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Archive-name: graphics/resources-list/part1
Last-modified: 1993/06/09
Computer Graphics Resource Listing : WEEKLY POSTING [ PART 1/3 ]
===================================================
Last Change : 9 June 1993
Many FAQs, including this Listing, are available on the archive site
rtfm.mit.edu [18.70.0.224] in the directory pub/usenet/news.answers.
The name under which a FAQ is archived appears in the Archive-name line
at the top of the article.
This FAQ is archived as graphics/resources-list/part[1-3]
There's a mail server on that machine. You send a e-mail message to
mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu containing the keyword "help" (without
quotes!) in the message body.
You can see in many other places for this Listing. See the item:
0. Places to find the Resource Listing
for more information.
Items Changed:
--------------
I PLAN ON CHANGING HEADERS SOON, SO BE CAREFUL! ONLY THE "Resource Listing"
keys are sure to remain in the Subject: line!
3. Computer graphics FTP site list, by Eric Haines
4. Mail servers and graphics-oriented BBSes
5. Ray-tracing/graphics-related mailing lists.
6. 3D graphics editors
a. Public domain, free and shareware systems
9. Plotting packages
10. Image analysis software - Image processing and display
[ Perhaps I should change this subject to paint programs in general?? ]
16. Image annotation software
17. Scientific visualization stuff
[ I'm thinking of making this post bi-weekly. What do you think??? ]
--------------
Lines which got changed, have the `#' character in front of them.
Added lines are prepended with a `+'
Removed lines are just removed. Use 'diff' to locate these changes.
========================================================================
This text is (C)Copyright 1992, 1993 of Nikolaos C. Fotis. You can copy
freely this file, provided you keep this copyright notice intact.
Compiled by Nikolaos (Nick) C. Fotis, e-mail: nfotis@theseas.ntua.gr
Please contact me for updates,corrections, etc.
Disclaimer: I do not guarantee the accuracy of this document.
Use it at your own risk.
========================================================================
This is mainly a guide for computer graphics software.
I would suggest reading the Comp. Graphics FAQ for image analysis stuff.
It's entitled:
(date) comp.graphics Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
John T. Grieggs <grieggs@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov> is the poster of the
official comp.graphics FAQ
I have included my comments within braces '[' and ']'.
Nikolaos Fotis
========================================================================
Contents of the Resource Listing
================================
PART1:
------
0. Places to find the Resource Listing
1. ARCHIE
2. Notes
3. Computer graphics FTP site list, by Eric Haines
4. Mail servers and graphics-oriented BBSes
5. Ray-tracing/graphics-related mailing lists.
6. 3D graphics editors
a. Public domain, free and shareware systems
b. Commercial systems
7. Scene description languages
8. Solids description formats
PART2:
------
9. Plotting packages
10. Image analysis software - Image processing and display
PART3:
------
11. Scene generators/geographical data/Maps/Data files
12. 3D scanners - Digitized 3D Data.
13. Background imagery/textures/datafiles
14. Introduction to rendering algorithms
a. Ray tracing
b. Z-buffer (depth-buffer)
c. Others
15. Where can I find the geometric data for the:
a. Teapot ?
b. Space Shuttle ?
16. Image annotation software
17. Scientific visualization stuff
18. Molecular visualization stuff
19. GIS (Geographical Information Systems software)
Future additions:
[Please send me updates/info!]
========================================================================
0. Places to find the Resource Listing
======================================
This file is crossposted to comp.graphics, comp.answers and news.answers,
so if you can't locate it in comp.graphics, you're advised to search in
comp.answers or news.answers
(The latter groups usually are archived in your site. Contact your sysadmin
for more info).
These 3 articles are posted to comp.graphics 3-4 times a month and are kept in
many places (see below)
--
The inria-graphlib mail server mirrors this posting (see under the
Subject 4: Mail servers )
--
The Resource Listing is accesible through WAIS in the machine
enuxva.eas.asu.edu (port 8000) under the name graphics-resources-list.
It's got a digest-type line before every numbered item for purposes of
indexing.
--
Another place that monitors the Listing is the MaasInfo files.
For more info contact Robert E. Maas <rem@btr.com>
--
Yet another place to search for FAQs in general is the SWITCH
(Swiss Academic and Research Network) system in Switzerland:
interactive:
telnet nic.switch.ch [130.59.1.40], login as "info". Move to the
info_service/Usenet/periodic-postings directory. Search in the
00index file by typing "/" and the word to look for.
You may then just read the FAQ in the "faqs" directory, or decide
to fetch it by one of the following methods.
ftp:
login to nic.switch.ch [130.59.1.40] as user anonymous and
enter your internet-style address after being prompted for a
password.
cd info_service/Usenet/periodic-postings
mail:
send e-mail to
RFC-822:
archive-server@nic.switch.ch
X.400:
/S=archive-server/OU=nic/O=switch/PRMD=switch/ADMD=arcom/C=ch/
Enter 'help' in the bodypart to receive instructions. No information
is required in the subject header line.
1. ARCHIE
=========
The Archie is a service system to locate FTP places for
requested files. It's appreciated that you will use Archie
before asking help in the newsgroups.
Archie servers:
archie.au or 139.130.4.6 (Aussie/NZ)
archie.funet.fi or 128.214.6.100 (Finland/Eur.)
archie.th-darmstadt.de or 130.83.128.111 (GER.)
cs.huji.ac.il or 132.65.6.5 (Israel)
archie.kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp or 130.54.20.1 (JAPAN)
archie.sogang.ac.kr or 163.239.1.11 (Korea)
archie.ncu.edu.tw or telnet 140.115.19.24 (TWN)
archie.doc.ic.ac.uk or 146.169.3.7 (UK/Ireland)
archie.sura.net or 128.167.254.179 (USA [MD])
archie.unl.edu (password: archie1) (USA [NE])
archie.ans.net or 147.225.1.2 (USA [NY])
archie.rutgers.edu or 128.6.18.15 (USA [NJ])
archie.nz or 130.195.9.4 (New Zealand)
Connect to Archie server with telnet and type "archie" as username.
To get help type 'help'.
You can get 'xarchie' or 'archie', which are clients that call Archie
without the burden of a telnet session.
'Xarchie' is on the X11.R5 contrib tape, and 'archie' on comp.sources.misc,
vol. 27.
To get information on how to use Archie via e-mail, send mail with
subject "help" to "archie" account at any of above sites.
(Note to Janet/PSS users -- the United Kingdom archie site is
accessible on the Janet host doc.ic.ac.uk [000005102000].
Connect to it and specify "archie" as the host name and "archie" as
the username.)
==========================================================================
2. Notes
========
(Excerpted from the FAQ article)
Please do *not* post or mail messages saying "I can't FTP, could
someone mail this to me?" There are a number of automated mail servers
that will send you things like this in response to a message.
There are a number of sites that archive the Usenet sources newsgroups
and make them available via an email query system. You send a message
to an automated server saying something like "send comp.sources.unix/fbm",
and a few hours or days later you get the file in the mail.
==========================================================================
3. Computer graphics FTP site list, by Eric Haines
==================================================
Computer graphics related FTP sites (and maintainers), 9/06/93
compiled by Eric Haines, erich@eye.com
and Nick Fotis, nfotis@theseas.ntua.gr
Ray-tracers:
------------
RayShade - a great ray tracer for workstations on up, also for PC, Mac & Amiga.
PoV - son and successor to DKB trace, written by Compuservers.
(For more questions call Drew Wells --
73767.1244@compuserve.com or Dave Buck -- david_buck@carleton.ca)
ART - ray tracer with a good range of surface types, part of VORT package.
DKBtrace - another good ray tracer, from all reports; PCs, Mac II,
Amiga, UNIX, VMS (last two with X11 previewer), etc.
RTrace - Portugese ray tracer, does bicubic patches, CSG, 3D text, etc. etc.
An MS-DOS version for use with DJGPP DOS extender (GO32) exists also,
as a Mac port.
VIVID2 - A shareware raytracer for PCs - binary only (286/287). Author:
Stephen Coy (coy@ssc-vax.boeing.com). The 386/387 (no source) version
is available to registered users (US$50) direct from the author.
RAY4 - Steve Hollasch's 4-dimensional ray tracer - renders hyperspheres,
hypertetrahedra, hyperplanes, and hyperparallelepipeds (there's
a separate real-time wireframe viewer written in GL called WIRE4 ) .
MTV,QRT,DBW - yet more ray tracers, some with interesting features.
Distributed/Parallel Raytracers:
--------------------------------
XDART - A distributed ray-tracer that runs under X11. There are server binaries
which work only on DECstations, SPARCs, HP Snakes (7x0 series) and NeXT.
The clients are distributed as binaries and C source.
Inetray - A network version of Rayshade 4.0. Needs Sun RPC 4.0 or newer.
Contact: Andreas Thurnherr (ant@ips.id.ethz.ch)
+RRLib - Another distributed version of Rayshade.
+ Contact: Wilfried Koch <bj030@aix370.rrz.uni-koeln.de>
prt, VM_pRAY - parallel ray tracers.
Volume renderers:
-----------------
VREND - Cornell's Volume Renderer, from Kartch/Devine/Caffey/Warren (FORTRAN).
Radiosity (and diffuse lighting) renderers:
-------------------------------------------
Radiance - a ray tracer w/radiosity effects, by Greg Ward. Excellent shading
models and physically based lighting simulation. Unix/X based, though
has been ported to the Amiga and the PC (386).
INDIA - An Indian radiosity package based on Radiance.
SGI_RAD - An interactive radiosity package that runs on SGI machines with a
Spaceball. It includes a house database.
Author: Guy Moreillon <moreillo@ligsg1.epfl.ch>
RAD - a simple public-domain radiosity package in C. The solution can be run
stand-alone on any Unix box, but the walk-through requires a SGI 4D.
Author: Bernard Kwok <g-kwok@cs.yorku.ca>
+NeXTrad - yet another (minimal) radiosity package, for the NeXT computers
(requires NeXTSTEP 3.0+)
Renderers which are not raytracers, and graphics libraries:
-----------------------------------------------------------
SIPP - Scan line z-buffer and Phong shading renderer.
Now uses the shadow buffer algorithm.
Tcl-SIPP - a Tcl command interface to the SIPP rendering
program. Tcl-SIPP is a set of Tcl commands used to programmed
SIPP without having to write and compile C code.
Commands are used to specify surfaces, objects,
scenes and rendering options.
It renders either in PPM format or in Utah Raster Toolkit RLE format
or to the photo widget in the Tk-based X11 applications.
VOGLE - graphics learning environment (device portable).
VOGL - an SGI GL-like library based on VOGLE.
REND386 - A *fast* polygon renderer for Intel 386s and up. Version 2 on up.
[ It's not photorealistic, but rather a real-time renderer]
XSHARP21 - Dr. Dobb's Journal PC renderer source code, with budget texture
mapping.
Modellers, wireframe viewers:
-----------------------------
VISION-3D - Mac modeler, can output Radiance & Rayshade files.
IRIT - A CSG solid modeler, with support for freeform surfaces.
X3D - A wireframe viewer for X11.
3DV - 3-D wireframe graphics toolkit, with C source, 3dv objects, other stuff
Look at PC archives like wuarchive or romulus.ulowell.edu.
PV3D - a shareware front end modeler for POVRAY, still in beta test.
French docs for now, price for registering 250 French Francs. Save disabled.
Some extra utilities, DXF files for the registered version.
Geometric viewers:
------------------
SALEM - A GL-based package from Dobkin et al. for exploring mathematical
structures.
GEOMVIEW - A GL-based package for looking and interactively manipulating
3D objects, from Geometry Center at Minnesota.
XYZ GeoBench -(eXperimental geometrY Zurich) is a workbench for geometric
computation for Macintosh computers.
WIRE4 - GL wireframe previewer for Steve Hollasch's RAY4 (see above)
Data Formats and Data Sets for Ray Tracing:
-------------------------------------------
SPD - a set of procedural databases for testing ray tracers.
NFF - simplistic file format used by SPD.
OFF - another file format.
P3D - a lispy file format.
TDDD - Imagine (3D modeler) format, has converters for RayShade, NFF, OFF, etc.
Also includes a nice postscript object displayer. Some GREAT models.
TTDDDLIB - converts to/from TDDD/TTDDD, OFF, NFF, Rayshade 4.0, Imagine,
and vort 3d objects. Also outputs Framemaker MIF files and isometric
views in Postscript. Registered users get a TeX PK font converter and
a superquadric surfaces generator.
Glenn Lewis <glewis@pcocd2.intel.com>
[Note : TTDDDLIB is also known as T3DLIB]
CHVRTD - Chapel Hill Volume Rendering Test Datasets, includes volume sets for
two heads, a brain, a knee, electron density maps for RNA and others.
Written Material on Rendering:
------------------------------
RT News - collections of articles on ray tracing.
RT bib - references to articles on ray tracing in "refer" format.
Rad bib - references to articles on radiosity (global illumination).
Speer RT bib - Rick Speer's cross-referenced RT bib, in postscript.
RT abstracts - collection by Tom Wilson of abstracts of many RT articles.
Paper bank project - various technical papers in electronic form. Contact
Juhana Kouhia <jk87377@cs.tut.fi>
Online Bibliography Project :
The ACM SIGGRAPH Online Bibliography Project is a database of
over 15,000 unique computer graphics and computational geometry
references in BibTeX format, available to the computer graphics
community as a research and educational resource.
The database is located at "siggraph.org". Users may download
the BibTeX files via FTP and peruse them offline, or telnet to
"siggraph.org" and log in as "biblio" and interactively search
the database for entries of interest, by keyword.
For the people without Internet access, there's also an e-mail
server. Send mail to
archive-server@siggraph.org
and in the subject or the body of the message include the message send
followed by the topic and subtopic you wish. A good place to start is
with the command
send index
which will give you an up-to-date list of available information.
Additions/corrections/suggestions may be directed to the admin,
"bibadmin@siggraph.org".
Image Manipulation Libraries:
-----------------------------
Utah Raster Toolkit - nice image manipulation tools.
PBMPLUS - a great package for image conversion and manipulation.
LIBTIFF - library for reading/writing TIFF images.
ImageMagick - X11 package for display and interactive manipulation
of images. Uses its own format (MIFF), and includes some converters.
xv - X-based image display, manipulation, and format converter.
xloadimage, xli - displays various formats on an X11 screen.
Khoros - a huge, excellent system for image processing, with a visual
programming interface and much much more. Uses X windows.
FBM - another set of image manipulation tools, somewhat old now.
Img - image manipulation, displays on X11 screen, a bit old now.
xflick - Plays .FLI animation under X11
XAnim - plays any resolution FLI along with GIF's(including GIF89a animation
extensions), DL's and Amiga IFF animations(3,5,J,l) and IFF
pictures(including HAM,EHB and color cycling)
SDSC - SDSC Image Tools package (San Diego Supercomputing Center)
for image manipulation and conversion
CLRpaint - A 24-bit paint program for SGI 24bit workstations and 8bit Indigos.
BIT - Another 24-bit paint program for SGI machines.
[ Described under Subject 16 : Image annotation software ]
Libraries with code for graphics:
---------------------------------
Graphics Gems I,II,III - code from the ever so useful books.
spline-patch.tar.Z - spline patch ray intersection routines by Sean Graves
kaleido - Computation and 3D Display of Uniform Polyhedra. Mirrored in
wuarchive. This package computes (and displays) the metrical
properties of 75 polyhedra. Author: Dr. Zvi Har'El,
e-mail: rl@gauss.technion.ac.il
(*) means site is an "official" distributor, so is most up to date.
NORTH AMERICA (please look for things on your own continent first...):
-------------
wuarchive.wustl.edu [128.252.135.4]: /graphics/graphics - get CONTENTS file
for a roadmap. /graphics/graphics/objects/TDDD - *the TTDDD objects
and converters*, /mirrors/unix-c/graphics - Rayshade ray tracer, MTV
ray tracer, Vort ray tracer, FBM, PBMPLUS, popi, Utah raster toolkit.
/mirrors/msdos/graphics - DKB ray tracer, FLI RayTracker demos.
/pub/rad.tar.Z - *SGI_RAD*, /graphics/graphics/radiosity - Radiance
and Indian radiosity package. /msdos/ddjmag/ddj9209.zip - version 21
of Xsharp, with fast texture mapping. There's lots more, including
bibs, Graphics Gems I & II code, OFF, RTN, Radiance, NFF, SIPP, spline
patch intersection routines, textbook errata, source code from Roy
Hall's book "Illumination and Color in Computer Generated Imagery", etc
graphics/graphics/packages/kaleido - *kaleido*
George Kyriazis <kyriazis@turing.cs.rpi.edu>
princeton.edu [128.112.128.1]: /pub/Graphics (note capital "G") - *Rayshade
4.0 ray tracer (and separate 387 executable)*, *color quantization
code*, *SPD*, *RT News*, *Wilson's RT abstracts*, "RT bib*, *Utah
Raster Toolkit*, newer FBM, *Graphics Gems I, II & III code*,
+ *RRLib*.
/pub/graphics directory - *SALEM* and other stuff.
Craig Kolb <cek@princeton.edu>
[replaces weedeater.math.yale.edu]
Because there's a trouble with princeton's incoming
area, you can upload Rayshade-specific stuff to
weedeater.math.yale.edu [128.36.23.17]
alfred.ccs.carleton.ca [134.117.1.1]: /pub/dkbtrace - *DKB ray tracer*,
/pub/pov-ray/POV-Ray1.0 - *PVRay Compuserve group ray tracer (or PoV)*.
David Buck <david_buck@carleton.ca>
avalon.chinalake.navy.mil [129.131.44.11]: 3D objects (multiple formats),
utilities, file format documents.
This site was created to be a 3D object "repository" for the net.
Francisco X DeJesus <dejesus@archimedes.chinalake.navy.mil>
omicron.cs.unc.edu [152.2.128.159]: pub/softlab/CHVRTD - Chapel Hill
Volume Rendering Test Datasets.
ftp.mv.com [192.80.84.1]: - Official DDJ FTP repository.
*XSHARP*
barkley.berkeley.edu [128.32.142.237] : tcl/extensions/tsipp3.0b.tar.Z -
*Tcl-SIPP*
Mark Diekhans <markd@grizzly.com or markd@NeoSoft.com>
acs.cps.msu.edu [35.8.56.90]: pub/sass - *X window fonts converter into
Rayshade 3.0 polygons*, Rayshade animation tool(s).
Ron Sass <sass@cps.msu.edu>
hobbes.lbl.gov [128.3.12.38]: *Radiance* ray trace/radiosity package.
Greg Ward <gjward@lbl.gov>
geom.umn.edu [128.101.25.31] : pub/geomview - *GEOMVIEW*
Contact (for GEOMVIEW): software@geom.umn.edu
ftp.arc.umn.edu [137.66.130.11] : pub/gvl.tar.Z - the latest version of Bob,
Icol and Raz. Source, a manual, man pages, and binaries for
IRIX 4.0.5 are included (Bob is a real time volume renderer)
pub/ contains also many volume datasets.
Ken Chin-Purcell <ken@ahpcrc.umn.edu>
ftp.kpc.com [144.52.120.9] : /pub/graphics/holl91 - Steve Hollasch's
Thesis, /pub/graphics/ray4 - *RAY4*, /pub/graphics/wire4 - *WIRE4*.
/pub/mirror/avalon - mirror of avalon's 3D objects repository.
Steve Hollasch <hollasch@kpc.com>
swedishchef.lerc.nasa.gov [139.88.54.33] : programs/hollasch-4d - RAY4,
SGI Explorer modules and Postscript manual, etc.
zamenhof.cs.rice.edu [128.42.1.75] : pub/graphics.formats - Various electronic
documents about many object and image formats.
Mark Hall <foo@cs.rice.edu>
will apparently no longer be maintaining it, see ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu.
rascal.ics.utexas.edu [128.83.144.1]: /misc/mac/inqueue - VISION-3D facet
based modeller, can output RayShade and Radiance files.
ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu [141.142.20.50] : misc/file.formats/graphics.formats -
contains various image- and object-format descriptions. Many SciVi
tools in various directories, e.g. SGI/Alpha-shape/Alvis-1.0.tar.Z -
3D alpha-shape visualizer (SGI machines only),
SGI/Polyview3.0/polyview.Z - interactive visualization and analysis of
3D geometrical structures.
Quincey Koziol <koziol@ncsa.uiuc.edu>
tucana.noao.edu [140.252.1.1] : /iraf - the IRAF astronomy package
ftp.ipl.rpi.edu [128.113.14.50]: sigma/erich - SPD images and Haines thesis
images. pub/images - various 24 and 8 bit image stills and sequences.
Kevin Martin <sigma@ipl.rpi.edu>
ftp.psc.edu [128.182.66.148]: pub/p3d - p3d_2_0.tar P3D lispy scene
language & renderers. Joel Welling <welling@seurat.psc.edu>
ftp.ee.lbl.gov [128.3.254.68]: *pbmplus.tar.Z*, RayShade data files.
Jef Poskanzer <jef@ace.ee.lbl.gov>
george.lbl.gov [128.3.196.93]: pub/ccs-lib/ccs.tar.Z - *CCS (Complex
Conversion System), a standard software interface for image processing*
hanauma.stanford.edu [36.51.0.16]: /pub/graphics/Comp.graphics - best of
comp.graphics (very extensive), ray-tracers - DBW, MTV, QRT, and more.
Joe Dellinger <joe@hanauma.stanford.edu>
ftp.uu.net [192.48.96.2]: /graphics - *IRIT*, RT News back issues (not
complete), NURBS models, other graphics related material.
/graphics/jpeg/jpegsrc.v?.tar.Z - Independent JPEG Group package for
reading and writing JPEG files.
freebie.engin.umich.edu [141.212.68.23]: *Utah Raster Toolkit*,
Spencer Thomas <thomas@eecs.umich.edu>
export.lcs.mit.edu [18.24.0.12] : /contrib - pbmplus, Image Magick, xloadimage,
xli, xv, Img, lots more. /pub/R5untarred/mit/demos/gpc - NCGA Graphics
Performance Characterization (GPC) Suite.
life.pawl.rpi.edu [128.113.10.2]: /pub/ray - *Kyriazis stochastic Ray Tracer*.
George Kyriazis <kyriazis@turing.cs.rpi.edu>
cs.utah.edu [128.110.4.21]: /pub - Utah raster toolkit, *NURBS databases*.
Jamie Painter <jamie@cs.utah.edu>
gatekeeper.dec.com [16.1.0.2]: /pub/DEC/off.tar.Z - *OFF models*,
Also GPC Benchmark files (planned, but not checked).
Randi Rost <rost@kpc.com>
hubcap.clemson.edu [130.127.8.1]: /pub/amiga/incoming/imagine - stuff for the
Amiga Imagine & Turbo Silver ray tracers. /pub/amiga/TTDDDLIB -
*TTDDDLIB* /pub/amiga/incoming/imagine/objects - MANY objects.
Glenn Lewis <glewis@pcocd2.intel.com>
+[ This site has closed down. Check for other places that mirrored it - nfotis
]
pprg.eece.unm.edu [129.24.24.10]: /pub/khoros - *Khoros image processing
package (huge, but great)*.
Danielle Argiro <danielle@bullwinkle.unm.edu>
expo.lcs.mit.edu [18.30.0.212]: contrib - *PBMPLUS portable bitmap package*,
*poskbitmaptars bitmap collection*, *Raveling Img*, xloadimage. Jef
Poskanzer <jef@well.sf.ca.us>
venera.isi.edu [128.9.0.32]: */pub/Img.tar.z and img.tar.z - some image
manipulation*, /pub/images - RGB separation photos.
Paul Raveling <raveling@venera.isi.edu>
ucsd.edu [128.54.16.1]: /graphics - utah rle toolkit, pbmplus, fbm,
databases, MTV, DBW and other ray tracers, world map, other stuff.
Not updated much recently.
castlab.engr.wisc.edu [128.104.52.10]: /pub/x3d.2.2.tar.Z - *X3D*
/pub/xdart.1.1.* - *XDART*
Mark Spychalla <spy@castlab.engr.wisc.edu>
sgi.com [192.48.153.1]: /graphics/tiff - TIFF 6.0 spec & *LIBTIFF* software
and pics. Also much SGI- and GL-related stuff (e.g. OpenGL manuals)
Sam Leffler <sam@sgi.com>
[supercedes okeeffe.berkeley.edu for the LIBTIFF stuff]
surya.waterloo.edu [129.97.129.72]: /graphics - FBM, ray tracers
ftp.sdsc.edu [132.249.20.22]: /sdscpub - *SDSC*
ftp.brl.mil [128.63.16.158]: /brl-cad - information on how to get the
BRL CAD package & ray tracer. /images - various test images.
A texture library has also begun here.
Lee A. Butler <butler@BRL.MIL>
cicero.cs.umass.edu [128.119.40.189]: /texture_temp - 512x512 grayscale
Brodatz textures,
from Julien Flack <julien@scs.leeds.ac.uk>.
karazm.math.uh.edu [129.7.7.6]: pub/Graphics/rtabs.shar.12.90.Z - *Wilson's
RT abstracts*, VM_pRAY.
J. Eric Townsend <jet@karazm.math.uh.edu or jet@nas.nasa.gov>
ftp.pitt.edu [130.49.253.1]: /users/qralston/images - 24 bit image archive
(small). James Ralston Crawford <qralston@gl.pitt.edu>
ftp.tc.cornell.edu [128.84.201.1]: /pub/vis - *VREND*
+ /pub/vis/Data.Explorer - IBM Data Explorer repository
sunee.waterloo.edu [129.97.50.50]: /pub/raytracers - vivid, *REND386*
[or sunee.uwaterloo.ca]
archive.umich.edu [141.211.164.153]: /msdos/graphics - PC graphics stuff.
/msdos/graphics/raytrace - VIVID2.
apple.apple.com [130.43.2.2?]: /pub/ArchiveVol2/prt.
research.att.com [192.20.225.2]: /netlib/graphics - *SPD package*, ~/polyhedra
-
*polyhedra databases*. (If you don't have FTP, use the netlib
automatic mail replier: UUCP - research!netlib, Internet -
netlib@ornl.gov. Send one line message "send index" for more info,
"send haines from graphics" to get the SPD)
siggraph.org [128.248.245.250]: SIGGRAPH archive site.
publications - *Online Bibliography Project*, Conference proceedings
in various electronic formats (papers, panels), SIGGRAPH Video Review
information and order forms.
Other stuff in various directories.
Automatic mailer is archive-server@siggraph.org ("send index").
ftp.cs.unc.edu [128.109.136.159]: pub/reaction_diffusion - Greg Turk's work on
reaction-diffusion textures, X windows code (SIGGRAPH '91)
avs.ncsc.org [128.109.178.23]: ~ftp/VolVis92 - Volume datasets from the
Boston Workshop on Volume Visualization '92. This site is also the
International AVS Center.
Terry Myerson <tvv@ncsc.org>
uvacs.cs.virginia.edu [128.143.8.100]: pub/suit/demo/{sparc,dec,etc} - SUIT
(Simple User Interface Toolkit). "finger suit@uvacs.cs.virginia.edu"
to get detailed instructions.
nexus.yorku.ca [130.63.9.66]: /pub/reports/Radiosity_code.tar.Z - *RAD*
/pub/reports/Radiosity_thesis.ps.Z - *RAD MSc. Thesis*
[This site will be changed to ftp.yorku.ca in the near future]
milton.u.washington.edu [128.95.136.1] - ~ftp/public/veos - VEOS Virtual
Reality and distributed applications prototyping environment
for Unix. Veos Software Support : veos-support@hitl.washington.edu
oldpublic/fly - FLY! 3D Visualization Software demo.
That package is built for "fly-throughs" from various datasets in
near real-time. There are binaries for many platforms.
Multiverse - Client-server Virtual Reality system.
Located under the public/virtual-worlds directory.
Also, much other Virtual Reality stuff.
zug.csmil.umich.edu [141.211.184.2]: X-Xpecs 3D files (an LCD glass shutter
for Amiga computers - great for VR stuff!)
sunsite.unc.edu [152.2.22.81]: /pub/academic/computer-science/virtual-reality -
Final copy of the sugrfx.acs.syr.edu archive that ceased to exist.
It contains Powerglove code, VR papers, 3D images and IRC research
material.
Jonathan Magid <jem@sunSITE.unc.edu>
archive.cis.ohio-state.edu [128.146.8.52]: pub/siggraph92 - Code for
Siggraph '92 Course 23 (Procedural Modeling and Rendering Techniques)
Dr. David S. Ebert <ebert@cis.ohio-state.edu>
lyapunov.ucsd.edu [132.239.86.10]: This machine is considered the
repository for preprints and programs for nonlinear dynamics,
signal processing, and related subjects (and fractals, of course!)
Matt Kennel <mbk@inls1.ucsd.edu>
cod.nosc.mil [128.49.16.5]: /pub/grid.{ps,tex,ascii} - a short survey of
methods to interpolate and contour bivariate data
ics.uci.edu [128.195.1.1]: /honig --- Various stereo-pair images,
movie.c - animates a movie on an X display (8-bit and mono) with
digital subtraction.
taurus.cs.nps.navy.mil [131.120.1.13]: pub/dabro/cyberware_demo.tar.Z - Human
head data
pioneer.unm.edu [129.24.9.217]: pub/texture_maps - Hans du Buf's grayscale
test textures (aerial swatches, Brodatz textures, synthetic swatches).
Space & planetary image repository. Provides access to >150 CD-ROMS
with data/images (3 on-line at a time).
pub/info/beginner-info - here you should start browsing.
Colby Kraybill <opus@pioneer.unm.edu>.
cs.brown.edu [128.148.33.66] : *SRGP/SPHIGS* . For more info on SRGP/SPHIGS:
mail -s 'software-distribution' graphtext@cs.brown.edu
pdb.pdb.bnl.gov [130.199.144.1] has data about various organic molecules,
bonds between the different atoms, etc.
Atomic coordinates (and a load of other stuff) are contained in the
"*.ent" files, but the actual atomic dimemsions seem to be missing.
You could convert these data to PoV, rayshade, etc.
biome.bio.ns.ca [142.2.20.2] : /pub/art - some Renoir paintings,
Escher's pictures, etc.
#ic16.ee.umanitoba.ca [130.179.8.95] : /specmark - sample set of images from
the
`Images from the Edge' CD-ROM (images of atomic landscapes, advanced
semiconductors, superconductors and experimental surface
chemistry among others). Contact ruskin@ee.umanitoba.ca
explorer.dgp.toronto.edu [128.100.1.129] : pub/sgi/clrpaint - *CLRpaint*
pub/sgi/clrview.* - CLRview, a tool that aids in visualization
of GIS datasets in may formats like DXF, DEM, Arc/Info, etc.
ames.arc.nasa.gov [128.102.18.3]: pub/SPACE/CDROM - images from Magellan
and Viking missions etc. Get pub/SPACE/Index first.
pub/SPACELINK has most of the SpaceLink service data (see below)
e-mail server available: send mail to archive-server@ames.arc.nasa.gov
(or ames!archive-server) with subject:"help"
or "send SPACE Index" (without the quotes!)
Peter Yee <yee@ames.arc.nasa.gov>
pubinfo.jpl.nasa.gov [128.149.6.2]: images, other data, etc. from JPL
missions. Modem access at (818)-354-1333 (no parity, 8 data bits, 1
stop bit).
newsdesk@jplpost.jpl.nasa.gov or phone (818)-354-7170
spacelink.msfc.nasa.gov [128.158.13.250] (passwd:guest) : space graphics
and GIF images from NASA's planetary probes and the Hubble Telescope.
Main function is support for teachers (you can telnet also to this
site). Dial up access: (205)-895-0028 (300/1200/2400/9600(V.32) baud,
8 bits, no parity, 1 stop bit).
stsci.edu [130.167.1.2] : Hubble Space Telescope stuff (images and other
data). Read the README first!
Pete Reppert <reppert@stsci.edu> or Chris O'Dea <odea@stsci.edu>
#charon.er.usgs.gov [128.128.40.24] : /pub/PROJ.4.1.3.tar.Z - library of map
projections
#cs.ubc.ca [137.82.8.5] : /ftp/pickup/spline - example images and data files
for a Dragon head and body, a human knee, and a human finger produced
with a local Hierarchical B-Spline modeler.
seq1.loc.gov [140.147.3.12] : /pub/vatican.exhibit - Library of Congress'
*HUGE* scanned images from Vatican Library's Renaissance Culture
Exhibit which was done from January 8, 1993 through April 30, 1993.
K.D. Ellis <kell@seq1.loc.gov>
#monte.svec.uh.edu [129.7.2.23] : /pub/bit - *BIT*
+ftp.cs.rose-hulman.edu [] : pub/CS_dept/NeXtrad.tar.Z - *NeXTrad*
#rtfm.mit.edu [18.70.0.224] : /pub/usenet/news.answers - the land of
FAQs. graphics and pictures directories of particular interest.
[Also available from mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu by sending a mail
message containing: help]
UUCP archive: avatar - RT News back issues. For details, write Kory Hamzeh
<kory@avatar.avatar.com>
EUROPE:
-------
nic.funet.fi [128.214.6.100]: *pub/sci/papers - *Paper bank project,
including Pete Shirley's entire thesis (with pics)*, *Wilson's RT
abstracts*, pub/misc/CIA_WorldMap - CIA world data bank,
comp.graphics.research archive, *India*, and much, much more.
Juhana Kouhia <jk87377@cs.tut.fi>
dasun2.epfl.ch [128.178.62.2]: Radiance. Good for European sites, but
doesn't carry the add-ons that are available for Radiance.
isy.liu.se [130.236.1.3]: pub/sipp/sipp-3.0.tar.Z - *SIPP* scan line z-buffer
and Phong shading renderer. Jonas Yngvesson <jonas-y@isy.liu.se>
irisa.fr [131.254.2.3]: */iPSC2/VM_pRAY ray tracer*, SPD, /NFF - many non-SPD
NFF format scenes, RayShade data files. Didier Badouel
<badouel@irisa.irisa.fr> [may have disappeared]
phoenix.oulu.fi [130.231.240.17]: *FLI RayTracker animation files (PC VGA) -
also big .FLIs (640*480)* *RayScene demos* [Americans: check wuarchive
first]. More animations to come. Jari Kahkonen
<hole@phoenix.oulu.fi>
jyu.fi [128.214.7.5]: /pub/graphics/ray-traces - many ray tracers, including
VM_pRAY, DBW, DKB, MTV, QRT, RayShade, some RT News, NFF files. Jari
Toivanen <toivanen@jyu.fi>
garbo.uwasa.fi [128.214.87.1]: Much PC stuff, etc., /pc/source/contour.f -
FORTRAN program to contour scattered data using linear triangle-based
interpolation
asterix.inescn.pt [192.35.246.17]: pub/RTrace - *RTrace* nffutils.tar.Z (NFF
utilities for RTrace), medical data (CAT, etc.) converters to NFF,
Autocad to NFF Autolisp code, AUTOCAD 11 to SCN (RTrace's language)
converter and other goodies. Antonio Costa (acc@asterix.inescn.pt)
sun4nl.nluug.nl [192.16.202.2]: /pub/graphics/raytrace - DBW.microray, MTV, etc
#unix.hensa.ac.uk [129.12.21.7] : misc/unix/ralcgm/ralcgm.tar.Z - CGM viewer
and
converter.
There's an e-mail server also - mail to archive@unix.hensa.ac.uk
with the message body "send misc/unix/ralcgm/ralcgm.tar.Z"
maeglin.mt.luth.se [130.240.0.25]: graphics/raytracing - prt, others, ~/Doc -
*Wilson's RT abstracts*, Vivid.
ftp.fu-berlin.de [130.20.225.2]: /pub/unix/graphics/rayshade4.0/inputs -
aq.tar.Z is RayShade aquarium [Americans: check princeton.edu first).
Heiko Schlichting <heiko@math.fu-berlin.de>
maggia.ethz.ch [129.132.17.1]: pub/inetray - *Inetray* and Sun RPC 4.0 code
Andreas Thurnherr <ant@ips.id.ethz.ch>
osgiliath.id.dth.dk [129.142.65.24]: /pub/amiga/graphics/Radiance - *Amiga
port of Radiance 2.0*. Per Bojsen <bojsen@ithil.id.dth.dk>
ftp.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de [134.106.1.9] : *PoV raytracer*
Mirrored in wuarchive, has many goods for PoV.
pub/dkbtrace/incoming/polyray - Polyray raytracer
pub/dkbtrace/incoming/pv3d* - *PV3D*
peipa.essex.ac.uk [155.245.115.161]: the Pilot European Image Processing
Archive; in a directory ipa/synth or something like that, there are
image synthesis packages.
Adrian Clarke <alien@essex.ac.uk>
ftp.uni-kl.de [131.246.9.95]: /pub/amiga/raytracing/imagine - mirror of
the hubcap Imagine files.
neptune.inf.ethz.ch [129.132.101.33]: XYZ - *XYZ GeoBench*
Peter Schorn <schorn@inf.ethz.ch>
iamsun.unibe.ch [130.92.64.10]: /Graphics/graphtal* - a L-system interpreter.
Christoph Streit <streit@iam.unibe.ch>
amiga.physik.unizh.ch [130.60.80.80]: /amiga/gfx - Graphics stuff
for the Amiga computer.
stesis.hq.eso.org [134.171.8.100]: on-line access to a huge astronomical
database. (login:starcat;no passwd)
DECnet:STESIS (It's the Space Telescope European Coordination Facility)
Benoit Pirenne <bpirenne@eso.org>, phone +49 89 320 06 433
MIDDLE EAST
-----------
gauss.technion.ac.il [132.68.112.60]: *kaleida*
AUSTRALIA:
----------
gondwana.ecr.mu.oz.au [128.250.70.62]: pub - *VORT(ART) ray tracer*, *VOGLE*,
Wilson's ray tracing abstracts, /pub/contrib/artscenes (ART scenes from
Italy), pub/images/haines - Haines thesis images, Graphics Gems code,
SPD, NFF & OFF databases, NFF and OFF previewers, plus some 8- and
24bit images and lots of other stuff. pub/rad.tar.Z - *SGI_RAD*
Bernie Kirby <bernie@ecr.mu.oz.au>
munnari.oz.au [128.250.1.21]: pub/graphics/vort.tar.Z - *VORT (ART) 2.1 CSG
and
algebraic surface ray tracer*, *VOGLE*, /pub - DBW, pbmplus. /graphics
- room.tar.Z (ART scenes from Italy).
David Hook <dgh@munnari.oz.au>
marsh.cs.curtin.edu.au [134.7.1.1]: pub/graphics/bibliography/Facial_Animation,
pub/graphics/bibliography/Morph, pub/graphics/bibliography/UI -
stuff about Facial animation, Morphing and User Interfaces.
pub/fascia - Fred Parke's fascia program.
Valerie Hall <val@lillee.cs.curtin.edu.au>
OCEANIA - ASIA:
---------------
ccu1.auckland.ac.nz [130.216.3.1]: ftp/mac/architec - *VISION-3D facet
based modeller, can output RayShade files*. Many other neat things
for Macs. Paul Bourke <pdbourke@ccu1.auckland.ac.nz>
[ For users outside NZ - go to wuarchive.wustl.edu, directory
/mirrors/architec ]
scslwide.sony.co.jp [133.138.199.1]: ftp2/SGI/Facial-Animation - Steve Franks
site for facial animation.
Steve Franks <stevef@csl.sony.co.jp OR stevef@cs.umr.edu>
4. Mail servers and graphics-oriented BBSes
===========================================
Please check first with the FTP places above, with archie's help.
Don't overuse mail servers.
There are some troubles with wrong return addresses. Many of these
mail servers have a command like
path a_valid_return_e-mail_address
to get a hint for sending back to you stuff.
DEC's FTPMAIL
-------------
Send a one-line message to ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com WITHOUT a Subject: field,
and having a line containing the word 'help'.
You should get back a message detailing the relevant procedures you
must follow in order to get the files you want.
Note that the "reply" or "answer" command in your mailer will not work
for this message or any other mail you receive from FTPMAIL. To send
requests to FTPMAIL, send an original mail message, not a reply.
Complaints should be sent to the ftpmail-request@uucp-gw-2.pa.dec.com
address rather than to postmaster, since DECWRL's postmaster is not
responsible for fixing ftpmail problems.
BITFTP
------
For BITNET sites ONLY, there's BITFTP@PUCC.
Send a one-line 'help' message to this address for more info.
RED
---
RED - Listserv Redirector is essentially a mail server.
The Server Sites that are available are:
Location EARN/BITNET Internet
-------------- ---------------- -------------------
In Turkey: TRICKLE@TREARN TRICKLE@EGE.EDU.TR
In Denmark: TRICKLE@DKTC11
In Italy: TRICKLE@IMIPOLI
In Belgium: TRICKLE@BANUFS11 TRICKLE@UFSIA.AC.BE
In Austria: TRICKLE@AWIWUW11
In Germany: TRICKLE@DS0RUS1I TRICKLE@RUSVM1.RUS.UNI-STUTTGART.DE
In Israel: TRICKLE@TAUNIVM TRICKLE@VM.TAU.AC.IL
In Netherlands: TRICKLE@HEARN TRICKLE@HEARN.NIC.SURFNET.NL
In France: TRICKLE@FRMOP11 TRICKLE@FRMOP11.CNUSC.FR
In Colombia: TRICKLE@UNALCOL TRICKLE@UNALCOL.UNAL.EDU.CO
In Taiwan: TRICKLE@TWNMOE10 TRICKLE@TWNMOE10.EDU.TW
You are urged to use the one that is closer to your location.
Send a message to one of these containing the body
/HELP
and you'll get more instructions.
Lightwave 3D mail based file-server
-----------------------------------
A mail based file server for 3D objects, 24bit JPEG images, GIF images
and image maps is now online for all those with Internet mail access.
The server is the official archive site for the Lightwave 3D mail-list
and contains many PD and Shareware graphics utilities for
several computer platforms including Amiga, Atari, IBM and Macintosh.
The server resides on a BBS called "The Graphics BBS". The BBS is
operational 24 hours a day 7 days a week at the phone number of +1
908/469-0049. It has upgraded its modem to a Hayes Ultra 144
V.32bis/V.42bis, which has speeds from 300bps up to 38,400bps.
If you would like to submit objects, scenes or images to the server,
please pack, uuencode and then mail the files to the address:
server@bobsbox.rent.com.
For information on obtaining files from the server send a mail message
to the address file-server@graphics.rent.com with the following in
the body of the message:
HELP
/DIR
And a help file describing how to use the server and a complete
directory listing will be sent to you via mail.
[ Now it includes the Cyberware head and shouders in TTDDD format! Check it
out, only if you can't use FTP! -- nfotis ]
INRIA-GRAPHLIB
--------------
Pierre Jancene and Sabine Coquillart launched the inria-graphlib mail
server a few months ago.
echo help | mail inria-graphlib@inria.fr
will give you a quick summary of what inria-graphlib contains and
how to browse among its files.
echo send contents | mail inria-graphlib@inria.fr
will return the extended summary.
As an other example :
echo send cgrl from Misc | mail inria-graphlib@inria.fr
will return the Computer Graphics Resource Listing mirrored from
comp.graphics.
BBSes
-----
There are many BBSes that store datafiles, etc.etc., but a guide to these
is beyond the scope of this Listing (and the resources of the author!)
If you can point to me Internet- or mail- accessible BBSes that carry
interesting stuff, send me info!
Studio Amiga is a 3D modelling and ray tracing specific BBS, (817) 467-3658.
24 hours, 105 Meg online.
--
From Jeff Walkup <pwappy@well.sf.ca.us>:
"The Castle" 415/355-2396 (14.4K/v.32bis/v.42/v.42bis/MNP)
(In Pacifica, dang close to San Francisco, California, USA)
The new-user password is: "TAO".
[J]oin base #2; The Castle G/FX, Anim, Video, 3D S.I.G., of which
I am the SIG-Op, "Lazerus".
--
Bob Lindabury operates a BBS (see above the entry for "The Graphics BBS")
--
'You Can Call Me Ray' ray tracing related BBS in Chicago suburbs (708-358-5611)
or (708-358-8721)
--
Digital Pixel (Sysop: Mark Ng <mcng@descartes.waterloo.edu>) is based at
Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Phone : (416) 298 1487
Storage space: 330 megs
Modem type: 14.4k baud,16.8k (Zyxel) , v32bis ,v32, mnp 5
Access Fee: none.. (free)
System supported : DOS, OS/2, Amiga, Mac.
Netmail: Currently no echo mail.
Topics: Raytracing, Fractals, Graphics programming, CAD, Any Comp.
Graphics related
--
From: David Tiberio <dtiberio@ic.sunysb.edu>
Amiga Graphics BBS (516) 473-6351 in Long Island, New York,
running 24 hours at 14.4k v.32bis, with 157 megs on line.
We also subscribe to 9 mailing lists, of which 5 originate
from our BBS, with 3 more to be added soon. These include:
Lightwave, Imagine, Real 3D (ray tracing)
Database files include:
Imagine 3D objects, 3D renderings, scalable fonts, music
modules, sound samples, demos, animations, utilities,
text databases, and pending Lightwave 3D objects.
--
The Graphics Alternative
The Graphics Alternative is in El Cerrito, CA., running 24 hours a
day at 14.4k HST/v.32bis, with 642MB online and a 1300+ user base.
TGA runs two nodes, node 1 (510) 524-2780 is for public access and
includes a free 90 day trial subscription. TGA is the West Coast
Host for PCGnet, The Profesional CAD and Graphics Network, supporting
nodes across the Continental U.S., Alaska, New Zealand, Australia,
France and the UK.
TGA's file database includes MS-DOS executables for POV, Vivid,
RTrace, Rayshade, Polyray, and others. TGA also has numerous
graphics utilities, viewers, and conversion utilities. Registered
Vivid users can also download the latest Vivid aeta code from a
special Vivid conference.
--
From: Scott Bethke <sbathkey@access.digex.com>
The Intersection BBS, 410-250-7149.
This BBS Is dedicated to supporting 3D Animators.The system is provided
FREE OF CHARGE, and is NOT Commercialized in ANYWAY.
Users are given FULL Access on the first call.
Features: Usenet NEWS & Internet Mail, Fidonet Echo's & Netmail,
200 Megs online, V.32bis/V.42bis Modem.
Platforms of interest: Amiga & The VideoToaster, Macintosh, Ms-Dos,
Unix Workstations (Sun, SGI, etc), Atari-ST.
--
From: Alfonso Hermida <afanh@robots.gsfc.nasa.gov>:
Pi Square BBS (301)725-9080 in Maryland. It supports raytracers such as POV
and VIVID. The BBS runs off a 486/33Mhz, 100Megs hard drive and CD ROM.
Now it runs on 1200-2400bps (this will change soon)
+ Home of POVCAD. There are 2 versions, one for DOS graphics and the other
+ one is for Windows. This modeler is a 3D wireframe based modeler.
+ The current version (for both) is 2.0a.
Topics: graphics programming, animation,raytracing,programming (general)
--
From: Lynn Falkow <ROXXIE@delphi.com>:
Vertech Design's GRAPHIC CONNECTION. (503) 591-8412 in Portland, Oregon.
V.32/V.42bis.
The BBS, aside from carrying typical BBS services like message bases
( all topic specific ) and files ( CAD and graphics related -- hundreds
of megabytes ), also offers material texture files that are full color,
seamlessly tiling, photo-realistic images. There are samples available
to first time callers. The BBS is a subscription system although callers
have 2 hours before they must subscribe, and there are several subscription
rates available. People interested in materials can subscribe to the
library in addition to a basic subscription rate, and can use their
purchased time to download whichever materials they wish.
==========================================================================
5. Ray-tracing/graphics-related mailing lists
=============================================
Imagine
-------
Modeling and animation system for the Amiga:
send subscription requests to Imagine-request@email.sp.paramax.com
send material to Imagine@email.sp.paramax.com
(Dave Wickard has substituted Steve Worley in the maintenance of
the mailing list) - PLEASE note that the unisys.com address is
NO longer valid!!!
Lightwave
---------
(for the Amiga. It's part of Newtek's Video Toaster):
send subscription requests to lightwave-request@bobsbox.rent.com
send material to lightwave@bobsbox.rent.com
(Bob Lindabury)
Toaster
-------
send subscription requests to listserv@karazm.math.uh.edu with a *body* of:
subscribe toaster-list
Real 3D
-------
Another modeling and animation system for the Amiga:
To subscribe, send a mail containing the body
subscribe real3d-l <Your full name>
to listserv@gu.uwa.edu.au
Rayshade
--------
send subscription requests to rayshade-request@cs.princeton.edu
send material to rayshade-users@cs.princeton.edu
(Craig Kolb)
Alladin 4D for the Amiga
----------
send subscription requests to subscribe@xamiga.linet.org
and in the body of the message write
#Alladin 4D username@domain
Radiance
--------
Greg Ward, the author, sends to registered (via e-mail) users digests of
his correspodence with them, notes about fixes, updates, etc.
His address is: gjward@lbl.gov
REND386
-------
send subscription requests to rend386-request@sunee.waterloo.edu
send material to rend386@sunee.waterloo.edu
PoV ray / DKB raytracers
------------------------
To subscribe, send a mail containing the body
subscribe dkb-l <Your full name>
to listserv@trearn.bitnet
send material to dkb-l@trearn.bitnet
Mailing List for Massively Parallel Rendering
---------------------------------------------
send subscription requests to mp-render-request@icase.edu
send material to mp-render@icase.edu
+IBM Data Explorer SciVi package
+-------------------------------
+ send material to data-exp@watson.ibm.com (??)
==========================================================================
6. 3D graphics editors
======================
a. Public domain, free and shareware systems
============================================
VISION-3D
---------
Mac-based program written by Paul D. Bourke (pdbourke@ccu1.aukland.ac.nz).
The program can be used to generate models directly in the RayShade
and Radiance file formats (polygons only).
It's shareware and listed on the FTP list.
BRL
---
A solid modeling system for most environments -- including SGI and X11.
It has CSG and NURBS, plus support for Non-Manifold Geometry
[Whatever it is].
You can get it *free* via FTP by signing and returning the relevant license,
found on ftp.brl.mil. Uses ray-tracing for engineering analyses.
Contact:
Ms. Carla Moyer
(410)-273-7794 tel.
(410)-272-6763 FAX
cad-dist@brl.mil E-mail
Snail mail:
BRL-CAD Distribution
SURVIAC Aberdeen Satellite Office 1003
Old Philadelphia Road,
Suite 103 Aberdeen
MD 21001 USA
IRIT
----
A constructive solid geometry (CSG) modeling program for PC and X11.
Includes freeform surface support. Free - see FTP list for where to
find it.
SurfModel
---------
A solid modeling program for PC written in Turbo Pascal 6.0 by
Ken Van Camp. Available from SIMTEL, pd1:<msdos.srfmodl> directory.
NOODLES
-------
From CMU, namely Fritz Printz and Levent Gursoz (elg@styx.edrc.cmu.edu).
It's based on Non Manifold Topology.
Ask them for more info, I don't know if they give it away.
XYZ2
----
XYZ2 is an interactive 3-D editor/builder written by Dale P. Stocker to
create objects for the SurfaceModel, Automove, and DKB raytracer packages.
XYZ2 is free and can be found, for example, in SIMTEL20 as
<MSDOS.SURFMODL>XYZ21.ZIP (DOS only??)
3DMOD
-----
It's an MSDOS program. Check at barnacle.erc.clarkson.edu [128.153.28.12],
/pub/msdos/graphics/3dmod.* . Undocumented file format :-(
3DMOD is (C) 1991 by Micah Silverman, 25 Pierrepoint Ave., Postdam,
New York 13676, tel. 315-265-7140
NORTHCAD
--------
Shareware, <MSDOS.CAD>NCAD3D42.ZIP in SIMTEL20. Undocumented file format :-(
Vertex
------
(Amiga)
Shareware, send $40 US (check or money order) to:
The Art Machine, 4189 Nickolas
Sterling Heights, MI 48310
USA
In addition to the now standard file formats, including Lightwave,
Imagine, Sculpt, Turbo Silver, GEO and Wavefront, this release offers
3D Professional and RayShade support. (Rayshade is supported only by
the primitive "triangle", but you can easily include this output in
your RayShade scripts)
The latest demo, version 1.62, is available on Fred Fish #727.
For more information, contact the author, Alex Deburie, at:
ad99s461@sycom.mi.org, Phone: (313) 939-2513
ICoons
------
(Amiga)
It's a spline based object modeller ("ICoons" = Interactive
COONS path editor) in amiga.physik.unizh.ch (gfx/3d/ICoons1.0.lzh).
It's free (under the GNU Licence) and requires FPU.
The program has a look&feel which is a cross between Journeyman and
Imagine, and it generates objects in TTDDD format.
It is possible to load Journeyman objects into ICoons, so the program
can be used to convert JMan objects to Imagine format.
Author: Helge E. Rasmussen <her@compel.dk>
PHONE + 45 36 72 33 00, FAX + 45 36 72 43 00
[ It's also on Fred Fish disk series n.775 - nfotis ]
ProtoCAD 3D
-----------
Ver 1.1 from Trius (shareware?)
It's at wsmr-simtel20.army.mil and oak.oakland.edu as PCAD3D.ZIP (for PCs)
It has this menu layout:
FILE File handling (Load, Save, Import, Xport...)
DRAW Draw 2D objects (Line, Circle, Box...)
3D Draw 3D objects (Mesh, Sphere, Block...)
EDIT Editing features (Copy, Move ...)
SURFACE Modify objects (Revolve, Xtrude, Sweep...)
IMAGE Image zooming features (Update, Window, Half...)
OPTION Global defaults (Grid, Toggles, Axis...)
PLOT Print drawing/picture (Go, Image...)
RENDER Shade objects (Frame, Lighting, Tune...)
LAYER Layer options (Select active layer, set Colors...)
Sculptura
---------
Runs under Windows 3.1, and outputs PoV files. A demo can be found
on wuarchive.wustl.edu in mirrors/win3/demo/demo3d.zip
Author: Michael Gibson <gibsonm@stein.u.washington.edu>
+POVCAD
+------
+ There are 2 versions, one for DOS graphics and the other
+ one is for Windows. This modeler is a 3D wireframe based modeler.
+ The current version (for both) is 2.0a.
+
+ The package is available in Pi Square BBS (see the BBS section for location)
+
+ Author: Alfonso Hermida <afanh@robots.gsfc.nasa.gov>:
b. Commercial systems
=====================
Alpha_1
-------
A spline-based modeling program written in University of Utah.
Features: splines up to trimmed NURBS; support for boolean operations;
sweeps, bending, warping, flattening etc.; groups of objects, and
transformations; extensible object types.
Applications include: NC machining, Animation utilities,
Dimensioning, FEM analysis, etc.
Rendering subsystem, with support for animations.
Support the following platforms: HP 300 and 800's (X11R4, HP-UX 6.5),
SGI 4D or PI machines (X11R4 and GL, IRIX 3.3.1), Sun SparcStation
(X11R4, SunOS 4.1.1).
Licensing and distribution is handled by EGS:
Glenn McMinn, President
Engineering Geometry Systems
275 East South Temple, Suite 305
Salt Lake City, UT 84111
(801) 575-6021
mcminn@cs.utah.edu
[ Educational pricing ]
The charge is $675 per platform. You may run the system on as many
different workstations of that type as you wish. For each platform
there is also a $250 licensing fee for Portable Standard Lisp (PSL)
which is bundled with the system. You need to obtain an additional
license from the University of Utah for PSL from the following address:
Professor Robert Kessler
Computer Science Department
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, Utah 84112
[ EGS can handle the licensing of PSL for U.S. institutions for a
300 $USD nominal fee -- nfotis ]
VERTIGO
-------
They have an Educational Institution Program. The package is used in
the industrial design, architectural, scientific visualization,
educational, broadcast, imaging and post production fields.
They'll [quoting from a letter sent to me -- nfotis ] "donate fully
configured Vertigo 3D Graphics Software worth over $29,000USD per
package to qualified educational institutions for licencing on any
number of Silicon Graphics Personal IRIS or POWER Series Workstations.
If you use an IRIS Indigo station, we will also licence our Vertigo
Revolution Software (worth $12,000USD).
If you are interested in participating in this program please send a
letter by mail or fax (604/684-2108) on your institution's letterhead
briefly outlining your potential uses for Vertigo together with the
following information: 1. UNIX version 2. Model and number of SGI
systems 3. Peripheral devices 4. Third Party Software.
Participants will be asked to contribute $750USD per institution to cover
costs of the manual, administration, and shipping.
We recommend that Vertigo users subscribe to our technical support
services. For an annual fee you will receive: technical assistance
on our support hotline, bug fixes, software upgrades and manual updates.
For educational institution we will waive the $750 administration fee
if support is purchased.
The annual support fee is $2,500 plus the following cost for additional
machines:
Number of machines: 2-20 20+
Additional cost per machine: $700 $600 "
[ There's also a 5-day training program - nfotis]
Contact:
Vertigo Technology INC
Suite 1010
1030 West Georgia St.
VANCOUVER, BC
CANADA, V6E 2Y3
Phone: 604/684-2113
Fax: 604/684-2108
[ Does anyone know of such offers from TDI, Alias, Softimage, Wavefront,
etc.??? this would be a VERY interesting part!! -- nfotis ]
PADL-2
------
[ Basically, it's a Solid Modeling Kernel in top of which you build your
application(s)]
Available by license from
Cornell Programmable Automation
Cornell University
106 Engineering and Theory Center
Ithaca, NY 14853
License fees are very low for educational institutions and gov't agencies.
Internal commercial licenses and re-dissemination licenses are available.
For an information packet, write to the above address, or send your
address to: marisa@cpa.tn.cornell.edu (Richard Marisa)
ACIS
----
From Spatial Technology. It's a Solid Modelling kernel callable from C.
Heard that many universities got free copies from the company.
The person to contact regarding ACIS in academic institutions is
Scott Owens, e-mail: sdo@spatial.com
And their address is:
Spatial Technology, Inc.
2425 55th St., Bldg. A
Boulder, CO 80301-5704
Phone: (303) 449-0649, Fax: (303) 449-0926
MOVIE-BYU / CQUEL.BYU
---------------------
Basically [in my understanding], this is a FEM pre- and post-proccessor
system. It's fairly old today, but it still serves some people in
Mech. Eng. Depts.
Now it's superseded from CQUEL.BYU (pronounced "sequel"). That's a
complete modelling, animation and visualization package. Runs in the usual
workstation environments (SUN, DEC, HP, SGI, IBM RS6000, and others)
You can get a demo version (30-days trial period) either by sending $20
USD in their address or a blank tape. It costs 1,500 for a full run-time
licence.
Contact:
Engineering Computer Graphics Lab
368 Clyde Building, Brigham Young Univ.
Provo, UT 84602
Phone: 801-378-2812
E-mail: cquel@byu.edu
twixt
-----
Soon to add stuff about it... If I get a reply to my FAX
VOXBLAST
--------
It's a volume renderer marketed by:
Vaytek Inc. (Fairfield, Iowa phone: 515-472-2227) , running on PCs
with 386+FPU at least. Call Vaytek for more info.
VoxelBox
--------
A 3D Volume renderer for Windows. Features include direct
ray-traced volume rendering, color and alpha mapping,
gradient lighting, animation, reflections and shadows.
Runs on a PC(386 or higher) with at least an 8 bit video card(SVGA is fine)
under Windows 3.x. It costs $495.
Contact:
Jaguar Software Inc.
573 Main St., Suite 9B
Winchester, MA 01890
(617) 729-3659
jwp@world.std.com (john w poduska)
==========================================================================
7. Scene description languages
==============================
NFF
---
Neutral file format , by Eric Haines. Very simple, there are some
procedural database generators in the SPD package, and many objects
floating in various FTP sites. There's also a previewer written in
HP Starbase from E.Haines. Also there's one written in VOGLE, so you can
use any of the devices VOGLE can output on.
