A major part of the work involved in the development of the CFM, which consists of > 140 faults, is the technical
challenge of digitally assembling the various data and interpretations. Here is a list of software tools, commercial and free, which were found to be most useful for this task:
- gocad (Earth Decision):
main modeling engine, integration, interpolation, visualization
- imagine (Erdas):
geocorrection of images and vector drawings, coordinate
system projection
- proj (G. Evenden):
command line (batch) coordinate system projection, datum
conversion (nad2nad)
- pstoedit (W. Glunz): command
line conversion of postscript to many formats, in particular
to dxf for data exchange
Other SCEC groups developed parsers and import filters for
the tsurf file format.
Thorsten Becker
provided an awk script to convert the .ts format faults into COFF
format which can be viewed with the freely available geomview software. Download the tar archive with the script.
Brendan Meade
provided a matlab script to convert the .ts format faults into matlab format: ReadAndSaveCfm.m. The script should be able to read the latest CFM .ts files.
Here is a completely converted, earlier version (CFM 1.2) of CFM as a .mat file: Cfm1.2Pre_V7.mat.
Software to Visualize the Fault Model
- $$$ : Gocad www.earthdecision.com
- free: 4dvista www.mve.com
- free: LA3D and VDO: LA3D and SCEC VDO ; contact Sue Perry
- free: off format viewers after translation with T. Beckers scripts:
