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Newsgroups: comp.graphics,comp.answers,news.answers Path: bloom-beacon.mit.edu!hookup!news.moneng.mei.com!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!Munich.Germany.EU.net!ecrc!news.forth.gr!news.ntua.gr!nfotis From: nfotis@theseas.ntua.gr (Nick C. Fotis) Subject: (3 Oct 94) Computer Graphics Resource Listing : BIWEEKLY [part 5/6] Message-ID: <Cx3xII.82t@theseas.ntua.gr> Followup-To: poster Lines: 1262 Sender: nfotis@theseas.ntua.gr (Nick C. Fotis) Reply-To: nfotis@theseas.ntua.gr (Nick (Nikolaos) Fotis) Organization: National Technical University of Athens, Greece Date: Mon, 3 Oct 1994 17:20:32 GMT Approved: news-answers-request@MIT.Edu Xref: bloom-beacon.mit.edu comp.graphics:31638 comp.answers:7601 news.answers:26805 Archive-name: graphics/resources-list/part5 Last-modified: 1994/10/03 Computer Graphics Resource Listing : BIWEEKLY POSTING [ PART 5/6 ] ===================================================== Last Change : 3 Octomber 1994 Subject: 16. 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 ------------- From: Jeremy Walton <jeremyw@nag.co.uk> IRIS Explorer is an application creation system developed by Silicon Graphics that provides visualisation and analysis functionality for computational scientists, engineers and other scientists. The IRIS Explorer GUI allows users to build custom applications without having to write any, or a minimal amount of, traditional code. Also, existing code can be easily integrated into the IRIS Explorer environment. Platforms: SGI, Cray, SPARC, DEC, IBM, HP. The SPARC ports have been done by DuPont Pixel and by Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG) Ltd; NAG are also porting IRIS Explorer to IBM RS/6000, HP 9000 series 700 and DEC Alpha. Availability: Available now on SGI, Cray and SPARC. Other versions to be announced soon. Contact: IRIS Explorer Center for details of availability and distribution information, and for user support and other technical enquiries: IRIS Explorer Center (Europe) PO Box 50 OXFORD OX2 8JU UK Tel : +44 (0)865 516377 Fax : +44 (0)865 516388 e-mail : helpdesk@iec.co.uk IRIS Explorer Center (North America) 1400 Opus Place, Suite 200 Downers Grove, IL 60515-5702 USA Tel : +1 708 971 2367 Fax : +1 708 971 2706 e-mail : infodesk@nag.com More information: The IRIS Explorer Center runs a Gopher server, containing technical information and advice, technical papers and User Group details: Name = IRIS Explorer Center Bulletin Board Type = 1 Path = 1/visual/IE/iecbb Host = nags2.nag.co.uk [192.156.217.7] Port = 70 This service is also available via World Wide Web: http://nags2.nag.co.uk/Welcome_IEC.html The explorer ftp site is ftp.epcc.ed.ac.uk which is housed at Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre. The administrator is Gordon Cameron. This archive is mirrored in the USA by swedishchef.lerc.nasa.gov, administered by Jeff Hanson. Newsgroups: comp.graphics.explorer, comp.sys.sgi.graphics 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 (changed spelling!) --- 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 5.0 will be available towards the beginning of the last quarter '94 and will include support for multi-dimensional image processing, 3D volume slicing and viewing, and 3D ROI entry. WiT runs on Sun SPARCs (SunOS 4.X, Solaris 2.3), Linux, and Windows 3.1/NT. It also supports Datacube MV-200 and Digicolor hardware, allowing you to run your graphs in real-time (available from Datacube under the product name WiTFlow) 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. There's an FTP'able demo for SPARCs under sunsite.unc.edu /pub/sun-info/catalyst/logical-vision Pricing: WiT for Sparc, one yr. free upgrades, 30 days technical support....................$5000 US Entry level pricing now at $1000 US, with upgrade to the full system for $4000 US more. WiT for Windows 3.1/NT: starts at US $1800.00. They recommend the Watcom C 10.0 32-bit compiler to support code development. 