(Check in sites carrying VOGLE, like gondwana.ecr.mu.oz.au)
OFF
---
Object file format, from DEC's Randy Rost (rost@kpc.com).
[ The object archive server seems to be mothballed. In a future version,
I'll remove the ref. to it -- nfotis ]
Available also through their mail server. To obtain help about using this
service, send a message with a "Subject:" line containing only the word
"help" and a null message body to: object-archive-server@decwrl.dec.com.
[For FTP places to get it, see in the relevant place]. There's an OFF
previewer for SGI 4D machines, called off-preview in
godzilla.cgl.rmit.oz.au . There are previewers for xview and sunview,
also on gondwana.
TDDD
----
It's a library of 3D objects with translators to/from OFF, NFF,
Rayshade, Imagine or vort objects.
Edited copy of the announcement follows (from Raytracing News, V4,#3):
New Library of 3D Objects Available via FTP, by Steve Worley
(worley@cup.portal.com)
I have assembled a set of over 150 3D objects in a binary format
called TDDD. These objects range from human figures to airplanes,
from semi-trucks to lampposts. These objects are all freely
distributable, and most have READMEs that describe them.
In order to convert these objects to a human-readable format, a file
with the specification of TDDD is included in the directory with the
objects. There is also a shareware system called TTDDDLIB (officially
on hubcap.clemson.edu) that will convert (ala PBM+) to/from various
object formats : Imagine TTDDD (extension of TDDD?), OFF, NFF,
Rayshade 4.0, or vort. Source included for Amiga/Unix as executables
for the Amiga. Also outputs Framemaker MIF files and isometric views
in Postscript.
P3D
---
From Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center. The P3D uses lisp with slight
extensions to store three-dimensional models. A simple lisp
interpreter is included with the P3D release, so there is no need to
have access to any vendor's lisp to run this software.
The mouse-driven user interfaces for Motif, Open Look, and Silicon
Graphics GL, and the DrawP3D subroutine library for generating P3D
without ever looking at the underlying Lisp.
The P3D software currently supports nine renderers. They are:
Painter - Painter's Algorithm, Dore, Silicon Graphics Inc. GL language,
Generic Phigs, Sun Phigs+, DEC Phigs+, Rayshade, ART ray tracer (from
VORT package) and Pixar RenderMan.
The code is available via anonymous FTP from the machines
ftp.psc.edu, directory pub/p3d, and nic.funet.fi, directory
pub/graphics/programs/p3d.
RenderMan
---------
Pixar's RenderMan is not free - call Pixar for details.
==========================================================================
8. Solids description formats
=============================
a. EEC's ESPRIT project 322 CAD*I (CAD Interfaces) has developed a
neutral file format for transfer of CAD data (curves, surfaces, and
solid models between CAD systems and from CAD to CAA (Computer Aided
Analysis) an CAM (Computer Aided Manufacturing)
b. IGES [v. 5.1 now] tries to define a standard to tranfer solid
models - Brep and CSG. The current standard number is ANSI Y14.26M-1987
For documentation, you might want to contact Nancy Flower at
NCGA Technical Services and Standards, 1-800-225-6242 ext. 325
and the cost is $100.
This standard is not available in electronic format.
c. PDES/STEP : This slowly emerging standard tries to encompass not only
the geometrical information, but also for things like FEM, etc.
The main bodies besides this standard are NIST and DARPA. You can get
more information about PDES by sending mail to nptserver@cme.nist.gov
and putting the line
send index
in the body (NOT the Subject:) area of the message.
The people at Rutherford Appleton Lab. are also working
on STEP tools: they have an EXPRESS compiler and an Exchange file parser,
both available in source form (and for free) for research purposes.
Soon they will also have an EXPRESS-based database system.
For the tools contact Mike Mead, Phone: +44 (0235) 44 6710 (FAX: x 5893),
e-mail: mm@inf.rl.ac.uk or {...!}mcsun!uknet!rlinf!mm or
mm%inf.rl.ac.uk@NSFnet-relay.ac.uk
==========================================================================
End of Part 1 of the Resource Listing
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Archive-name: graphics/resources-list/part2
Last-modified: 1993/06/09
Computer Graphics Resource Listing : WEEKLY POSTING [ PART 2/3 ]
===================================================
Last Change : 9 June 1993
9. Plotting packages
=====================
Gnuplot 3.2
-----------
It is one of the best 2- and 3-D plotting packages, with
online help.It's a command-line driven interactive function plotting utility
for UNIX, MSDOS, Amiga, Archimedes, and VMS platforms (at least!).
Freely distributed, it supports many terminals, plotters, and printers
and is easily extensible to include new devices.
It was posted to comp.sources.misc in version 3.0, plus 2 patches.
You can practically find it everywhere (use Archie to find a site near you!).
The comp.graphics.gnuplot newsgroup is devoted to discussion of Gnuplot.
Xvgr and Xmgr (ACE/gr)
-----------------------
Xmgr is an XY-plotting tool for UNIX workstations using
X or OpenWindows. There is an XView version called xvgr for
Suns. Collectively, these 2 tools are known as ACE/gr.
Compiling xmgr requires the Motif toolkit version 1.1
and X11R4 - xmgr will not compile under X11R3/Motif 1.0x.
Check at ftp.ccalmr.ogi.edu [129.95.72.34] in
/CCALMR/pub/acegr/xmgr-2.10.tar.Z (Motif version)
/CCALMR/pub/acegr/xvgr-2.09.tar.Z (XView version)
/CCALMR/pub/acegr/xvgr-2.10beta.tar.Z (XView version)
Comments, suggestions, bug reports to Paul J Turner
<pturner@amb4.ccalmr.ogi.edu>
Robot
-----
Release 0.45 : 2-D and limited 3-D. Based on XView 3, written
in C / Fortran (so you need a Fortran compiler or the f2c translator).
Mainly tested on Sun4, less on DECstations. Check at
ftp.astro.psu.edu (128.118.147.28), pub/astrod.
VG plotting library
-------------------
This is a library of Fortran callable routines at sunspot.ceee.nist.gov
[129.6.64.151]
Xgobi
-----
It's being developed at Bellcore, and its speciality are
multidimensional data sets analysis and exploration. You can call it
from the S language also, and it works as an X11 client using the Athena
widget set (or with an ASCII terminal). It's distributed free of charge
from STATLIB at CMU.
To get it via e-mail, send email to statlib@temper.stat.cmu.edu and
in the body area of the message, put the line
send xgobi from general
If you want to pick it via ftp, connect to lib.stat.cmu.edu. Log in as
"statlib" and use your e-mail address as your password. Then type
cd general
mget xgobi.*
Warning: It's about 2 MB sources + large Postscript manual. Read the
relevant README to decide whether you need it or not.
PGPLOT
------
Runs on VAX/VMS and supposedly on UNIX. It's a set of fortran routines freely
available (though copyrighted and requiring a nominal fee of $50 or so)
that includes contour plots and support for various devices, including ps.
Contact tjp@deimos.caltech.edu
GGRAPH
------
Host shorty.cs.wisc.edu [128.105.2.8] : /pub/ggraph.tar.Z
Unknown more details.
epiGRAPH
--------
For PCs. Call dvj@lab2.phys.lgu.spb.su (Vladimir J. Dmitriev) for details.
You can get the program demo or (and) play version, if sent 10 $ to
1251 Budapest posta fiok 60
Hungary
ph/fax 1753696 Budapest
ph 2017760
Multiplot XLN
-------------
For Amigas, shareware ($30 USD, #20 UK or $40 Aust.). Advanced 2D package
that has a big list of features. Contact:
Dr. Alan Baxter <agb16@mbuc.bio.cam.ac.uk>,
Cambridge University
Department of Pathology,
Tennis Court Road,
Cambridge CB2 1QP, UK
Athena Plotter Widget set
-------------------------
This version V6.0 is based on Gregory Bond's version V5-beta. Added
some stuff for scientific graphs, i.e. log axes, free scalable axes,
XY-lineplots and some more, and re-added plotter callbacks from V4, e.g.
to request the current pointer position, or to cut off a rectangle from the
plotting area for zooming-in. Version V6.0 has a log of bugs fixed and a
log of improvements against V6-beta. Additionally I did some other
changes/extensions, besides
- Origin and frame lines for axes.
- Subgrid lines on subtic positions.
- Line plots in different line types (lines, points, lines+points,
impulses, lines+impulses, steps, bars), line styles (solid, dotted,
dashed, dot-dashed) and marker types for data points.
- Legend at the right or left hand side of the plot.
- Optional drawing to a pixmap instead of a window.
- Layout callback for aligning axis positions when using
multiple plotters in one application.
Available at export.lcs.mit.edu, directory contrib/plotter
SciPlot
-------
SciPlot is a scientific 2D plotting and manipulation program.
For the NeXT (requires NeXTStep 3.0), and it's shareware.
Features:
ASCII import and export; EPS export; copy, cut, paste with data buffer;
free number of data points, data buffer, and document window;
selective open and save ; plotting in many styles; automatic legend;
subviews; linear and logarithmic axes; two different axes; text and graphic;
color support; zoom; normalizing and moving; axis conversions;
free hand data manipulations (cut, edit, move, etc.); data editor; sorting
of data; absolute,relative, and free defined error bars;
calculating with buffers (+, -, *, / ); background subtractions
(linear,shirley,tougaard, bezier); integration and relative integration;
fitting of one or more free defined functions; linear regression;
calculations (+, -, *, /, sin, cos, log, etc.); function generator;
spline interpolation; least square smooth and FFT smooth; differentiation;
FFT; ESCA calculations and database; .. and something more
You can find it on:
ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de [130.149.17.7] : /pub/NeXT/science/SciPlot3.1.tar.Z
Author:
Michael Wesemann
Scillerstr. 73,1000 Berlin 12, Germany
mike@fiasko.rz-berlin.mpg.de
PLPLOT
------
PLPLOT is a scientific plotting package for many systems, small (micro)
and large (super) alike. Despite its small size and quickness,
it has enough power to satisfy most users, including:
standard x-y plots, semilog plots, log-log plots, contour plots, 3D plots,
mesh plots, bar charts and pie charts. Multiple graphs (of the same or
different sizes) may be placed on a single page with multiple lines in each
graph. Different line styles, widths and colors are supported. A virtually
infinite number of distinct area fill patterns may be used. There are
almost 1000 characters in the extended character set. This includes four
different fonts, the Greek alphabet and a host of mathematical, musical, and
other symbols. The fonts can be scaled to any size for various effects.
Many different output device drivers are available (system dependent),
including a portable metafile format and renderer.
Freely available (but copyrighted) via anonymous FTP on
hagar.ph.utexas.edu, directory pub/plplot
At present (v. 4.13), PLPLOT is known to work on the following systems:
Unix: SunOS, A/IX, HP-UX, Unicos, DG/UX, Ultrix
Other platforms: VMS, Amiga/Exec, MS-DOS, OS/2, NeXT
Authors: Many. The main supporters are:
Maurice LeBrun <mjl@fusion.ph.utexas.edu>: PLPLOT kernel and the metafile,
xterm, xwindow, tektronix, and Amiga drivers.
Geoff Furnish <furnish@fusion.ph.utexas.edu>: MS-DOS and OS/2 drivers
Tony Richardson <amr@egr.duke.edu>: PLPLOT on the NeXT
GLE
---
GLE is a high quality graphics package for scientists. It runs on a
variety of platforms (PCs, VAXes, and Unix) with drivers for XWindows,
REGIS, TEK4010, PC graphics cards, VT100s, HP plotters, Postscript
printers, Epson-compatible printers and Laserjet/Paintjet printers. It
provides LaTEX quality fonts, as well as full support for Postscript
fonts. The graphing module provides full control over all features of
graphs. The graphics primitives include user-defined subroutines for
complex pictures and diagrams.
Accompanying utilities include Surface (for hidden line surface
plotting), Contour (for contour plots), Manip (for manipulation of
columnar data files), and Fitls (for fitting arbitrary equations to
data).
Available via anon. FTP at these places:
PC gle: SIMTEL, wuarchive.wustl.edu, and other mirrors, msdos/graphics/gle*.*
UNIX gle: zephyr.grace.cri.nz (131.203.1.5), pub/gle/unix
VMS gle: zephyr.grace.cri.nz (131.203.1.5), pub/gle/vms
Mailing list: GLEList. Send a message to
listserver@tbone.biol.scarolina.edu, with a message boyd containing
sub glelist "Your Name"
maintainer: Dean Pentcheff <dean2@tbone.biol.scarolina.edu>
+SM (formerly supermongo)
+------------------------
+ SM is an interactive plotting package for drawing graphs written
+ by Robert Lupton and Patricia Monger. It has some capability to handle image
+ data, but mostly works with vectors. The main features of the package are:
+ - one can generate a plot with a minimum number of simple commands,
+ - one can build and save plot subroutines to be invoked with a single
+ user-defined command,
+ - the program keeps a history of plot commands which can be edited and
+ defined as a plot subroutine, to be reused,
+ - one can define and perform mathematical operations on the data to be
+ plotted from within the program, or read it from an ASCII file.
+
+ SM runs on Unix and Unix-variant systems and VMS systems. The next release
+ (2.2.1, June 1993) will also run on DOS PCs (sorry, no MacOS yet).
+
+ SM has drivers for Sunview, X10, X11, SGI, various tek401x emulators, UIS,
+ LN03, Imagen impress, QMS quic, HP Laserjet, and Postscript laser printers
+ (also color and encapsulated postscript), raster devices, HPGL, REGIS
+ graphics, and several odd (and likely obsolete) graphics terminals.
+
+ Cost:
+ SM is available for $300 U.S., $360 Canadian to university departments. A
+ university-wide site license is $1500 U.S., $1800 Canadian. Prices for
+ commercial or government agencies are $500 U.S. for a department, $2500 U.S.
+ for an entire site.
+
+ SM is not for sale to groups who want to use it for weapons research
projects
+ for the military agencies of any country.
+
+ You only buy it once - the license entitles you to unlimited free upgrades.
+ The distribution includes the source, documentation (TeX files), and
+ permission to install the program on all the machines at your site.
+
+ Contact:
+ patricia monger
+ monger@mcmaster.ca
+PlotMTV
+-------
+ tanqueray.berkeley.edu : /pub/Plotmtv1.3.1.tar.Z (~1 MB)
+
+ Tested on IBM RS6000, SPARCs and HP s700.
+
+ Unkown more details.
==========================================================================
10. Image analysis software - Image processing and display
==========================================================
PC and Mac-based tools (multi-platform software)
======================
IMDISP
------
IMDISP Written at JPL and other NASA sites. Can do simple display,
enhancing, smoothing and so on. Works with the FITS and VICAR/PDS
data formats of NASA. Can read TIFF images, if you know their dimensions
[PC and Macs]
LabVIEW 2
---------
LabVIEW is used as a framework for image processing tools. It provides a
graphical programming environment using block diagram sketch is the
"program" with graphical elements representing the programming elements.
Hundreds of functions are already available and are connected using a
wiring tool to create the block diagram (program). Functions that the
block diagrams represent include digital signal processing and
filtering, numerical analysis, statistics, etc. The tool allows any
Virtual Instrument (VI, a software file that looks and acts like a real
laboratory instrument) to be used as a part of any other virtual
instrument.
National Instruments markets plug-in digital signal processing (DSP)
boards for Macintoshs and PC compatables that allow real-time
acquisition and analysis at a personal computer. New software tools for
DSP are allowing engineers to harness the power of this technology. The
tools range from low-level debugging software to high-level block
diagram development software. There are three levels of DSP programming
associated with the NB-DSP2300 board and LabVIEW:
Use of the NB-DSP2300 Analysis Library: FFTs, power spectra, filters
routines callable from THINK C and Macintosh Programers Workshop (MPW) C
that execute on the NB-DSP2300 board. There is an analysis Virtual
Interface Library of ready-to-use VIs optimized for the NB-DSP2300.
Use of the National Instruments Developers Toolkit that includes an
optimizing C compiler, an assembler and a linker for low-level
programming of the DSP hardware. This approach offers the highest level
of performance but is the must difficult in terms of ease of use.
Use of the National Instruments Interface Kit software package which has
utility functions for memory management data communications and
downloading code to the NB-DSP2300 board. (This is the easiest route for
the development of custom code.)
Ultimage Concept VI
-------------------
Concept VI by Graftek-France is a family of image processing Virtual
Instruments (VIs) that give LabVIEW 2 (described above) users high-end
tools for designing, integrating and monitoring imaging control systems.
A VI is a software file that looks and acts like a real laboratory
instrument. Typical applications for Concept VI include thermography,
surveillance, machine vision, production testing, biomedical imaging,
electronic microscopy and remote sensing.
Ultimage Concept VI addresses applications which require further
qualitative and quantitative analysis. It includes a complete set of
functions for image enhancement, histogram equalization, spatial and
frequency filtering, isolation of features, thresholding, mathematical
morphology analysis, density measurement, object counting, sizing and
characterization.
The program loads images with a minimum resolution of 64 by 64, a pixel
depth of 8, 16, or 32 bits, and one image plane. Standard input and
output formats include PICT, TIFF, SATIE, and AIPD. Other formats can
be imported.
Image enhancement features include lookup table transformations, spatial
linear and non-linear filters, frequency filtering, arithmetic and logic
operations, and geometric transformations, among others. Morphological
transformations include erosion, dilation, opening, closing, hole
removal, object separation, and extraction of skeletons, among others.
Quantitative analysis provides for objects' detection, measurement, and
morphological distribution. Measures include area, perimeter, center of
gravity, moment of inertia, orientation, length of relevant chords, and
shape factors and equivalence. Measures are saved in ASCII format. The
program also provides for macro scripting and integration of custom
modules.
A 3-D view command plots a perspective data graph where image intensity
is depicted as mountains or valleys in the plot. The histogram tool can
be plotted with either a linear or logarithmic scale. The twenty-eight
arithmetic and logical operations provide for: masking and averaging
sections of images, noise removal, making comparisons, etc. There are
13 spatial filters that alter pixel intensities based on local
intensity. These include high-pass filters for contrast and outlines.
The frequency data resulting from FFT analysis can be displayed as
either the (real , imaginary ) components or the (phase, magnitude)
data. The morphological transformations are useful for data sharpening
and defining objects or for removing artifacts.
The transformations include: thresholding, eroding, dilating and even
hole filling.
The program's quantitative analysis measurements include: area,
perimeter, center of mass, object counts, and angle between points.
GTFS, Inc. 2455 Bennett Valley Road #100C Santa Rosa, CA 95494
707-579-1733
IPLab Spectrum
--------------
IPLAB Spectrum supports image processing and analysis but lacks the
morphology and quantitative analysis features provided by
Graftek-FranceUs Ultimage Concept VI. Using scripting tools, the user
tells the system the operations to be performed. The problem is that far
too many basic operations require manual intervention. The tool
supports: FFTs, 16 arithmetic operations for pixel alteration, and a
movie command for cycling through windows.
Macintosh-based tools
=====================
NCSA Image, NCSA PalEdit and more
---------------------------------
NCSA provides a whole suite of public-domain visualization tools for the
Macintosh, primarily aimed at researchers wanting to visualize results
from numerical modelling calculations. These applications,
documentation, and source code are available for anonymous ftp from
ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu. Commercial versions of the NCSA programs have been
developed by Spyglass.
Spyglass, Inc. 701 Devonshire Drive Champaign, IL 61820 (217) 355-6000
fax: 217 355 8925
NIH IMAGE
---------
Available at alw.nih.gov (128.231.128.7) or (preferably)
zippy.nimh.nih.gov [128.231.98.32], directory:/pub/image.
It has painting and image manipulation tools, a macro language,
tools for measuring areas, distances and angles, and for counting
things. Using a frame grabber card, it can record sequences of
images to be played back as a movie. It can invoke user-defined
convolution matrix filters, such as Gaussian. It can import raw
data in tab-delimited ASCII, or as 1 or 2-byte quantities. It also
does histograms and even 3-D plots. It is limited to 8-bits/pixel,
though the 8 bits map into a color lookup table. It runs on any Mac
that has a 256-color screen and a FPU (or get the NonFPU version
from zippy.nimh.nih.gov)
PhotoMac
--------
Data Translation, Inc. 100 Locke Dr. Marlboro, MA 01752 508-481-3700
PhotoPress
----------
Blue Solutions 3039 Marigold Place Thousand Oaks, CA 91360 805-492-9973
PixelTools and TCL-Image
------------------------
"Complete family of PixelTools (hardware accelerator and applications
software) for scientific image processing and analysis. Video-rate
capture, display, processing, and analysis of high-resolution
monochromatic and color images. Includes C source code."
TCL-Image:
"Software package for scientific, quantitative image processing and
analysis. It provides a complete language for the capture, enhancement,
and extraction of quantitative information from gray-scale images.
TCL_Image has over 200 functions for image processing, and contains the
other elements needed in a full programming language for algorithm
development -- variables and control structures. It is easily
extensible through "script" (or indirect command) files. These script
files are simply text files that contain TCL-Image commands. They are
executed as normal commands and include the ability to pass parameters.
The direct capture of video images is supported via popular frame
grabber boards. TCL-Image comes with the I-View utility that provides
conversion between common image file types, such as PICT2 and TIFF."
Perceptics 725 Pellissippi Parkway Knoxville, TN 37933 615-966-9200
Satellite Image Workshop
------------------------
It comes with a number of satellite pictures (raw data) and does all
sorts of image enhancing on it. You'll need at least a Mac II with co-
processor; a 256 color display and a large harddisk. The program doesn't
run under system 7.x.ATE1 V1
In the documentation the contact address is given as: Liz Smith, Jet
Propulsion Laboratory, MS 300-323, 4800 Oak Grove Dr,.Pasadena, CA 91109
(818) 354-6980
Visualization Workbench
-----------------------
"An electronic imaging software system that performs interactive image
analysis and scientific 2D and 3D plotting."
Paragon Imagine 171 Lincoln St. Lowell, MA 01852 508-441-2112
Adobe Photoshop
---------------
The tool supports Rtrue colorS with 24-bit images or 256 levels of grey
scale. Once an image has been imported it can be Rre-touchedS with
various editing tools typical of those used in Macintosh-based RpaintS
applications. These include an eraser, pencil, brush and air brush.
Advanced RpasteS tools that control the interaction between a pasted
selection and the receiving site have also been incorporated. For
example, all red pixels in a selection can easily be preventing from
being pasted. Photoshop has transparencies ranging from 0 to 100%,
allowing you to create ghost overlays. RPhoto-editingS tools include
control of the brightness and contrast, color balancing, hue/saturation
modification and spectrum equalization. Images can be subjected to
various signal processing algorithms to smooth or sharpen the image,
blur edges, or locate edges. Image scaling is also supported.
For storage savings, the images can be compressed using standard
algorithms, including externally supplied compression such as JPEG,
availlable from Storm Technologies. The latest version of Adobe
Photoshop supports the import of numerous image formats including: EPSF,
EPSF, TIFF, PICT resource, Amiga IFF/ILBM, CompuServe GIF, MacPaint,
PIXAR, PixelPaint, Scitex CT, TGA and ThunderScan..
Adobe Systems, Inc. 1585 Charlestown Road PO Box 7900 Mountain View, CA
94039-7900 415-961-4400
ColorStudio and ImageStudio
---------------------------
ColorStudio is an image-editing and paint package from Letraset that has
more features than Adobe Photoshop but is decidedly more complex and
therefore more difficult to use. Several steps are often required to
accomplish that which can be done in a single step using Photoshop. The
application requires a great deal of available disk space as one can
easily end up with images in the 30 MB range. The program provides a
variety of powerful selection tools including the "auto selection tool"
which lets the user choose image areas on the basis of color, close
hues, color range and mask.
ImageStudio: Don't know...
Letraset USA 40 Eisenhower Drive Paramus, NJ 07653 201-845-6100
Dapple Systems
--------------
"High resolution image analysis software provides processing tools to
work with multiple images, enhance and edit, and measure a variety of
global or feature parameters, and interpret the data."
Dapple Systems, 355 W. Olive Ave, #100 Sunnyvale, CA 94086 408-733-3283
Digital Darkroom
----------------
The latest release of Digital Darkroom has five new selection and
editing tools for enhancing images. One such feature allows the user to
select part of an image simply by "painting" it. A new polyline
selection tool creates a selection tool for single pixel wide
selections. A brush lets the operator "paint" with a selected portion
of the image. Note that this is not a true color image enhancement tool.
This tool should be used when the user intends to operate in grey-scale
images only. It should be noted that Digital Darkroom is not as
powerful as either Adobe Photoshop or ColorStudio.
Silicon Beach Software 9770 Carroll Ctr. Rd., Suite J San Diego, CA
92126 619-695-6956
Dimple
------
It is compatible with system 6.05 and system 7.0 , requires Mac LC or
II series with 256 colours, with a recommended min of 6Mb of ram. It has
the capability of reading Erdas files. Functions include; image
enhancement, 3D and contour plots, image statistics, supervised and
unsupervised classification, PCA and other image transformations. There
is also a means (Image Operation Language or IOL) by which you can write
your own transformations. There is no image rectification, however
Dimple is compatable with MAPII. The latest version is 1.4 and it is in
the beta stage of testing. Dimple was initially developed as a teaching
tool and it is very good for this purpose."
"Dimple runs on a colour Macintosh. It is a product still in its
development phase.. i.e. it doesn't have all the inbuilt features of
other packages, but is coming along nicely. It has its own inbuilt
language for writing "programs" for processing an image, defining
convolution filters etc. Dimple is a full mac application with pull down
menus etc... It is unprotected software."
Process Software Solutions, PO Box 2110, Wollongong, New South Wales,
Australia. 2500. Phone 61 42 261757 Fax 61 42 264190.
Enhance
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Enhance has a RrulerS tool that supports measurements and additionally
provides angle data. The tool has over 80 mathematical filter
variations: "Laplacian, medium noise filter", etc. Files can be saved
as either TIFF, PICT, EPSF or text (however EPSF files can't be imported).
MicroFrontier 7650 Hickman Road Des Moines, IA 50322 515-270-8109
Image Analyst
-------------
An image processing product for users who need to extract quantitative
data from video images. Image Analyst lets users configure
sophisticated image processing and measurement routines without the
necessity of knowing a programming language. It is designed for such
tasks at computing number and size of cells in images projected by video
cameras attached to microscopes, or enhancing and measuring distances in
radiographs.
Image Analyst provides users with an array of field-proven video
analysis techniques that enable them to easily assemble a sequence of
instructions to enhance feature appearance; count objects; determine
density, shape, size, position, or movement; perform object feature
extraction; and conduct textural analysis automatically. Image Analyst
works with either a framegrabber board and any standard video camera, or
a disk-stored image.
Within minutes, without the need for programming, the Image Analyst user
can set up a process to identify and analyze any element of a image.
Measurements and statistics can be automatically or semi-automatically
generated from TIFF or PICT files or from captured video tape images.
Image Analyst recognizes items in images based on their size, shape and
position. The tool provides direct support for the Data Translation and
Scion frame grabbers. A menu command allows for image capture from a VCR
video camera or other NTSC or PAL devices.
There are 2 types of files, the image itself and the related Sequence
file that holds the processing, measurements and analysis that the user
defines. Automated sequences are set up in Regions Of Interest (ROI)
represented by movable, sizable boxes atop the image. Inside a ROI, the
program can find the distance between two edges, the area of a shape,
the thickness of a wall, etc. Image Analyst finds the center, edge and
other positions automatically. The application also provides tools so
that the user can work interactively to find the edge of object. It also
supports histograms and a color look-up table (CLUT) tool.
Automatix, Inc. 775 Middlesex Turnpike Billerica, MA 01821 508-667-7900
IPLab
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Signal Analytics Corp. 374 Maple Ave. E Vienna, VA 22180 703-281-3277
FAX 703-281-2509
"Menu-driven image processing software that supports 24-bit color or
pseudocolor/grayscale image display and manipulation."
MAP II
------
Among the Mac GIS systems, MAP II distributed by John Wiley has
integrated image analysis.
IMAGE
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from Stanford : Try anonymous ftp from sumex-aim.stanford.edu
It has pd source for image v2, and ready to run code for a mac under
image v3.
Windows/DOS PC-based tools
==========================
CCD
---
Richard Berry's CCD imaging book for Willamon-Bell contains (optional?)
disks with image manipulating software. Source code is included.
ERDAS
-----
"ERDAS will do all of the things you want: rectification,
classification, transformations (canned & user-defined), overlays,
filters, contrast enhancement, etc. ... I was using it on my thesis &
then changed the topic a bit & that work became secondary."
ERDAS, Inc. 2801 Buford Highway Suite 300 Atlanta, GA 30329 404-248-9000
FAX 404-248-9400
RSVGA
-----
"I have been getting up to speed on a program called RSVGA available from
Eidetic Digital Image Ltd. in British Columbia. Its for IBM PC's or
clones, cheap (about $400) and does all the stuff Erdas does but is not
as fast or as powerful, though I have had only limited experience with
Erdas. I have used RSVGA with 6 of 7 Landsat bands and it is a good
starter program except for the obtuse manual"
IMAGINE-32
----------
It's a 32 bit package [I suppose for PCs] called "Imagine32"
or "Image32" The program does a modest amount of image processing --add,
subtract, multiply, divide, display, and plot an x or y cut across the image.
It can also display a number of images simultaneously.
The company is CompuScope, in Santa Barbara, CA.
PC Vista
--------
+[ NOTE: it's now available via anonymous FTP - machine flipper.berkeley.edu
+ (128.32.178.54), directory pub/pcvista. Warning: no user interface, very
+ minimal docs, etc. ]
It was announced in the 1989 August edition of PASP. It is known to
be available from Mike Richmond, whose email addresses have been
richmond@bllac.berkeley.edu
richmond@bkyast.berkeley.edu
+[ Latest address: richmond@spiff.Princeton.EDU ]
and his s-mail address is:
Michael Richmond,Astronomy Department, Campbell Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720
The latest version of PC-Vista, version 1.7, includes not only the source
code and help files, but also a complete set of executable programs and
a number of sample FITS images. If you do wish to use the source code,
you will need Microsoft C, version 5.0 or later; other compilers may work,
but will require substantial modifications.
To receive the documentation and nine double-density (360K) floppies
(or three quad-density 3-1/2 inch floppies (1.44M) with everything on them,
just send a request for PC-Vista, together with your name and a US-Mail
address, to
Office of Technology Licensing
2150 Shattuck Ave., Suite 510
Berkeley, Ca. 94704
Include a check (Traveller's Checks are fine) or purchase order for $150.00
in U.S. dollars, if your address is inside the continental U.S., or $165.00
otherwise, made out to Regents of the University of California
to cover duplication and mailing costs.
SOFTWARE TOOLS
--------------
It's a set of software "tools" put out by Canyon State
Systems and Software. They are not free, but rather cheap at about $30 I
heard. It will handle most all of the formats used by frame grabber
software.
MIRAGE
------
It's image processing software written by Jim Gunn at the
Astrophysics Dept at Princeton. It will run on a PC among other platforms.
It is a Forth based system - i.e. a Forth language with many image
processing displaying functions built in.
DATA TRANSLATION SOURCE BOOK
----------------------------
The Data Translation company in Massachusetts publishes a free book
containing vendors of data analysis hardware and software which is
compatible with Data Translation and other frame grabbers.
Surely you can find much more PC-related stuff in it.
MAXEN386
--------
A couple of Canadians have written a program named MAXEN386 which does
maximum entropy image deconvolution. Their company is named Digital
Signal Processing Software, or something like that, and the software is
mentioned in an article in Astronomy Magazine, either Jan or Feb 92
(an article on CCD's vs film).
JANDEL SCIENTIFIC (JAVA)
------------------------
Another software package (JAVA) is put out by Jandel Scientific.
Jandel Scientific, 65 Koch Road, Corte Madera, CA 94925, (415) 924-8640,
(800) 874-1888.
Microbrian
----------
Runs on an MS dos platform and uses a 32 bit graphics card
(Vista), or an about to be released version will support a number of
super VGA cards. Its a full blown remote sensed data processing
system.. It is menu driven (character based screen), but is does not use
a windowed user interface. Its is hardware protected with a dongle.
Mbrian = micro Barrier reef Image Anaysis System. It was developed by
CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific & Industrial Organization) and is
marketed/ supported by:
MPA Australia (51 Lusher Road, Croydon, Victoria
tel + 61 3 724 4488 fax +61 3 724 4455)
There are educational and commercial prices, but be prepared to set
aside $A10k for the first educational licence. Subsequent ones come
cheaper (they need to!) It has installed sites worldwide. It is widely
used at ANU.
MicroImage
----------
The remote sensing lab here at Dartmouth currently uses Terra-Mar's
MicroImage, on 486 PCs with some fancy display hardware.
Terra-Mar Resource Information Services, Inc.
1937 Landings Drive Mountain View, CA 94043 415-964-6900 FAX
415-964-5430
VIDEOSCAN
---------
[ Contact Club@spektr.msk.su (Koltovoy Nikolay Alexeevich) - they have
available software, frame grabbers, A/D converters, real-time image
processor ]
Unix-based tools
================
IRAF (Image Reduction and Analysis Facility)
--------------------------------------------
Developed in the National Optical Astronomy Observatory, Kitt Peak AZ
It is free, you can ftp it from tucana.noao.edu [140.252.1.1]
and complement it with STSDAS from stsci.edu [130.167.1.2].
Email to iraf@noao.edu for more details.
Apparently this is one of the _de facto_ standards in the astronomical
image community. They issue a newsletter also.
They seem to support very well their users. Works with VMS also last
I heard, and practically has its own shell on top of the VMS/Unix shells.
It's suggested that you get a copy of saoimage for display under X windows.
Very flexible/extendable -- tons (literally 3 linear feet) of
documentation for the general user, skilled user, and programmer.
ALV
---
A Sun-specific image toolkit. Version 2.0.6 posted to
comp.sources.sun on 11dec89. Also available via email to
alv-users-request@cs.bris.ac.uk.
AIPS
----
Astronomical Image Processing System. Contact: aipsmail@nrao.edu
(also see the UseNet Newsgroups alt.sci.astro.aips and sci.astro.fits)
Built by NRAO (National Radio Astronomy Observatory, HQ in Charlottesville,
VA, sites in NM, AZ, WV). Software distributed by 9-track, Exabyte, DAT,
or (non-anonymous) internet ftp. Documentation (PostScript mostly)
available via anonymous ftp to baboon.cv.nrao.edu (192.33.115.103),
directory pub/aips and pub/aips/TEXT/PUBL. Installation requires building
the system and thus a Fortran and C compiler.
This package can read and write FITS data (see sci.astro.fits), and is
primarily for reduction, analysis, and image enhancement of Radio Astronomy
data from radio telescopes, particularly the Very Large Array (VLA), a
synthesis instrument. It consists of almost 300 programs that do everything
from copying data to sophisticated deconvolution, e.g. via maximum entropy.
There is an X11-based Image tool (XAS) and a tek-compatible xterm-based
graphics tool built into AIPS. The XAS tool is modelled after the hardware
functionality of the International Imaging Systems model 70 display unit and
can do image arithmetic, etc.
The code is mostly Fortran 77 with some system C language modules, and is
available for Suns, IBM RS/6000, Dec/Ultrix, Convex, Cray (Unicos), and
Alliant with support planned for HP-9000/7xx, Solaris 2.1, and maybe SGI.
There is currently a project - "AIPS++" - underway to rewrite the
algorithmic functionality of AIPS in a modern setting, using C++ and an
object oriented approach. Whereas AIPS is proprietary code (licensed for
free to non-profit institutions) owner by NRAO and the NSF, AIPS++ will be
in the public domain at some level, as it is an international effort with
contributions from the US, Canada, England, the Netherlands, India, and
Australia to name a few.
LABOimage
---------
(version 4.0 is out for X11) It's written in C, and currently
runs on Sun 3/xxx, Sun 4/xxx (OS3.5, 4.0 and 4.0.3) under SunView.
The expert system for image segmentation is written in Allegro Common Lisp.
It was used on the following domains: computer science (image analysis),
medicine, biology, physics. It is distributed free of charge (source code).
Available via anonymous FTP at ftp.ads.com (128.229.30.16), in
pub/VISION-LIST-ARCHIVE/SHAREWARE/LaboImage_*
Contact: Prof. Thierry Pun, Computer Vision Group Computing Science Center,
U-Geneva 12, rue du Lac, CH-1207 Geneva SWITZERLAND
Phone : +41(22) 787 65 82; fax: +41(22) 735 39 05
E-mail: pun@cui.unige.ch or pun@cgeuge51.bitnet
Figaro
------
It was originally made for VMS, and can be obtained from
Keith Shortridge in Australia (ks@aaoepp.aao.gov.au)
and for Unix from Sam Southard at Caltech (sns@deimos.caltech.edu).
It's about 110Mbytes on a Sun.
KHOROS
------
Moved to the Scientific Visualization category below
Vista
-----
The "real thing" is available via anonymous ftp from lowell.edu. Email to
vista@lowell.edu for more details. Total size less than 20Mbytes.
DISIMP
------
(Device Independent Software for Image Processing) is a powerful
system providing both user friendliness and high functionality in
interactive times.
Feature Description
DISIMP incorporates a rich library of image processing utilities and
spatial data options. All functions can be easily accessed via the
DISIMP executive. This menu is modular in design and groups image
processes by their function. Such a logical structure means that
complicated processes are simply a progression through a series of
modules.
Processes include image rectification, classification (unsupervised and
supervised), intensity transformations, three dimensional display and
Principal Component Analysis. DISIMP also supports the more simple and
effective enhancement techniques of filtering, band subtraction and
ratioing.
Host Configuration Requirements
Running on UNIX workstations, DISIMP is capable of processing the more
computational intensive techniques in interactive processing times.
DISIMP is available in both Runtime and Programmer's environments. Using
the Programmers environment, utilities can be developed for specific
applications programs.
Graphics are governed by an icon-based Display Panel which allows quick
enhancments of a displayed image. Manipulations of Look Up Tables,
colour stretches, changes to histograms, zooming and panning can be
interactively driven through this control.
A range of geographic projections enables DISIMP to integrate data of
image, graphic and textual types. Images can be rectified by a number of
coordinate systems, providing the true geographic knowledge essential
for ground truthing. Overlays of grids, text and vector data can be
added to further enhance referenced imagery.
The system is a flexible package allowing users of various skill levels
to determine their own working environment, including the amount of help
required. DISIMP comes fully configured with no optional extras. The
purchase price includes all functionality required for professional
processing of remote sensed data.
For further information, please contact:
The Business Manager, CLOUGH Engineering Group Systems Division, 627
Chapel Street, South Yarra, Australia 3141. Telephone: +61 3 825 5555
Fax: +61 3 826 6463
Global Imaging Software
-----------------------
"We use Global Imaging Software to process AVHRR data, from the dish to
the final display. Select a chunk of five band data from a pass,
automatic navigation, calibrate it to Albedo and Temp, convert that to
byte, register it to predesigned window, all relatively automatically
and carefree.
It has no classification routines to speak of, but it isn't that
difficult to write your own with their programmer's module.
Very small operation: one designs, one codes, one sells. Been around for
a number of years, sold to Weather Service and Navy. Runs on HP9000
with HP-UX. Supports 24-bit display"
HIPS
----
(Human Information Processing Laboratory's Image Processing System)
Michael Landy co-wrote and sell a general-purpose package for image
processing which has been used for basically all the usual image
processing applications (robotics, medical, satellite, engineering, oil
exploration, etc.). It is called HIPS, and deals with sequences of
multiband images in the same way it deals with single images. It has
been growing since we first wrote it, both by additions from us as well
as a huge user-contributed library.
Feature description
HIPS is a set of image processing modules which together provide
a powerful suite of tools for those interested in research,
system development and teaching. It handles sequences of images
(movies) in precisely the same manner as single frames.
