## Introduction

Grid3D is the latest and greatest version of the FeatFlow and Feast preprocessing tool. It has evolved into a piece of software quite different (and hopefully much better) from its predecessor DeViSoR?2, so we strongly recommend you actually read this manual before working with it. Instead of printing it out, you can always access it via the help menu from inside the Grid3D tool.

Grid3D bears little to no resemblance to its predecessors. Additionally, it's 3D by default. However, if you stick to the z=0 plane (which is generally the case when special 2D features are involved), you can use it as a 2D tool without any problems whatsoever.

Grid3D is free software, and will be released under the GPL as soon as this beta test is finished. Feel free to modify the code to suit your needs. If you need a programmer's guide, stick to the 'well-documented' javadocs.

As Grid3D is quite a monster (at the time of writing this manual, the sources were 90000+ lines of code), we do not claim it is free of bugs. So, whenever you come across one of these dirty little buggers, please send an email to the authors including a proper description on how to reproduce the bug. Also, try the BUGLIST and TODO files in the installation directory to figure out if the bug has already been reported.

## About...

Grid3D was implemented by

- Dominik Göddeke
- Thomas Rohkämper
- Tom Vollerthun
- André Braun

This manual was written by Dominik Göddeke and Thomas Rohkämper.