Andy R. Haas					November 1994

NAME
	COMPUTE VOLUME - computes volume and surface area of a
			 geometry

SUMMARY
	Name		compute volume

	Type		output

	Inputs		geom

	Outputs		real
			real

	Parameters	Name			Type	Default
			Conversion Factor	float	1.0

DESCRIPTION
	This module accepts a geometry object (mesh, polyhedron,
	polytriangle, or sphere type) and outputs the object's
	volume and surface area.  The name of the object and its
	volume and area values are also printed to the terminal
	window in which AVS was started.

INPUTS
	Surface Geometry - geom

OUTPUTS
	Volume - real

	Area - real

PARAMETERS
	Conversion Factor - real

	This parameter tells how many units there are in one
	coordinate of the geometry.  With the default value 1.0,
	each geometry coordinate is considered 1 unit.  Thus the
	volume value is in terms of the geometry's original
	coordinate dimensions.

	If one coordinate unit of a geometry happens to represent
	5 microns for example, then Conversion Factor should be
	set to 5.  In this case the volume value would be in terms
	of cubic microns.

EXAMPLE
	This network assesses the volume and area of an isosurface.


		READ FIELD
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		ISOSURFACE
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	      GEOMETRY VIEWER   COMPUTE VOLUME