORIAL 

This document explains how to access, use, and copy the various software, image, and text files located on this CD-ROM. The following terms and abbreviations are explained in the glossary that is included on the CD-ROM. NCSA (National Center for Supercomputing Applications) Mosaic and other World Wide Web (WWW) software allow the viewer to read and display individual image and HTML text files. Included in the readme1.htm file are directions for copying Mosaic and other software to your PC/Windows, Macintosh, and (or) UNIX platforms. Readme1.txt is the standard text version of readme1.htm. Stand-alone movies are linked graphic interchange format (GIF) images for viewing on Macintosh and PC Windows computers. Because the MPEG format movies we created had poor visual quality, we decided not to include them on the CD-ROM. The EarthVision stand-alone model showing 3-D porosity for the Sussex "B" sandstone is designed to run on IRIS workstations. Your computer's ability to view the images may be limited by its random access memory (RAM); it may help to close any unnecessary programs and open windows.

Note: Menu items can be selected either by using a mouse to click on the desired title banner at the top of Mosaic (or other network browsing software) documents, or by clicking on highlighted text and (or) images that have been labeled for this purpose. Scroll bars located at the bottom and (or) sides of documents, images, and movies are used for incrementing or paging through the items.

Insert the CD ROM in your CD-ROM reader. Text and images are viewed using network browsing software. Text files are stored in the "ssx_txt" directory; links among these HTML files are shown in the table of contents and included in most displays. While many are saved as text files that can be opened using most word processing software, the WWW browsing display abilities result in much cleaner viewing. The movies, located in the "movie" directory, display 3-D porosity and permeability across the House Creek field. These are animated by clicking on the *.MOV icons or file names. Movies can also be accessed from text hooks in some of the HTML files. The stand-alone 3-D porosity model will only run on IRIS workstations and on SUN workstations that possess a special graphics template. The (zipped) ssxporos.demo.Z 3-D model is located in the "IRIS" directory and can be started by opening the evview.Z file (zipped EarthVison View program).

The Home Page, or start of the Mosaic document (or other network browsing software) can generally be invoked by double-clicking the Mosaic name or icon. Once the browsing software is initiated, start this 3-D CD-ROM publication by opening the homepage.htm file under the open local or other file access command. These are commonly located under the File banner located at the top of your computer screen. We recommend that you peruse these menu items so that you will know your viewing, printing (also under File), and file-saving options. Depending on your computer system, size of the open window can be adjusted using the arrow key.

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