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excerpt: "3D Terrain, written by Ian Thompson and Rich Mellor, is a well thought out, addictive program, that takes data from Abacus and presents it in a 3 Dimensional form ED Note: Unlike some utility programs that generate 3D bar graphs or pie charts, this program produces a topigraphical 3 dimensional landscape presentation of the data)..…"
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# 3D Terrain

3D Terrain, written by Ian Thompson and Rich Mellor, is a well thought out, addictive program, that takes data from Abacus and presents it in a 3 Dimensional form ED Note: Unlike some utility programs that generate 3D bar graphs or pie charts, this program produces a topigraphical 3 dimensional landscape presentation of the data).. The results can be sent to a printer, using the GPRINT_PRT file copied from Easel. The program, designed primarily to provide a 3D view of topography, is quite easy to use. Numeric data is first entered into Abacus and then exported to a file for Easel. This file is then imported into 3D Terrain where you are given a graphical representation of the spreadsheet data.