Programs and subroutines have been developed for simple image
transformations, filtering, convolution, Fourier and other transform
processing, edge detection and line drawing manipulation, digital
image compression and transmission methods, noise generation, and image
statistics computation. Over 150 such image transformation programs
have been developed. As a result, almost any image processing task
can be performed quickly and conveniently. Additionally, HIPS allows
users to easily integrate their own custom routines. New users
become effective using HIPS on their first day.
HIPS features images that are self-documenting. Each image stored in
the system contains a history of the transformations that have been
applied to that image. HIPS includes a small set of subroutines
which primarily deals with a standardized image sequence header, and
a large library of image transformation tools in the form of UNIX
``filters''. It comes complete with source code, on-line manual
pages, and on-line documentation.
Host Configuration Requirements
Originally developed at New York University, HIPS now represents
one of the most extensive and flexible vision and image processing
environments currently available. It runs under the UNIX operating
system. It is modular and flexible, provides automatic documentation
of its actions, and is almost entirely independent of special equipment.
HIPS is now in use on a variety of computers including Vax and
Microvax, Sun, Apollo, Masscomp, NCR Tower, Iris, IBM AT, etc.
For image display and input, drivers are supplied for the Grinnell and
Adage (Ikonas) image processors, and the Sun-2, Sun-3, Sun- 4, and
Sun-386i consoles. We also supply user-contributed drivers for a
number of other framestores and windowing packages (Sun gfx, Sun
console, Matrox VIP-1024, ITI IP-512, Lexidata, Macintosh II, X
windowing system, and Iris). The Hipsaddon package includes an
interface for the CRS-4000. It is a simple matter to interface HIPS
with other frame- stores, and we can put interested users in touch with
users who have interfaced HIPS with the Arlunya and Datacube Max-
Video. HIPS can be easily adapted for other image display devices
because 98% of HIPS is machine independent.
Availability
HIPS has proven itself a highly flexible system, both as an
interactive research tool, and for more production- oriented tasks. It
is both easy to use, and quickly adapted and extended to new uses. HIPS
is supplied on magnetic tape in UNIX tar format (either reel- to-reel or
Sun cartridge), and comes with source code, libraries, a library of
convolu- tion masks, and on-line documentation and manual pages.
Michael Landy SharpImage Software P.O. Box 373, Prince Street Station
New York, NY 10012-0007 Voice: (212) 998-7857 Fax: (212) 995-4011
msl@cns.nyu.edu
MIRA
----
[ Please DON'T confuse that with the Thalmanns animation system from
Montreal. These are altogether different beasts! - nfotis ]
MIRA stands for Microcomputer Image Reduction and Analysis. MIRA gives
workstation level performance on 386/486 DOS computers using SVGA cards in
256 color modes up to 1024x768. MIRA contains a very handsome/functional
GUI which is mouse and keystroke operated. MIRA reads/writes TIFF and FITS
formats, native formats of a number of CCD cameras, and uncompressed binary
images in byte, short integer, and 4-byte real pixel format in 1- or 2-
dimensions. The result of an image processing operation can be short integer
or real pixels, or the same as that of the input image. MIRA does the
operation using short or floating point arithmetic to maintain the precision
and accuracy of the pixel format. Over 100 functions are hand-coded in
assembly language for maximum speed on the Intel hardware. The entire
graphical interface is also written in assembly language to maximize
the speed of windowing operations. Windows for 2-d image and 1-d image/data
display and analysis have dedicated cursors which read position and value
value in real time as you move the mouse. There are also smooth, real time
contrast and brightness stretch and panning of a magnified portion of
the displayed image(s), all operated by the mouse. A wide selection of
grayscale, pseudocolor, and random palettes is provided, and other
palettes can be generated.
Supported functions include such niceties as the following:
o image & image: + - / * interpolation
o image & constant: + - / *
o unary operations: abs value, polynomial of pixel value, chs, 1/x, log,
byteswap, clip values at upper/lower limits, short->real or real->short.
o combine images by mean, median, mode, or sum of pixel values, with or
without autoscaling to mean, median, or mode of an image section.
o convolutions/filters: Laplacian, Sobel edge operator, directional gradient,
line, Gaussian, elliptical and rectangular equal weight filters, unsharp
masking, median filters, user defined filter kernel. Ellipse, rectangle,
line, gradient, Gaussian, and user defined filters can be rotated to
any specified angle.
o CCD data reduction: flat fielding, dark subtraction, column over/underscan
bias removal, remove bad pixels and column defects, normalize to
region target mean, median, or modal value.
o create subimage, mosaic m x n 1-d or 2-d images to get larger image,
collapse 2-d image into 1-d image.
o plot 1-d section or collapsed section of 2-d image, plot histogram of
region of an image.
o review/change image information/header data, rename keywords, plot
keyword values for a set of images.
o luminance/photometry: elliptical or circular aperture photometry,
brightness profile, isophotal photometry between set of upper & lower
luminances, area and luminance inside traced polygon. Interactive
background fitting and removal from part or all of image, fit elliptical
aperture shape to image isophotes.
o interactive with 2-d image: contrast/brightness, x- y- or diagonal plot
of pixel values, distance between two points, compute region stats,`
centroid, pan to x,y location or image center, zoom 1/16 to 10 times,
change cursor to rectangle crosshair, full image crosshair, or off, and
adjust cursor size on image. Select linear, log or gamma transfer function
or histogram equalization.
o interactive or specified image offset computation and re-sampling for
registration.
o interactive with 1-d image: zoom in x- y- or both in steps of 1/2 or
2 times current, re-center plot, or enlarge a framed area. 4 plot buffers
can be cycled through. Interactive data analysis: polynomial fitting,
point deletion, undelete, change value, point weighting, linear and
quadratic loess and binomial smoothing, revert to unit point weights
or original data buffer, substitute results into data buffer for pass
back to calling function. Dump data buffer (+ overlays and error bars)
to file or printer. Change to user specified coordinate system.
o Tricolor image combination and display, hardcopy halftone printout to
HP-PCL compatible printers (Laserjet, deskjet, etc.)
o Documentation is over 300 pages in custom vinyl binder.
Cost: 995 $USD/copy
Available from:
Axiom Research, Inc.
Box 44162
Tucson, AZ 85733
(602) 791-2864 phone/fax.
international marketing rep: Saguaro Scientific Corporation, Tucson, Arizona.
SPHINX
------
Satellite Image Processing under Unix/X11. Specializes in:
- Image Analysis & Processing (statistical and mathematical filtering
operations, such as Fourier transforms, convolution product or
principal component analyses)
- Satellite Spectra & Orbit Analysis (e.g., GOES, METEOSAT, NOAA, Spot etc.)
- Easy External Program Interfacing
- Quick Quality Presentation
A TEST VERSION OF SPHINX IS AVAILABLE AT loasil.citilille.fr
(134.206.50.4) anonymous (bin : cd SPHINX : get ALL_SPHINX.tar.Z)
Developers:
Laboratoire d'Optique Atmospherique (LOA) of the Universite de Lille, France
Support and Questions:
sphinx@loasil.citilille.fr
==========================================================================
End of Part 2 of the Resource Listing
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Last Change : 9 June 1993
11. Scene generators/geographical data/Maps/Data files
======================================================
DEMs (Digital Elevation Models)
-------------------------------
DEMs (Digital Elevation Models) as well as other cartographic data
[huge] is available from spectrum.xerox.com [192.70.225.78], /pub/map.
Contact:
Lee Moore -- Webster Research Center, Xerox Corp. --
Voice: +1 (716) 422 2496
Arpa, Internet: Moore.Wbst128@Xerox.Com
[ Check also on ncgia.ucsb.edu (128.111.254.105), /pub/dems -- nfotis ]
Many of these files are also available on CD-ROM selled by USGS:
"1:2,000,000 scale Digital Line Graph (DLG) Data". Contains datas
for all 50 states. Price is about $28, call to or visit in offices
in Menlo Park, in Reston, Virginia (800-USA-MAPS).
The Data User Services Division of the Bureau of the Census also has
data on CD-ROM (TSO standard format) that is derived from USGS
1:100,000 map data. Call (301) 763-4100 for more info or they have
a BBS at (301) 763-1568.
[ From Dr.Dobbs #198 March 1993: ]
"The U.S. Defense Mapping Agency, in cooperation with their counterpart
agencies in CANADA, the U.K., and Australia, have released the Digital Chart
of the World (DCW). This chart consists of over 1.5 gigabytes of reasonable
quality vector data distributed on four CD-ROMS. .... includes coastlines,
rivers, roads, railrays, airports,cities, towns, spot elevations, and depths,
and over 100,000 place names."
It is ISO9660 compatible and only $200.00 available from:
U.S. Geological Survey
P.O. Box 25286
Denver Federal Center
Denver, CO 80225
Digital Distribution Services
Energy, Mines, and Resources Canada
615 Booth Street
Ottawa, ON
K1A 0E9 Canada
Director General of Military Survey
(Survey 3)
Elmwood Avenue
Feltham, Middlesex
TW13 7AH United Kingdom
Director of Survey, Australian Army
Department of Defense
Campbell Park Offices (CP2-4-24)
Campbell ACT 2601 Australia
Fractal Landscape Generators
----------------------------
Public Domain:
Many people have written fractal landscape generators. for example
for the Mac some of these generators were written by
pdbourke@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz (Paul D. Bourke).
Many of the programs are available from the FTP sites and mail
archive servers. Check with Archie.
Commercial:
Vista Pro 3.0 for the Amiga from Virtual Reality Labs -- list price
is about $100. Their address is:
VRL
2341 Ganador court
San Luis Obispo,
CA 93401
Telephone or FAX (805) 545-8515
Scenery Animator 4 (also for the Amiga) is of the same caliber with
Vista Pro 3, plus animation support (VistaPro needs separate programs in
order to make animations).
Check with:
Natural Graphics
P.O. Box 1963
Raklin, CA 95677
Phone (916) 624-1436
Don't forget to ask about companion programs and data disks/tapes.
Both of these programs can read USGS DEMs, etc.
Vista Pro 3 has been ported to the PCs.
CIA World Map II
----------------
[ NOTE: this database is quite out of date, and not topologically structured.
If you need a standard for world cartographic data, wait for the
Digital Chart of the World. This 1:1M database has been produced from
the Defense Mapping Agency's ONCs and will be available, together with
searching and viewing software, on a number of CD-ROMs later this summer. ]
Check into HANAUMA.STANFORD.EDU and UCSD.EDU (see ftp list above)
The CIA database consists of coastlines, rivers and political boundaries
in the form of line strokes. Also on hanauma.stanford.edu is a 720x360
array of elevation data, containing one ieee floating point number for
every half degree longitude and latitude.
A program for decoding the database, mfil, can be found on the machine
pi1.arc.umn.edu (137.66.130.11).
There's another program, which reads a compressed CIA Data Bank file and
builds a PHIGS hierachical structure. It uses a PHIGS extension known as
polyline sets for performance, but you can use regular polylines. Ask
Joe Stewart <joes@lpi.liant.com>.
The raw data at Stanford require the vplot package to be able to view it.
(was posted in comp.sources.unix). To be more exact, you'll have to
compile just the libvplot routines, not the whole package.
NCAR data
---------
NCAR (National Center for Atmospheric Research) has many types of
terrain data, ranging from elevation datasets at
various resolutions, to information about soil types, vegetation, etc.
This data is not free -- they charge from $40 to $90 or more, depending
on the data volume and media (exabyte tape, 3480 cartridge, 9-track tape,
IBM PC floppy, and FTP transfer are all available). Their data archive
is mostly research oriented, not hobbyist oriented. For more information,
email to ilana@ncar.ucar.edu.
UNC data tapes with voxel data
--------------
There are 2 "public domain" tapes with data for the comparison and
testing of various volume rendering algorithms (mainly MRI and CT
scans). These tapes are distributed by the SoftLab of UNC @ Chapel Hill.
(softlab@cs.unc.edu)
The data sets (volume I and II) are also available via anonymous FTP from
omicron.cs.unc.edu [128.109.136.159] in pub/softlab/CHVRTD
NASA
----
Many US agencies such as NASA publish CD-ROMs with many altimetry data
from various space missions, eg. Viking for Mars, Magellan for Venus,
etc. Especially for NASA, I would suggest to call the following
address for more info:
National Space Science Date Center
Goddard Space Flight Center
Greenbelt, Maryland 20771
Telephone: (301) 286-6695
Email address: request@nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov
The data catalog (*not* the data itself) is available online.
Internet users can telnet to nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov (128.183.10.4) and log
in as 'NODIS' (no password).
You can also dial in at (301)-286-9000 (300, 1200, or 2400 baud, 8 bits,
no parity, one stop). At the "Enter Number:" prompt, enter MD and
carriage return. When the system responds "Call Complete," enter a few
more carriage returns to get the "Username:" and log in as 'NODIS' (no
password).
NSSDCA is also an anonymous FTP site, but no comprehensive list of
what's there is available at present.
Earth Sciences Data
-------------------
There's a listing of anonymous FTP sites for earth science data, including
imagery. This listing is called "Earth Sciences Resources on Internet",
and you can get it via anonymous FTP from csn.org [128.138.213.21]
in the directory COGS under the name "internet.resources.earth.sci"
Some sites include:
aurelie.soest.hawaii.edu [128.171.151.121]: pub/avhrr/images - AVHRR images
ames.arc.nasa.gov [128.102.18.3]: pub/SPACE/CDROM - images from
Magellan and Viking missions etc.
pub/SPACE/Index contains a listing of files available in the whole
archive (the index is about 200K by itself). There's also an
e-mail server for the people without Internet access: send a letter
to archive-server@ames.arc.nasa.gov (or ames!archive-server). In the
subject of your letter (or in the body), use commands like:
send SPACE Index
send SPACE SHUTTLE/ss01.23.91
(Capitalization is important! Only text files are handled by the
email server at present)
vab02.larc.nasa.gov [128.155.23.47]: pub/gifs/misc/landsat -
Landsat photos in GIF and JPEG format
[ It was shut down - nfotis; anyone has a copy of this archive?? ]
Others
------
Daily values of river discharge, streamflow, and daily weather data is
available from EarthInfo, 5541 Central Ave., Boulder CO 80301. These
disks are expensive, around $500, but there are quantity discounts.
(303) 938-1788.
Check vmd.cso.uiuc.edu [128.174.5.98], the wx directory carries
data regarding surface analysis, weather radar, and sat view pics in
GIF format (updated hourly)
pioneer.unm.edu [129.24.9.217] is the Space and Planetary Image Facility
(located on the University of New Mexico campus) FTP server. It provides
Anonymous FTP access to >150 CD-ROMS with data/images.
A disk with earthquake data, topography, gravity, geopolitical info
is available from NGDC (National Geophysical Data Center), 325 Broadway,
Boulder, CO 80303. (303) 497-6958.
EOSAT (at least in the US) now sells Landsat MSS data older than two years
old for $200 per scene, and they have been talking about a similar deal
for Landsat TM data. The MSS data are 4 bands, 80 meter resolution.
Check out anonymous FTP to ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu in
UNIX/PolyView/alpha-shape for a tool that creates convex hulls
alpha-shapes (a generalization of the convex hull) from 3D point sets.
The GRIPS II (Gov. Raster Image Processing Software) CD-ROM
is available from CD-ROM Inc. at 1-800-821-5245 for $49.
Code for viewing ADRG (Arc Digitised Raster Graphics) files is
available on the GRIPS II CD-ROM. The U.S. Army Engineer
Topographic Labs (Juan Perez) code is also available via FTP
( adrg.zip archive in spectrum.xerox.com )
NRCC range data
---------------
Rioux M., Cournoyer L. "The NRCC Three-Dimensional Image Data Files",
Tech. Report, CNRC 29077, National Research Council Canada,
Ottawa, Canada, 1988
[ From what I understand, these data are from a laser range finder,
and you can a copy for research purposes ]
==========================================================================
12. 3D scanners - Digitized 3D Data
===================================
a. Cyberware Labs, Monterey, CA, manufactures a 3D color laser digitizer
which can be used to model parts of, or a complete, human body.
They run a service bureau also, so they can digitize models for you.
Address:
Cyberware Labs, Inc
8 Harris Ct, Suite 3D
Monterey, CA 93940
Phone: (408)373-1441, Fax: (408)373-3582
b. Polhemus makes a 6D input device (actually a couple of models)
that senses position (3D) and *orientation* (+3D) based on electromagnetic
field interference. This equipment is also incorporated in the
VPL Dataglove.
This hardware is also called ISOTRACK, from Keiser Aerospace.
Ascension Technology makes a similar 3D input device.
There is a company, Applied Sciences(?), that makes a 3D input
device (position only) based on speed of sound triangulation.
c. A company that specializes in digitizing is Viewpoint. You can ask
for Viewpoint's _free_ 100 page catalog full of ready to
ship datasets from categories such as cars, anatomy, aircraft,sports,
boats, trains, animals and others. Though these objects are
quite expensive, the cataloge is nevertheless of interest for it
has pictures of all the available objects in wireframe , polygon mesh.
Contact:
Viewpoint,
870 West Center,
Orem, Utah 84057
ph# 801-224-2222
fax# 801-224-2272
1-800-DATASET
------
Some addresses for companies that make digitizers:
Ascension Technology
Bird, Flock of Birds, Big Bird: 6d trackers
P.O. Box 527,
Burlington, VT 05402
Phone: (802) 655-7879, Fax: (802) 655-5904
Polhemus Incorporated
Digitizer: 6d trackers
P.O. Box 560, Hercules Dr.
Colchester, Vt. 05446
Tel: (802) 655-3159
Logitech Inc.
Red Baron, ultrasonic 6D mouse
6506 Kaiser Dr.
Freemont, CA 94555
Tel: (415) 795-8500w
Shooting Star Technology
Mechanical Headtracker
1921 Holdom Ave.
Burnaby, B.C. Canada V5B 3W4
Tel: (604) 298-8574
Fax: (604) 298-8580
Spaceball Technologies, Inc.
Spaceball: 6d stationary input device
600 Suffolk Street
Lowell, MA, 01854
Tel: (508) 970-0330
Fax: (508) 970-0199
Tel in Mountain View: (415) 966-8123
Transfinite Systems
Gold Brick: PowerGlove for Macintosh
P.O. Box N
MIT Branch Post Office
Cambridge, MA 02139-0903
Tel: (617) 969-9570
email: D2002@AppleLink.Apple.com
VPL Research, Inc.
EyePhone: head-mounted display
DataGlove: glove/hand input device
VPL Research Inc.
950 Tower Lane
14th Floor
Foster City, CA 94404
Tel: (415) 312-0200
Fax: (415) 312-9356
SimGraphics Engineering
Flying Mouse: 6d input device
1137 Huntington Rd. Suite A-1
South Pasadena, CA 91030-4563
(213) 255-0900
========================================================================
13. Background imagery/textures/datafiles
=========================================
First, check in the FTP places that are mentioned in the FAQ or in the FTP
list above.
24-bit scanning:
----------------
Get a good 24-bit scanner, like Epson's. Suggested is an SCSI port for
speed. Eric Haines had a suggestion in RT News, Volume 4, #3 :
scan textures for wallpapers and floor coverings, etc. from doll
house supplies.
So you have a rather cheap way to scan patterns that don't have
scaling troubles associated with real materials and scanning area.
Books with textures:
--------------------
Find some houses/books/magazines that carry photographic material.
Educorp, 1-619-536-9999, sells CD-ROMS with various imagery - also
a wide variety of stock art is available.
Stock art from big-name stock art houses, such as Comstock,
UNIPHOTO, and Metro Image Base, is available.
In Italy, there's a company called Belvedere that makes such books
for the purpose of clipping their pages for inclusion in your
graphics work. Their address is:
Edition Belvedere Co. Ltd.,
00196 Rome Italy,
Piazzale Flaminio, 19
Tel. (06) 360-44-88, Fax (06) 360-29-60
Texture Libraries:
------------------
a. Mannikin Sceptre Graphics announced TexTiles, a set of 256x256 24-bit
textures. Initial shipments in 24-bit IFF (for Amigas), soon in 24-bit
TIFF format. Algorithmically built for tiled surfaces. SRP is $40 / volume
(each volume = 40 images @ 10 disks). Demo disks for $5 are available.
Contact:
Mannikin Sceptre Graphics
1600 Indiana Ave.
Winter Park, FL 32789
Phone: (407) 384-9484
FAX: (407) 647-7242
b. ESSENCE is a library of 65 (sixty-five) new algoritmic textures for Imagine
by Impulse, Inc. These textures are FULLY compatible with the floating point
versions of Imagine 2.0, Imagine 1.1, and even Turbo Silver.
Written by Steve Worley.
For more info contact:
Essence Info
Apex Software Publishing
405 El Camino Real Suite 121
Menlo Park CA 94025 USA
[ What about Texture City ?? ]
==========================================================================
14. Introduction to rendering algorithms
========================================
a. Ray-Tracing:
---------------
I assume you have a general understanding of Computer Graphics. No? Then read
some of the books that the FAQ contains. For Ray-Tracing, I would
suggest:
An Introduction to Ray Tracing, Andrew Glassner (ed.), Academic Press
1989, ISBN 0-12-286160-4
Note that I have not read the book, but I feel that you can't be wrong
using his book. An errata list was posted in comp.graphics by Eric Haines
(erich@eye.com)
There's a more concise reference also:
Roman Kuchkuda , UNC @ Chapel Hill: "An Introduction to Ray Tracing", in
"Theoretical Foundations for Computer Graphics and CAD", ed. R.A.E.Earnshaw,
NATO AS, Vol. F-40., pp. 1039-1060. Printed by Springer-Verlag, 1988.
It contains code for a small, but fundamentally complete ray-tracer.
b. Z-buffer (depth-buffer)
--------------------------
A good reference is:
_Procedural Elements for Computer Graphics_, David F. Rogers,
McGraw-Hill, New York, 1985, pages 265-272 and 280-284.
c. Others:
----------
???
[ More info is needed -- nfotis ]
========================================================================
15. Where can I find the geometric data for the:
================================================
a. Teapot ?
-----------
"Displays on Display" column of IEEE CG&A Jan '87 has the whole
story about origin of the Martin Newell's teapot. The article also has
the bezier patch model and a Pascal program to display the wireframe
model of the teapot.
IEEE CG&A Sep '87 in Jim Blinn's column "Jim Blinn's Corner" describes
an another way to model the teapot; Bezier curves with rotations for
example are used.
The OFF and SPD packages have these objects, so you're advised to get
them to avoid typing the data yourself. The OFF data is triangles at
a specific resolution (around 8x8[x4 triangles] meshing per patch).
The SPD package provides the spline patch descriptions and performs a
tessellation at any specified resolution.
b. Space Shuttle ?
------------------
Tolis Lerios <tolis@nova.stanford.edu> has built a list of Space Shuttle
datafiles. Here's a summary (From his sci.space list):
model1:
A modified version of the newsgroup model (model2)
406 vertices (296 useful, i.e. referred to in the polygon descriptions.)
389 polygons (233 3-vertex, 146 4-vertex, 7 5-vertex, 3 6-vertex).
Payload doors non-existent.
Units: unknown.
Simon Marshall (S.Marshall@sequent.cc.hull.ac.uk) has a copy. He
said there is no proprietary information associated with it.
model2:
The newsgroup model, in OFF format. You can find it in
gondwana.ecr.mu.oz.au , file pub/off/objects/shuttle.geo
hanauma.stanford.edu , /pub/graphics/Comp.graphics/objects/shuttle.data
model3:
The triangles' model.
This model is stored in several files, each defining portions of the model.
Greg Henderson (henders@infonode.ingr.com) has a copy. He did
not mention any restriction on the model's distribution.
model4:
The NASA model.
The file starts off with a header line containing three real numbers,
defining the offsets used by Lockheed in their simulations:
<x offset> <y offset> <z offset>
From then on, the file consists of a sequence of polygon descriptions
3473 vertices.
2748 polygons (407 3-vertex, 2268 4-vertex, 33 5-vertex, 14 6-vertex,
10 7-vertex, 8 8-vertex, 8 12-vertex, 2 13-vertex, 2 15-vertex,
17 16-vertex, 2 17-vertex, 2 18-vertex, 3 19-vertex, 8 24-vertex).
Payload doors closed.
Units: inches.
Jon Berndt (jon@l14h11.jsc.nasa.gov) seems to be responsible for the model
Proprietary info: unknown
model5:
The old shuttle model.
The file consists of a sequence of polygon descriptions.
104 vertices.
452 polygons (11 3-vertex, 41 4-vertex).
Payload doors open.
Units: meters.
We have been using this model at STAR Labs, Stanford University, for
some years now. Contact me (tolis@nova.stanford.edu) or my supervisor
Scott Williams (scott@star5.stanford.edu) if you want a copy.
========================================================================
16. Image annotation software
=============================
[ Perhaps I should change this subject to paint programs in general?? ]
TOUCHUP
-------
Touchup runs in Sunview and is pretty good. It reads in
rasterfiles, but even if your image isn't normally stored
in rasterfile format you could use screendump to make it a
rasterfile.
IDRAW
-----
Idraw (part of Stanford's InterViews distribution) can handle some
image formats in addition to being a MacDraw like tool. I'm not
sure exactly what they are.
You can ftp the idraw's binary from interviews.stanford.edu.
TGIF
----
Tgif is another MacDraw like tool that can handle X11 bitmap (xbm)
and X11 pixmap (xpm) formats. If the image you have is in formats
other than xbm or xpm, you can get the pbmplus toolkit to convert
things like gif or even some Macintosh formats to xpm.
Tgif's sources are available in the pub directory on cs.ucla.edu
(Version 2.12 of tgif at patchlevel 7 plus patch8 and patch9)
Editimage
---------
Use the editimage facility of KHOROS (see under the Visualization tools).
This is just one utility in the overall system- you can essentially do all
your image processing and macdraw-type graphics using this package.
PBM+
----
You might be able to get by with PBMPlus. pbmtext gives you text output
bitmaps which can be overlaid on top of your image.
ICE
---
'ice' requires Sun hardware running OpenWindows 3.It's a PostScript-based
graphical editor,and it's available for anonymous ftp from Internet host
eo.soest.hawaii.edu (128.171.151.12). Requires Sun C++ 2.0 and
two other locally developed packages, the LXT library (an Xlib-based
toolkit) and a small C++ class library. All files (pub/ice.tar.Z,
pub/lxt.tar.Z and pub/ldgoc++.tar.Z) are available in compressed
tar format. pub/ice.tar.Z contains a README that gives installation
instructions, as well as an extensive man page (ice.1).
A statically-linked compressed executable pub/ice-sun4.Z for
SPARC systems is also available for ftp.
All software is the property of Columbia University and may not
be redistributed without permission.
ice means Image Composition Environment and it's an imaging tool that
allows raster images to be combined with a wide variety of
PostScript annotations in WYSIWYG fashion via X11 imaging
routines and NeWS PostScript rasterizing.
ImageMagick
-----------
Use ImageMagick to annotate an image from your X server. Pick the
position of your text with the cursor and choose your font and pen
color from a pull-down menu. ImageMagick can read and write many
of the more popular image formats. ImageMagick is available as
export.lcs.mit.edu: contrib/ImageMagick.tar.Z or at your nearest
X11 archive.
BIT
---
bit is an interactive full color image viewer and editor based on
Silicon Graphics GL. It's an image viewer, an image editor/processor,
and can serve as a launch pad for other applications via key bindings.
It has also built-in editing/annotate capabilities
========================================================================
17. Scientific visualization stuff
==================================
X Data Slice (xds)
-------------------
Bundled with the X11 distribution from MIT,
in the contrib directory. Available at ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu [141.142.20.50]
(either as a source or binaries for various platforms).
National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) Tool Suite
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Platforms: Unix Workstations (DEC, IBM, SGI, Sun)
Apple MacIntosh
Cray supercomputers
Availability: Now available. Source code in the public domain.
FTP from ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu.
Contact: National Center for Supercomputing Applications
Computing Applications Building
605 E. Springfield Ave.
Champaign, IL 61820
Cost: Free (zero dollars).
The suite includes tools for 2D image and 3D scene analysis and visualization.
The code is actively maintained and updated.
Spyglass
--------
They sell commercial versions of the NCSA tools. Examples are:
Spyglass Dicer (3D volumetric data analysis package)
Platform: Mac
Spyglass Transform (2D data analysis package)
Platforms: Mac, SGI, Sun, DEC, HP, IBM
Contact:
Spyglass, Inc.
P.O. Box 6388
Champaign, IL 61826
(217) 355-6000
KHOROS 1.0 Patch 5
------------------
Available via anonymous ftp at pprg.eece.unm.edu (129.24.24.10).
cd to /pub/khoros to see what is available. It is HUGE (> 100 MB), but good.
Needs Unix and X11R4. Freely copied (NOT PD), complete with sources
and docs. Very extensive and at its heart is visual programming.
Khoros components include a visual programming language, code
generators for extending the visual language and adding new application
packages to the system, an interactive user interface editor, an
interactive image display package, an extensive library of image and
signal processing routines, and 2D/3D plotting packages.
See comp.soft-sys.khoros on Usenet and the relative FAQ for more info....
Contact:
The Khoros Group
Room 110 EECE Dept.
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131
Email: khoros-request@chama.eece.unm.edu
MacPhase
--------
Analysis & Visualization Application for the Macintosh.
Operates on 1D and 2D data arrays. Import/Export several different file
formats. Several different plotting options such as gray scale,
color raster, 3D Wire frame, 3D surface, contour, vector, line, and
combinations. FFTs, filtering, and other math functions, color look up
editor, array calculator, etc. Shareware, available via anonymous ftp from
sumex-aim.stanford.edu in the info-mac/app directory.
For other information contact Doug Norton (e-mail: 74017.461@@compuserve.com)
IRIS Explorer
-------------
It's an application creation system developed by Silicon
Graphics that provides visualisation and analysis functionality for
computational scientists, engineers and other scientists. The Explorer
GUI allows users to build custom applications without having to write
any, or a minimal amount of, traditonal code. Also, existing code can
be easily integrated into the Explorer environment. Explorer currently
is available now on SGI and Cray machines, but will become available on
other platforms in time. [ Bundled with every new SGI machine, as far as
I know]
See comp.graphics.explorer or comp.sys.sgi for discussion of the package.
There are also two FTP servers for related stuff, modules etc.:
ftp.epcc.ed.ac.uk [129.215.56.29]
swedishchef.lerc.nasa.gov [139.88.54.33] - mirror of the UK site
apE
---
Back in the 'old good days', you could get apE for nearly free.
Now has gone commercial and the following vendor supplies it:
TaraVisual Corporation
929 Harrison Avenue
Columbus, Ohio 43215
Tel: 1-800-458-8731 and (614) 291-2912
Fax: (614) 291-2867
Cost:
$895 (plus tax); runtime version with a site-license for a single user
(at a time), no limit on the number of machines in a cluster.
$895 includes support/maintenance and upgrades.
Source code more. Additional user licenses $360.
The name of the package has become apE III (TM).
Khoros is very similar to apE on philosophy, as are AVS and Explorer.
AVS
---
See also:
comp.graphics.avs
Platforms: CONVEX, CRAY, DEC, Evans & Sutherland, HP, IBM, Kubota,
Set Technologies, SGI, Stardent, SUN, Wavetracer
Availability: AVS4 available on all the above:
For all UNIX workstations.
Contact:
Advanced Visual Systems Inc.
300 Fifth Ave.
Waltham, MA 02154
(617)-890-4300 Telephone
(617)-890-8287 Fax
avs@avs.com Email
Advanced Visual Systems Inc. for: CRAY, HP, IBM, SGI, Stardent, SUN
CONVEX for CONVEX
Advanced Visual Systems Inc. or CRAY for CRAY
DEC for DEC
Evans & Sutherland for Evans & Sutherland
Advanced Visual Systems Inc. or IBM for IBM
Kubota Pacific Inc. for Kubota
Set Technologies for Set Technologies
Wavetracer for Wavetracer
FTP Site: for modules, data sets, other info:
avs.ncsc.org (128.109.178.23)
WIT
---
In a nutshell it's a package of the same genre as AVS,Explorer,etc.
It seems more a image processing system than a generic SciVi system (IMHO)
Major elements are:
- a visual programming language, which automatically exploits the inherent
parallelism
- a code generator which converts the graph to a standalone program
Iconified libraries present a rich set of point, filter, io, transform,
morphological, segmentation, and measurement operations.
A flow library allows graphs to employ broadcast, merge,
synchronization, conditional, and sequencing control strategies.
WIT delivers an object-oriented, distributed, visual programming
environment which allows users to rapidly design solutions to their
imaging problems. Users can consolidate both software and hardware
developments within a complete CAD-like workspace by adding their
own operators (C functions), objects (data structures), and servers
(specialized hardware). WIT runs on Sun, HP9000/7xx, SGI and supports
Datacube MV-20/200 hardware allowing you to run your graphs in real-time.
For a free WIT demo disk, call, FAX, or e-mail (poon@ee.ubc.ca)
us stating your complete name, address, voice, FAX, e-mail info.
and desired platform.
Pricing: WIT for Sparc, one yr. free upgrades, 30 days
technical support....................$5000 US
Academic institutions: discounts available
Contact:
Logical Vision Ltd.
Suite 108-3700 Gilmore Way
Burnaby, B.C., CANADA
V5G 4M1
Tel: 604-435-2587
Fax: 604-435-8840
Terry Arden <poon@ee.ubc.ca>
VIS-5D
------
A system for visually exploring the output of 5-D gridded data sets
such as those made by weather models. Platforms:
SGI IRIS with VGX, GTX, TG, or G graphics,
SGI Crimson or Indigo (R4000, Elan graphics suggested), IRIX 4.0.x
IBM RS/6000 with GL graphics, AIX version 3 or later;
Stardent GS-1000 and GS-2000 (with TrueColor display)
In any case, 32 (or more) MB of RAM are suggested.
You can get it freely (thanks to NASA support) via anonymous ftp:
ftp iris.ssec.wisc.edu (or ftp 144.92.108.63), then
ftp> cd pub/vis5d
ftp> ascii
ftp> get README
ftp> bye
NOTE: You can find the package also on wuarchive.wustl.edu in the
graphics/graphics/packages directory.
Read section 2 of the README file for full instructions
on how to get and install VIS-5D.
Contact:
Bill Hibbard (whibbard@vms.macc.wisc.edu)
Brian Paul (bpaul@vms.macc.wisc.edu)
DATAexplorer (IBM)
------------------
Platforms : IBM Risc System 6000, IBM POWER Visualization Server
(SIMD mesh 32 i860s, 40 MHz)
Working on (announced) : SGI, HP, Sun
Contact:
Your local IBM Rep. For a trial package ask your rep to contact :
David Kilgore
Data Explorer Product Marketing
YKTVMH(KILCORE), (708) 981-4510
+ There's an FTP repository at ftp.tc.cornell.edu : /pub/vis/Data.Explorer,
+ a Gopher interface at info@tc.cornell.edu, and a mailing-list at
+ data-exp@watson.ibm.com
Wavefront
---------
Data Visualizer, Personal Visualizer, Advanced Visualizer.
Platforms: SGI, SUN, IBM RS6000, HP, DEC
Availability:
Available on all the above platforms from Wavefront
Technologies. Educational programs and site licenses are
available.
Contacts:
Mike Wilson (mike@wti.com)
Wavefront Technologies, Inc.
530 East Montecito Street
Santa Barbara, CA 93103
805-962-8117
FAX: 805-963-0410
Wavefront Europe
Guldenspoorstraat 21-23
B-9000 Gent, Belgium
32-91-25-45-55
FAX: 32-91-23-44-56
Wavefront Technologies Japan
17F Shinjuku-sumitomo Bldg
2-6-1 Nishi-shinjuku, Shunjuku-Ku
Tokyo 168 Japan
81-3-3342-7330
FAX 81-3-3342-7353
PLOT3D and FAST from NASA Ames
------------------------------
These packages are distributed from COSMIC at least
(for FAST ask Pat Elson <pelson@nas.nasa.gov> for
distribution information). In general, these codes are for US
citizens only :-(
+[ Call COSMIC, NASA's software ditribution center for details ]
XGRAPH
------
On the contrib tape of X11R5. Its specialty is display of up
to 64 data sets (2D).
NCAR
----
National Center for Atmospheric Research. One of the original graphics
packages. Runs on Sun, RS6000, SGI, VAX, Cray Y-MP, DecStations, and more.
Contact:
Graphics Information
NCAR Scientific Computing Division
P.O. Box 3000
Boulder, CO 80307-3000
(303)-497-1201
scdinfo@ncar.ucar.edu
Cost:
.edu
$750 Unlimited users
.gov
$750 1 user
$1500 5 users
$3000 25 users
.com users multiply .gov * 2.0
IDL
---
An environment for scientific computing and visualization.
Based on an array oriented language, IDL includes 2D and 3D
graphics, matrix manupulation, signal and image processing,
basic statistics, gridding, mapping, and a widget based system
for building GUI for IDL applications (Open Look, Motif, or
MS-Windows).
Environments: DEC (VMS and Ultrix), HP, IBM RS6000, SGI, Sun,
Microsoft Windows. (Mac version in progress)
Cost: $1500 to $3750, Educational and quantity discounts
available.
See also: comp.lang.idl-pvwave (the IDL-PVWAVE bundle)
Contact: Research Systems Inc.
777 29th Street, Suite 302
Boulder, CO 80303
Phone: 303-786-9900
FAX: 303-786-9909
E-mail: info@rsinc.com
Demo available via FTP. Call or E-mail for details.
IDL/SIPS
--------
"A lot of people are using IDL with a package called SIPS. This was
developed at the University of Colorado (Boulder) by some people working
for Alex Goetz. You might try contacting them if you already have IDL
or would be willing to buy it. It's a few thousand dollars (American) I
expect for IDL and the other should be free. Those are the general
purpose packages I've heard of, besides what TerraMar has.
SIPS _was_ written for AVIRIS imagery. I'm not sure how general purpose
it is. You would have to contact Goetz or one of his people and ask. I
have another piece of software (PCW) that does PC and Walsh
transformations with pseudocoloring and clustering and limited image
modification (you can compute an image using selected components). I've
used it on 70 megabyte AVIRIS images without problems, but for the best
speed you need an external DSP card. It will work without it, but large
images take quite a while (50-70 times as long) to process. That's a
freebie if you want it"
"My favorite is IDL (Interactive Data Language) from Research Systems,
Inc. IDL is in my opinion, much better and infinitely easier. Its
programming language is very strong and easy -- very Pascal-like. It
handles the number-crunching very well, also. Personally, I like doing
the number-crunching with IDL on the VAX (or Mathematica, Igor, or even
Excel on the Mac if it's not too hairy), then bringing it over to NIH
Image for the imaging part. I have yet to encounter any situation which
that combination couldn't handle, and the speed and ease of use
(compared to IRAF) was incredible. By the way, it's mostly astronomical
image processing which I've been doing. This means image enhancement,
cleaning up bad lines/pixels, and some other traditional image
processing routines. Then, for example, taking a graph of intensity
versus position along a line I choose with the mouse, then doing a curve
fit to that line (which I might do like in KaleidaGraph.) "
[ For IDL call Research Systems , for PV-WAVE call Precision Visuals and
for SIPS call University of Colorado @ Boulder . From what I can
understand, you can get packaged programs from Research Systems, though
-- nfotis ]
Visual3
-------
contact Robert Haimes, MIT
FieldView
---------
An interactive program designed to assist an engineer in
investigating fluid dynamics data sets.
Platforms: SGI, IBM, HP, SUN, X-terminals
Availability: Currently available on all of the above
platforms. Educational programs and volume
discounts are available.
Contact:
Intelligent Light
P.O. Box 65
Fair Lawn, NJ 07410
(201)794-7550
Steve Kramer (kramer@ilight.com)
SciAn
------
SciAn is primarily intended to do 3-D visualizations of data in an
interactive environment with the ability to generate animations using
frame-accurate video recording devices. A user manual, on-line help, and
technical notes will help you use the program.
Cost : 0 (Free), source code provided via ftp.
Platforms : SGI 4D machines and IBM RS/6000 with the GL card + Z-buffer
Where to find it:
ftp.scri.fsu.edu [144.174.128.34] : /pub/SciAn
A mirror is monu1.cc.monash.edu.au [130.194.1.101] : /pub/SciAn
SCRY
----
[ From the README : ]
Scry is a distributed image handling system that pro-
vides image transport and compression on local and wide area
networks, image viewing on workstations, recording on video
equipment, and storage on disk. The system can be distri-
buted among workstations, between supercomputers and works-
tations, and between supercomputers, workstations and video
animation controllers. The system is most commonly used to
produce video based movie displays of images resulting from
visualization of time dependent data, complex 3D data sets,
and image processing operations. Both the clients and
servers run on a variety of systems that provide UNIX-like C
run-time environments, and 4BSD sockets.
The source is available for anonymous ftp:
csam.lbl.gov [128.3.254.6] : pub/scry.tar.Z
Contact:
Bill Johnston, (wejohnston@lbl.gov, ...ucbvax!csam.lbl.gov!johnston)
or
David Robertson (dwrobertson@lbl.gov, ...ucbvax!csam.lbl.gov!davidr)
Imaging Technologies Group
MS 50B/2239
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
1 Cyclotron Road
Berkeley, CA 94720
SVLIB / FVS
-----------
SVLIB is an X-Windows widget set based on the OSF (Open Software
Foundation) Motif widget set. SVLIB widgets are macro-widgets
comprising lower level Motif widgets such as buttons, scrollbars,
menus, and drawing areas. It is designed to address the reusability
of 2D visualization routines and each widget in the library is an
encapsulation of a specific visualization technique such as colormap
manipulation, image display, and contour plotting. It is targetted
to run on UNIX workstations supporting OSF/Motif. Currently, only
color monitors are supported. Since SVLIB is a collection of widgets
developed in the same spirit as the OSF/Motif user interface widget
set, it integrates seamlessly with the Motif widgets. Programmers
using SVLIB widgets see the same interface and design as other
Motif widgets.
FVS is a visualization software for Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
simulations. FVS is designed to accept data generated from these
simulations and apply various visualization techniques to present these
data graphically.
FVS accepts three-dimensional multi-block data recorded in NCSA HDF format.
iti.gov.sg [192.122.132.130] : /pub/svlib (Scientific Visualization)
/pu/fvs; These directories contain demo binaries for Sun4/SGI
Cost : US$200 for academic and US$300 for non-academic institutions.
(For each of the above items). You're getting the source for the licence.
Contact
-------
Miss Quek Lee Hian
Member of Technical Staff
Information Technology Institute
National Computer Board
NCB Building
71, Sicence Park Drive
Singapore 0511
Republic of Singapore
Tel : (65)7720435
Fax : (65)7795966
Email : leehian@iti.gov.sg
---------------------------------------------------------
GVLware Distribution:
Bob - An interactive volume renderer for the SGI
Raz - A disk based movie player for the SGI
Icol - Motif color editor
---------------------------------------------------------
The Army High Performance Computing Research Center (AHPCRC) has been
developing a set of tools to work with large time dependent 2D and 3D
data sets. In the Graphics and Visualization Lab (GVL) we are using
these tools along side standard packages, such as SGI Explorer and the
Utah Raster Toolkit, to render 3D volumes and create digital movies.
A couple of the more general purpose programs have been bundled into a
package called "GVLware".
GVLware, currently consisting of Bob, Raz and Icol, is now available
via ftp. The most interesting program is probably Bob, an interactive
volume renderer for the SGI. Raz streams raster images from disk to
an SGI screen, enabling movies larger than memory to be played. Icol
is a color map editor that works with Bob and Raz. Source and
pre-built binaries for IRIX 4.0.5 are included.
To acquire GVLware, anonymous ftp to:
machine - ftp.arc.umn.edu
file - /pub/gvl.tar.Z
To use GVLware:
mkdir gvl ; cd gvl
zcat gvl.tar.Z | tar xvf -
more README
Some Bob features:
Motif interface, SGI GL rendering
Renders 64 cubed data set in 0.1 to 1.0 seconds on a VGX
Alpha Compositing and Maximum Value rendering, in perspective
(only Maximum Value rendering on Personal Iris)
Data must be a "Brick of Bytes", on a regularly spaced grid
Animation, subvolumes, subsampling, stereo
Some Raz features:
Motif interface, SGI GL rendering
Loads files to a raw disk partition, then streams to screen
(requires an empty disk partition to be set aside)
Script interface available for movie sequences
Can stream from memory, like NCSA XImage
Some Icol features:
Motif interface
Easy to create interpolated color maps between key points
RGB, HSV and YUV color spaces, multiple file formats
Communicates changes automatically to Bob and Raz
Has been tested on SGI, Sun, DEC and Cray systems
BTW: Bob == Brick of Bytes
Icol == Interpolated Color
Raz == ? (just a name)
Please send any comments to
gvlware@ahpcrc.umn.edu
This software collection is supported by the Army Research Office
contract number DAALO3-89-C-0038 with the University of Minnesota Army
High Performance Computing Research Center.
IAP
---
Imaging Applications Platform is a commercial package for medical and
scientific visualization. It does volume rendering, binary surface
rendering, multiplanar reformating, image manipulation, cine sequencing,
intermixes geometry and text with images and provides measurement and
coordinate transform abilities.
It can provide hardcopy on most medical film printers, image database
functionality and interconnection to most medical (CT/MRI/etc) scanners.
It is client/server based and provides an object oriented interface. It
runs on most high performance workstations and takes full advantage of
parallelism where it is available. It is robust, efficient and
will be submitted for FDA approval for use in medical applications.
Cost: $20K for OEM developer, $10K for educational developer
and run times starting at $8900 and going down based on quantity.
The developer packages include two days training for two people in Toronto.
Available from:
ISG Technologies
6509 Airport Road
Mississauga, Ontario,
Canada, L4V-1S7
(416) 672-2100
e-mail: Rod Gilchrist <rod@isgtec.com>
========================================================================
18. Molecular visualization stuff
=================================
[ Based on a list from cristy@dupont.com < Cristy > , which asked for
systems for displaying Molecular Dynamics, MD for short ]
Flex
----
It is a public domain package written by Michael Pique, at The Scripps
Research Institute, La Jolla, CA. Flex is stored as a compressed,
tar'ed archive (about 3.4MB) at perutz.scripps.edu [137.131.152.27], in
pub/flex. It displays molecular models and MD trajectories.
MacMolecule
-----------
(for Macintosh). I searched with Archie, and the most
promising place is sumex-aim.stanford.edu (info-mac/app, and
info-mac/art/qt for a demo)
MD-DISPLAY
----------
Runs on SGI machines. Call Terry Lybrand (lybrand@milton.u.washington.edu).
XtalView
--------
It is a crystallography package that does visualize molecules and much more.
It uses the XView toolkit.
Call Duncan McRee <dem@scripps.edu>
landman@hal.physics.wayne.edu:
-----------------------------
I am writing my own visualization code right now. I look at MD output
(a specific format, easy to alter for the subroutine) on PC's. My
program has hooks into GKS. If your friend has access to Phigs for X
(PEX) and fortran bindings, I would be happy to share my evolving code
(free of charge). Right now it can display supercells of up to 65
atoms (easy to change), and up to 100 time steps, drawing nearest
neighbor bonds between 2 defining nn radii. It works acceptably fast
on a 10Mhz 286.
icsg0001@caesar.cs.montana.edu:
------------------------------
I did a project on Molecular Visualization for my Master's Thesis, using
UNIX/X11/Motif which generates a simple point and space-filling model.
KGNGRAF
-------
KGNGRAF is part of MOTECC-91. Look on malena.crs4.it (156.148.7.12),
in pub/motecc.
motecc.info.txt Information about MOTECC-91 in plain ascii format.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
motecc.info.troff Information about MOTECC-91 in troff format.
motecc.form.troff MOTECC-91 order form in troff format.
motecc.license.troff MOTECC-91 license agreement in troff format.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
motecc.info.ps Information about MOTECC-91 in PostScript format.
motecc.form.ps MOTECC-91 order form in PostScript format.
motecc.license.ps MOTECC-91 license agreement in PostScript format.
ditolla@itnsg1.cineca.it:
------------------------
I'm working on molecular dynamic too. A friend of mine and I have
developed a program to display an MD run dynamically on Silicon
Graphics. We are working to improve it, but it doesn't work under X,
we are using the graphi. lib. of the Silicon Gr. because they are much
faster then X. When we'll end it we'll post on the news info about
where to get it with ftp. (Will be free software).
XBall V3.0
----------
Written by David Nedde. Call daven@ivy.wpi.edu.
This program simulates bouncing balls in a window. You create the
balls in a variety of ways, and can set the gravity, elasticity,
whether balls collide or not, etc.
Includes Motif support, 3-d shaded balls, and a demo running facility.
[ It's more a demo than a production program - another like it is xgas from
the X11 distribution. Someone could make something more elaborate with
polyatomics, etc. ]
XMol
----
An X Window System program that uses OSF/Motif for the
display and analysis of molecular model data. Data from several
common file formats can be read and written; current formats include:
Alchemy, CHEMLAB-II, Gaussian, MOLSIM, MOPAC, PDB, and MSCI's XYZ
format (which has been designed for simplicity in translating to
and from other formats). XMol also allows for conversion between
several of these formats.
Xmol is available at ftp.msc.edu. Read pub/xmol/README for
further details.
INSIGHT II
----------
from BIOSYM Technologies Inc.
SCARECROW
---------
The program has been published in J. Molecular Graphics 10
(1992) 33. The program can analyze and display CHARMM, DISCOVER, YASP
and MUMOD trajectories. The program package contains also software for
the generation of probe surfaces, proton affinity
surfaces and molecular orbitals from an extended Huckel program.
It works on Silicon Graphics machines.
Contact Leif Laaksonen <Leif.Laaksonen@csc.fi or laaksone@csc.fi>
MULTI
-----
ns.niehs.nih.gov [157.98.8.8] : /pub - MULTI 3.0 (Multi-Process
Molecular Modeling Suite)
MindTool
--------
It runs under SunView, and requires a fortran compiler and Sun's CGI
libraries. MindTool is a tool provided for the interactive graphic
manipulation of molecules and atoms. Currently, up to 10,000
atoms may be input.
Available via anonymous FTP, at rani.chem.yale.edu, directory
/pub/MindTool ( Check with Archie for other sites if that's too far )
[ I would also suggest looking at least in SGI's Applications Directory.
It contains many more packages - nfotis ]
===========================================================================
19. GIS (Geographical Information Systems software)
===================================================
GRASS
-----
(Geographic Resource Analysis Support System) of the US Army
Construction Engineering Research Lab (CERL). It is a popular geographic and
remote sensing image processing package. Many may think of GRASS as a
Geographic Information System rather than an Image Processing package,
although it is reported to have significant image processing
capabilities.
Feature Descriptions
I use GRASS because it's public domain and can be obtained through the
internet for free. GRASS runs in Unix and is written in C. The source
code can be obtained through an anonymous ftp from the Office of Grass
Integration. You then compile the source code for your machine, using
scripts provided with GRASS. I would recommend GRASS for someone who
already has a workstation and is on a limited budget. GRASS is not very
user-friendly, compared to Macintosh software." A first review of
overview documentation indicates that it looks useful and has some pixel
resampling functions not in other packages plus good general purpose
image enhancement routines (fft). Kelly Maurice at Vexcel Corp. in
Boulder, CO is a primary user of GRASS . This gentleman has used the
GRASS software and developed multi-spectral (238 bands ??) volumetric
rendering, full color, on Suns and Stardents. It was a really effective
interface. Vexcel Corp. currently has a contract to map part of Venus
and convert the Magellan radar data into contour maps. You can call them
at (303) 444-0094 or email care of greg@vexcel.com 192.92.90.68
Host Configuration Requirements
If you are willing to run A/UX you could install GRASS on a Macintosh
which has significant image analysis and import capabilities for
satellite data. GRASS is public-domain, and can run on a high-end PC
under UNIX. It is raster-based, has some image-processing capability,
and can display vector data (but analysis must be done in the raster
environment). I have used GRASS V.3 on a SUN workstation and found it
easy to use. It is best, of course, for data that are well represented
in raster (grid-cell) form.
Availability
CERL's Office of Grass Integration (OGI) maintains an ftp server:
moon.cecer.army.mil (129.229.20.254).
Mail regarding this site should be addressed to
grass-ftp-admin@moon.cecer.army.mil.
This location will be the new "canonical" source for GRASS software, as
well as bug fixes, contributed sources, documentation, and other files.
This FTP server also supports dynamic compression and uncompression and
"tar" archiving of files. A feature attraction of the server is John
Parks' GRASS tutorial. Because the manual is still in beta-test stage,
John requests that people only acquire it if they are willing to review
it and mail him comments/corrections. The OGI is not currently
maintaining this document, so all correspondence about it should be
directed to grassx@tang.uark.edu
Support
Listserv mailing lists:
grassu-list@amber.cecer.army.mil (for GRASS users; application-level
questions, support concerns, miscellaneous questions, etc) Send
subscribe commands to grassu-request@amber.cecer.army.mil.
grassp-list@amber.cecer.army.mil (for GRASS programmers; system-level
questions and tips, tricks, and techniques of design and implementation
of GRASS applications) Send subscribe commands to
grassp-request@amber.cecer.army.mil.
Both lists are maintained by the Office of Grass Integration (subset of
the Army Corps of Engineers Construction Engineering Research Lab in
Champaign, IL). The OGI is providing the lists as a service to the
community; while OGI and CERL employees will participate in the lists,
we can make no claim as to content or veracity of messages that pass
through the list. If you have questions, problems, or comments, send
E-mail to lists-owner@amber.cecer.army.mil and a human will respond.
Microstation Imager
-------------------
Intergraph (based in Huntsville Alabama) sells a wide range of GIS
software/hardware. Microstation is a base graphics package that Imager
sits on top of. Imager is basically an image processing package with a
heavy GIS/remote sensing flavor.
Feature Description
Basic geometry manipulations: flip, mirror, rotate, generalized affine.
Rectification: Affine, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th order models as well as a
projective model (warp an image to a vector map or to another image).
RGB to IHS and IHS to RGB conversion. Principal component analysis.
Classification: K-means and isodata. Fourier Xforms: Forward, filtering
and reverse. Filters: High pass, low pass, edge enhancing, median,
generic. Complex Histogram/Contrast control. Layer Controller: manages
up to 64 images at a time -- user can extract single bands from a 3 band
image or create color images by combining various individual bands, etc.
The package is designed for a remote sensing application (it can handle
VERY LARGE images) and there is all kinds of other software available
for GIS applications.
Host Configuration Requirements
It runs on Intergraph Workstations (a Unix machine similar to a Sun)
though there were rumors (there are always rumors) that the software
would be ported to PC and possibly a Sun environment.
PCI
---
A company called PCI, Inc., out of Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada, makes
an array of software utilities for processing, manipulation, and use of
remote sensing data in eight or ten different "industry standard"
formats: LGSOWG, BSQ, LANDSAT, and a couple of others whose titles I
forget. The software is available in versions for MS-DOS, Unix
workstations (among them HP, Sun, and IBM), and VMS, and quite possibly
other platforms by now. I use the VMS version.
The "PCI software" consists of several classes/groups/packages of
utilities, grouped by function but all operating on a common "PCI
database" disk file. The "Tape I/O" package is a set of utility
programs which read from the various remote-sensing industry tape
formats INTO, or write those formats out FROM, the "PCI database" file;
this is the only package I use or know much about. Other packages can
display data from the PCI database to one or another of several
PCI-supported third-party color displays, output numeric or bitmap
representation of image data to an attached printer, e.g. an Epson-type
dot-matrix graphics printer. You might be more spe- cifically
interested in the mathematical operations package: histo- gram and
Fourier analysis, equalization, user-specified operations (e.g.
"multiply channel 1 by 3, add channel 2, and store as channel 5"), and
God only knows what all else -- there's a LOT. I don't have and don't
use these, so can't say much about them; you only buy the packages your
particular application/interest calls for.
Each utility is controlled by from one to eight "parameters," read from
a common "parameter file" which must be (in VMS anyway) in your "default
directory." Some utilities will share parameters and use the same
parameter for a different purpose, so it can get a bit confusing setting
up a series of operations. The standard PCI environment contains a
scripting language very similar to IBM-PC BASIC, but which allows you to
automate the process of setting up parameters for a common, complicated,
lengthy or difficult series of utility executions. (In VMS I can also
invoke utilities independently from a DCL command procedure.) There's
also an optional programming library which allows you to write compiled
language programs which can interface with (read from/write to) the PCI
data structures (database file, parameter file).
The PCI software is designed specifically for remote-sensing images, but
requires such a level of operator expertise that, once you reach the
level where you can handle r-s images, you can figure out ways to handle
a few other things as well. For instance, the Tape I/O package offers a
utility for reading headerless multi-band (what Adobe PhotoShop on the
Macintosh calls "raw") data from tape, in a number of different
"interleave" orders. This turns out to be ideal for manipulating the
graphic-arts industry's "CT2T" format, would probably (I haven't tried)
handle Targa, and so on. Above all, however, you HAVE TO KNOW WHAT
YOU'RE DOING or you can screw up to the Nth degree and have to start
over. It's worth noting that the PCI "database" file is designed to
contain not only "raster" (image) data, but vectors (for overlaying map
information entered via digitizing table), land-use, and all manner of
other information (I observe that a remote-sensing image tape often
contains all manner of information about the spectral bands, latitude,
longitude, time, date, etc. of the original satellite pass; all of this
can go into the PCI "database").
I _believe_ that on workstations the built-in display is used. On VAX
systems OTHER than workstations PCI supports only a couple of specific
third-party display systems (the name Gould/Deanza seems to come to
mind). One of MY personal workarounds was a display program which would
display directly from a PCI "database" file to a Peritek VCT-Q (Q-bus
24-bit DirectColor) display subsystem. PCI software COULD be "overkill"
in your case; it seems designed for the very "high end"
applications/users, i.e. those for whom a Mac/PC largely doesn't suffice
(although as you know the gap is getting smaller all the time). It's
probably no coincidence that PCI is located in Canada, a country which
does a LOT of its land/resource management via remote sensing; I believe
the Canadian government uses PCI software for some of its work in these
areas.
SPAM (Spectral Analysis Manager)
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Back in 1985 JPL developed something called SPAM (Spectral Analysis
Manager) which got a fair amount of use at the time. That was designed
for Airborne Imaging Spectrometer imagery (byte data, <= 256 pixels
across by <= 512 lines by <= 256 bands); a modified version has since
been developed for AVIRIS (Airborne VIsual and InfraRed Imaging
Spectrometer) which uses much larger images.
Spam does none of these things (rectification, classification, PC and
IHS transformations, filtering, contrast enhancement, overlays).
Actually, it does limited filtering and contrast enhancement
(stretching). Spam is aimed at spectral identification and clustering.
The original Spam uses X or SunView to display. The AVIRIS version may
require VICAR, an executive based on TAE, and may also require a frame
buffer. I can refer you to people if you're interested. PCW requires X
for display.
MAP II
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Among the Mac GIS systems, MAP II is distributed by John Wiley.
CLRview
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CLRview is a 3-dimensional visualization program designed to exploit
the real-time capabilities of Silicon Graphics IRIS computers.
This program is designed to provide a core set of tools to aid in the
visualization of information from CAD and GIS sources. It supports
the integration of many common but disperate data sources such as DXF,
TIN, DEM, Lattices, and Arc/Info Coverages among others.
CLRview can be obtained from explorer.dgp.utoronto.ca (128.100.1.129)
in the directory pub/sgi/clrview.
Contact:
Rodney Hoinkes
Head of Design Applications
Centre for Landscape Research
University of Toronto
Tel: (416) 978-7197
Email: rodney@dgp.utoronto.ca
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