1. Cosmo™ Player installation
Download installation file from site:
Nothing special for installation beside a question about
“unsupported software”.
That question MUST be answered ‘YES’
and Internet Explorer MUST be ticked on the next dialog.

2. options in preferences
Close Cosmo
A plot of rutile
clicking on an atom
with the seek function
magnifies the image
and makes that atom
the centre of rotation
if an ugly message
appears upon closing
Cosmo, play with
options in preferences
current
viewpoint
zoom
rotate
pan
seek
preferences
pick viewpoint

3. To get a full screen drawing
(1) Click view
and then “Full screen”
on the pull-down menu
(2) Clicking on the triangle
will get the tool band to disappear

4. Getting out of the full-screen mode
To see the regular menus at the top,
bring the cursor to about here
Full screen mode gives
high resolution on screen copies
To see again the tool band
Click on the little triangle

5. (1) Hold down <ALT> while depressing <PRINT SCREEN>
To save a plot screen
to e.g. PowerPoint
(1) Hold down <ALT>
while depressing
<PRINT SCREEN>
(2) In PowerPoint, hold
down <CTRL> while
depressing “V”.
To edit the plot
e.g. add lettering,
do the above,
but in MS PAINT.
The plot can then
be saved in a variety
of formats

6. the plot is being displayed. Failing that, the file will
To capture a VRML file
for later 3D viewing,
rename this file while
the plot is being displayed.
Failing that, the file will
be deleted upon closing
the plot window.

7. If Internet Explorer questions the wisdom of opening
VRML plot files from your own hard disk, click on
“Tools”, then “Internet options”, “Advanced”,
tick the checkbox as shown below
and depress “Apply”.

8. END of CosmoPlayer tutorial