Los Alamos National Laboratory
					  Software and Visualization Sampler
									CD ROM
									
This CD ROM, from Los Alamos National Lab., contains a potpourri of examples 
of scientific visualizations, image manipulation software, and a multimedia 
publication system.  The CD ROM can be read by any computer that accepts ISO 
9660 format.  Images on the CD ROM, which are stored in LZW-compressed, 24 
bit/pixel TIFF format, can be read and displayed on any platform, using 
appropriate software.  Programs on the CD ROM, however, can only be run on 
Macintosh, NeXT, and Sun platforms.

Images on the CD ROM represent visualizations of simulations of climate and 
ocean modeling, turbulent flow, material fracture, and molecular dynamics.  
Some images are "movies" i.e., temporally ordered sequences of visualizations.  
Notable among these is a simulation of the long term climatological effects of 
the Iraq-initiated Kuwait oil well fires.  All images are accompanied by  descriptive text and appropriate attributions.

Programs and libraries on the CD ROM include a still image and movie sequence 
viewer for the Macintosh, a wavelet-based image compression and decompression 
program, which can run on a Sun and other platforms, and the source to the 
SLATEC Common Mathematical Library.  The latter is a comprehensive set of portable, non-proprietary mathematical routines.

Also included on the CD ROM is MediaView, a general, digital multimedia 
publishing system for the NeXT computer.  MediaView has been used to prepare a 
wide variety of documents in many disciplines, several of which are included on the disk.

A quick note regarding the translation to the ISO 9660 standard.  An effort
was made to keep the data portion of this disc strictly ISO 9660 compliant.
Because of the level 1 restriction of file name length, however, certain file
names in the source trees of this disc had to be modified.  For this reason,
translation table files are provided to make the copying of files easier.
These translation files (named "YMTRANS.TBL") are in every directory and
are ASCII readable.  In the YM_UTILS directory, there exists software in
source form that can copy the files off the CD-ROM and onto a hard disk
directory into it's original file name before ISO 9660 name translation
was done.  Instructions on use and compilation also exists in the
YM_UTILS directory.  In general, these programs will not be needed.  They
should only be necessary if the reader wishes to look at files in the source
trees in their original form.


For additional information on images and programs, contact the person
acknowledged in the corresponding *.TXT file.

All images and software are copyrighted by the University of California,
1992.

							Directory Structure
								
This file is the only one present in the highest level directory.  There
are three subdirectories on the disk.

MOVIES
	KUWAIT -> directory containing 325 images, 961w x 889h
	KUWAIT.TXT

	OCEAN -> directory containing 100 images, 1200w x 500h
	OCEAN.TXT

	TURB -> directory containing 3 subdirectories ...
		TURB1 -> directory containing 36 images, 462w x 462h
		TURB2 -> directory containing 41 images, 462w x 462h
		TURB3 -> directory containing 31 images, 462w x 462h
		TURB4 -> directory containing 72 images, 462w x 462h
	TURB.TXT
	
SOFTWARE
	COMPRES -> directory containing 3 subdirectories and a README.TXT file ...
		BIN -> directory containing executables for Sun4
		SRC -> directory containing C source code for all programs in the suite
		XFILES -> directory containing support files for compression

	IMGMAGIC -> directory containing a compressed tar file with the ImageMagick
				suite of image viewing and manipulation X-Window-based programs

	MAC -> directory containing an image viewing program for the Mac

	MEDVIEW -> directory containing 2 subdirectories and a NeXT application ...
		CUSTOM -> directory containing information and code for custom
				  extensions to MediaView
		DOCS -> directory containing 12 example MediaView documents

	SLATEC -> directory containing  4 files with information and source code
			  for the SLATEC library.
			  
STILLS
	FRACTURE -> directory containing  10 images, 1024w x 1024h
	FRACTURE.TXT
	
	MANTLE.TIF 1 image, 848w x 828h
	MANTLE.TXT
	
	MAT_MOD -> directory containing 2 subdirectories
		TXY_CRAK -> directory containing 6 images, 800w x 800h
		V_CRAK -> directory containing 6 images, 800w x 800h
	
	OCEAN -> directory containing 4 images, 1024w x 1024h
	
		


Editor:
	R. L. Phillips
	P. O. Box 1663  MS B255
	Los Alamos National Laboratory
	Los Alamos, NM 87545