July, 19, 2005, New version of Poly3Dinv is released for Linux and Windows platforms

October 23, 2003, Poly3D available for Mac OS X
See the academic download page

June 11-14, 2003, Annual Rock Fracture Project Worshop, North Coast Inn, Arcata, California
See pictures and movies

May, 14, 2003, Esla, the embedded scripting language for Poly3D, Poly3Dinv and Dynel, is available at SourceForge.net under the GPL license.

May, 2003, Poly3D & Poly3Dinv are available for Linux RH7 and 8, Sun Solaris 8, and Windows.

May, 2003, AAPG Annual Convention: Techniques for Successful Development of Fractured Reservoirs, Salt Lake City, UT
3-D geomechanical modeling technique for constraint of subseismic fault simulation in reservoirs
Laurent Maerten, Paul Gillespie (Norsk Hydro, Norway) and Jean-Marc Daniel (IFP, France)

April, 2003, Poly3Dinv update
Update of Poly3Dinv, which now incorporate:
1) a correction for the tilting of radar inages due to orbital uncertainties (find the best fit for the InSAR radar image)
2) a fast Non-Negativity/Positivity constraint solver (no need to use Matlab anymore)
3) a scripting language for repetitive tasks (the "Esla" language)
4) the possibility to export displacement/strain/stress at observation points from a forward model using the computed displacement discontinuities, into a Gocad VSet file.

April, 2003, EGS - AGU - EUG Joint Assembly: Active faulting and continental deformation (SM13.01), Nice, France
A New Method for Slip Inversion for Faults with Complex Geometry
Frantz Maerten, Laurent Maerten, Phil Resor, Jordan Muller, David Pollard

February, 2003, Poly3Dfric, a C++ program based on Poly3D with friction, is in beta testing.

December 18, 2002, USGS: Earthquake Hazards Team Seminar Series, Menlo Park, CA
Demonstration of a New Computational and Analysis Tool for Modeling the Mechanical Behavior of Geometrically Complex Fault Systems
David Pollard, Frantz Maerten, and Phil Resor
See the Video
See the PowerPoint presentation

December, 2002, American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA
Slip inversion on complex fault surfaces using angular elastic dislocations
Maerten, F., Maerten, L., Resor, P.

December, 2002, Poly3Dinv, a C++ program for slip inversion on complex fault surfaces using angular elastic dislocations, is distributed. See the left menu "Poly3Dinv" for more informations .

November, 2002, Geological Society of America, Denvers, CO
Forward 3D Modeling of Complex Fault Systems Using an Elastic Boundary Element Method
Pollard, D., Maerten F., Maerten L., Resor P., Fiore P.

November, 2002, Geological Society of America, Denvers, CO
New Numerical Tool for Inverse and Forward Modeling of Complex Geological Structures: Application to the Analysis of a Sandbox Experiment
Maerten, L., Maerten, F.