We recommend to start with compilation and linking of SW3D Fortran 77 packages. Instructions how to compile and link executable programs are included in the description of each package. Instructions how to run programs using the history files are also given in the documentation of each package. In the next step we recommend to choose, study and run the history file (*.h) or Perl script (*.pl) that seems to be the nearest one to the problem you want to study (see package DATA). You may find useful a step by step example how to run history file len-mod.h. If you wish to prepare your own model of a geological structure, we again recommend to choose a similar model in the package DATA and to modify it towards your new model of the geological structure. Never forget to check your new model by program modchk.for.
If you wish to compile programs grdfft.for, grdran2d.for, grdran.for, matmul.for, matlin.for, matfun.for, matinv.for, smpower.for, smeigen.for, trsmsm.for (of package FORMS) and programs crtpts.for, green.for (of package CRT) you need also few subroutines of the Numerical Recipes and the corresponding licence. References to subroutine files required by each of the above mentioned main programs are included at the end of the file containing the program. The subroutines from Numerical Recipes required by the above mentioned programs are collected in package NR.
Some Fortran compilers (like Linux g77 ver.0.5.20, Linux fort77 ver.1.13, or very old HP-UX (ver.8) or Apple Macintosh compilers) do not adhere to the ANSI Fortran 77 standard to that extent they could correctly compile packages like MODEL or CRT (they incorrectly compile DO loops). HP-UX ver.10.20 compiler fort77 does not compile all programs correctly (problems with names of subroutines). Note that Linux compiler g77 ver.0.5.23 or ver.2.90.23 (980102) already compiles DO loops correctly and is used by the authors (option -O is not recommended). Linux fort77 ver.1.14a also compiles DO loops correctly but has other problems. Linux compiler g77 ver.0.5.24 or ver.2.91.66 (981002) (and many other versions) does not write files to unit 6 correctly. The authors use compilers by Lahey under MS-DOS.
Perl scripts are used to control the compilation of the Fortran code, to run the programs according to the history files and sometimes to complete some system-dependent tasks.
Perl interpreter is usually a part of the Unix installation and is available for most other operating systems. Perl interpreter should be available at www.perl.org for most operating systems.
Plotting programs generate 2-D plots (e.g., synthetic seismograms) in PostScript. The figures may be printed on any PostScript printer, viewed on the screen, included into papers, etc. There are also several PostScript figures on the compact disk. To view the figures on the screen, it is not bad to have installed a PostScript viewer and to enable it in the HTML browser as a helper. The authors use GhostScript or GhostView.
PostScript files containing papers and some extensive data files are compressed using the GZIP program. The GZIPped files have extension .gz. Use command gzip -adN name.gz to decompress file name.gz. Program GZIP should be available at www.gzip.org for most operating systems.
Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML) is a powerful tool to display 3-D models, rays and other 3-D objects relevant to seismic modelling. In particular, we recommend VRML97 (Virtual Reality Modeling Language ISO/IEC 14772). Packages FORMS and MODEL are equipped with the programs to triangulate structural interfaces and velocity sections and display them together with rays and source and receiver points in 3-D by means of VRML. The compact disk contains examples of generated VRML files, see package DATA.
To see the VRML files, it is recommended to have installed a VRML97 browser. If you have no VRML97 browser, please, ask your system administrator to install one for you. Under Linux, the authors use browser vrmlview, eventhough it has several bugs. (For example, the ambient light makes all objects white, so it cannot be used. The ambient light is thus poorly simulated by sets of directional lights on this compact disc.)
Visualization software GOCAD (Geological Object Computer Aided Design) is a product of the GOCAD consortium. GOCAD is an integrated and geologically oriented CAD software that provides various tools to construct a wide range of earth models, for application in geology, geophysics and reservoir engineering. GOCAD has been developed for many operating systems. Packages FORMS and MODEL are equipped with the programs for conversion of points, lines, triangulated surfaces and 3-D grid of points into GOCAD. The compact disk contains examples of generated GOCAD files. For the discussion how to display 3-D seismic models through the VRML and GOCAD refer to Bucha (2001).