Seer3D

Create Informative and Impressive 3D Images for your Groundwater Flow and Transport Models!

Introduction

The software package 3D Master (GE) provides for three-dimensional visualization and animation of data from groundwater flow and transport models. The current version of GE uses any native MODFLOW 88/96/2000 input files or models created by PMWIN. As GE interfaces with the model input and output files directly, no third party software is necessary for the visualization. You can use GE with your favorite MODFLOW-GUI's, including Argus ONE, Groundwater Modeling System (GMS), Groundwater Vistas, Processing MODFLOW, and others. GE will work with your models as long as your GUI saves your models using the original format of MODFLOW and creates a discretization file documented in the U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 00-92 for MODFLOW-2000.

The 3D Master supports (but does not require) the following models:

• Processing MODFLOW version 5 and higher
• MODFLOW 88/96/2000 (public domain)
• MODPATH (public domain)
• MT3DMS (public domain)
• PHT3D (public domain, in preparation)
• RT3D (public domain)
• PMPATH for Windows (public domain)

Design concept

GE is fully object-oriented; that is, the hydrogeologic structure and model data are represented by individual visualization objects, and arbitrary numbers of visualization objects can be added in any order to the display. GE does not assume any size limitation of groundwater models and their result files. A visualization object is an object such as isosurface or velocity vectors which are to be displayed on the screen. The available visualization objects are briefly described below.