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 e-mail: Terry Arden <poon@ee.ubc.ca> #VIS-AD ------ +[ Former VIS-5D ] + + A system for interactively visualizing and steering scientific computations. + This system provides: + + * An interactive computational environment combining a flexible + interpreted language with linkages to Fortran and C. + + * A data model that lets users design data types appropriate + to their applications. + + * A novel and flexible way to visualize computations. + + VIS-AD includes a large number of example programs and data sets + that demonstrate its flexibility. While it has been developed + primarily to meet the needs of environmental scientists, its + flexibility makes it useful to any scientists who develop + algorithms or use computers to analyze data. + + Version 1.1 adds support for a greater variety of map projections + than were available under Version 1.0, and support for user-defined + map projections (in VIS-AD these are called sample sets and are + finite samplings of 1-D, 2-D or 3-D real spaces). + + Version 1.1 of VIS-AD runs on Silicon Graphics workstation. + Later versions will be ported to other vendors' workstations. + + You can get it with: ftp iris.ssec.wisc.edu (or ftp 144.92.108.63), then + ftp> cd pub/visad + ftp> ascii + ftp> get README + ftp> binary + ftp> get visad.1.1.tar.Z + ftp> bye Contact: + Bill Hibbard (whibbard@macc.wisc.edu) + Brian Paul (brianp@ssec.wisc.edu) + Space Science and Engineering Center + University of Wisconsin - Madison + 1225 W. Dayton St. + Madison, WI 53706 IBM DATAexplorer ---------------- Platforms : IBM Risc System 6000, IBM POWER Visualization Server (SIMD mesh 32 i860s, 40 MHz), SGI, HP, Sun Contact: Keith Sams Data Explorer Product Marketing E-mail: ksams@vnet.ibm.com or KSAMS AT DALVMIC1 214-280-1412 To order, call: 1-800-IBM-CALL : Commercial customers 1-800-333-6705 : Federal customers Repository: Contributed modules, macros, data sets and other information Anonymous ftp - ftp info.tc.cornell.edu (cd /pub/vis/Data.Explorer) Gopher - telnet info.tc.cornell.edu (login as user info) Mailing-list at data-exp@watson.ibm.com Cost: $5900 node locked license - A free trial version is available (contact Keith Sams) - Discounts are available as follows: IBM Higher Education Software Consortium Single user educational discount GSA contract GS00K92AGS5541, Option YR 1 Volume discounts Wavefront --------- Data Visualizer, Personal Visualizer, Advanced Visualizer. Platforms: SGI, SUN, IBM RS6000, HP DEC is not supported anymore 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 ------------------------------ Flow Analysis Software Toolkit (FAST) ------------------------------------- [ Call COSMIC, NASA's software ditribution center for details ] + You can get information from the NASA via the World Wide Web: +http://www.nas.nasa.gov/FAST/fast.html OVERVIEW FAST is currently under development by members of the Numerical Aerodynamics Simulation (NAS) Division at NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA 94035-1000. It is a software environment for analyzing 3D data. FAST consists of a collection of separate programs (modules) that run simultaneously and allow the user to examine the results of numerical simulations by loading data files, performing calculations on the data, visualizing the results of these calculations, and constructing scenes of 3D graphical objects that may be animated and recorded. The approach used in FAST is to create an environment of compatable, minimally overlapping modules, each with its own purpose and functionality, but with the ability to share its data with the other modules. All of the modules in the FAST environment have a consistent, easy-to-use, highly interactive user interface (using the Panel Library developed at Ames). FAST is flexible and extensible: the environment can be custom configured and new modules can be developed and added to it. Note that FAST is not a visual programming environment, it is a multi-processed visualization and animation tool. EXISTING MODULES The following modules are available in this version of FAST: HUB Central ipc and shared memory manager starts modules. VIEWER Viewing process for the FAST environment. FILE IO Loads grid, solution, function. ARCGRAPH Draws ARCGraph graphics metafiles. FILE IO Loads grid, solution, function. ARCGRAPH Draws ARCGraph graphics metafiles. CALCULATOR CFD Calculator computes scalar and vector fields. SURFER Draws surfaces of a structured grid. SURFERU Draws surfaces of an unstructured grid. TRACER Computes partical traces through the structured or unstructured vector field. ISOLEV Draws xyz cutting plane and contour surfaces for a structured grid. ISOLEVU Draws xyz cutting plane and contour surfaces for a unstructured grid. TOPOLOGY Extracts critical points in vector field. SHOTET Draws selected tetrahedra of an unstructured grid. PLOTTER Plots xy graphs of scalar functions. TITLER Text title editor for adding titles to graphics. AUDIO Produces sound from scalar data. IMAGER Draws raster files (image format). HOW TO GET FAST GENERAL USERS Contact COSMIC phone (706) 542-3265 fax (706) 542-4807 email service@cossack.cosmic.uga.edu COST: User Guide...................... $72 Source code: For commercial customers........ $2000 For educational institutions.... $ 200 For FAST commercial Beta sites.. $ 500 For NASA sites.................. $ 0 NASA sites: Place orders through your NASA contract monitor (for a contractor) or through your local Technology Utilization Office (for NASA employees). COSMIC does not charge for programs and documentation used exclusively in support of a NASA project. FAST and derivative products may not be distributed internationally.* Institutions receiving FAST at the educational price must agree not to distribute the program beyond their site. This restriction does not apply if users pay the commercial price for the code. NUMERICAL AERODYNAMIC SIMULATION (NAS) SYSTEM USERS See nasinfo or send email to fast@nas.nasa.gov FAST USER GROUP To join the FAST user group and receive tips and important announcements about FAST, send your email address to: fast-users-request@nas.nasa.gov SUPPORT Email questions, comments and suggestions to: fast@nas.nasa.gov ______________________________________________________________________________ *A waiver may be granted for US institutions or US companies performing work outside the US on a US Gov't contract. Send written request to NASA HQTRS (Attn: Ray Rose, Technology Transfer Control, Office of Aeronautics) from your Gov't Contract Officer Representative and from the Program Manager or the Technical Monitors of the Gov't project. 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 ] IDL - PV-WAVE ------------- The PV-WAVE family of products uses powerful visual and numerical analysis techniques to reduce large, complex data sets into easily interpreted visual plots and displays; for faster more effective decision making. PV-WAVE (Workstation Analysis and Visualization Environment) is the industry leading 4GL for Visual Data Analysis (VDA). PV-WAVE integrates powerful plotting and charting, volume visualization, signal and image processing, advanced numerical and statistical analysis, flexible data input and output, and much more, all in an efficient and integrated software system. PV-WAVE makes it easy to find key trends and relationships in your data by allowing you to distill raw data into meaningful information quickly. Products: PV-WAVE Advantage - PV-WAVE Command Language with additional commands to access the IMSL C/Math and C/Stat libraries directly PV-WAVE Command Language - the basic 4GL for VDA PV-WAVE Point & Click - PV-WAVE functionality accessed via a Graphical User Interface (GUI) Modules: NOTE: All modules are compatible with PV-WAVE Advantage and PV-WAVE Command Language. PV-WAVE:GTGRID - gridding capabilities beyond the basic products PV-WAVE:Maple - ability to interact with a Maple (symbolic mathematics) session PV-WAVE:Database Connection - read data directly from Sybase or Oracle databases Environments: Sun (SunOS and Solaris), HP700, SGI, IBM RS6000, DEC (OpenVMS VAX, OpenVMS AXP, OSF/1 AXP and ULTRIX), Windows NT (Intel, Mips, DEC AlphaPC), Windows v3.1 See also: comp.lang.idl-pvwave Contact: Visual Numerics, Inc. 6230 Lookout Road Boulder, CO 80301 (303) 530-9000 (phone) (303) 530-9329 (FAX) EnSight ------- EnSight 5 is in use world-wide by engineers requiring a full-featured finite element postprocessing system. EnSight interfaces with all major commercial analysis packages. EnSight is a distributed postprocessor: a server handles I/O and compute intensive activities and a client handles all user-interface interaction and graphic rendering. The tasks can reside on either the same workstation or two separate systems. CEI provides a unique licensing policy for EnSight. Only the server portion is licensed - customers are free to copy the client. The needs of multiple users can therefore be met with a single license. Platforms: Server: SGI, HP, DEC Alpha, IBM, Sun, Cray, Convex Client: SGI, HP, DEC Alpha, IBM, Sun Availability: Server: Available now on all listed platforms Client: Available now on SGI, HP, DEC Alpha Available Q2 1994 on IBM and Sun Contact: Tom Palmer Computational Engineering International, Inc. P.O. Box 14306 Research Triangle Park, NC 27709 (919) 481-4301 (919) 481-4306 (fax) ensight@ceintl.com -or- palmer@ceintl.com Visual3 ------- Visual3 is a visualization system that provides a programmer level interface instead of a canned application. Brief description and availability is below. Visual3 runs on Stellar, DEC stations, IBM RS/6000, HP and SGI. (From the manual): VISUAL3 is an interactive graphics environment for the visualization of three-dimensional, structured and/or unstructured data. This volumetric data may be steady or time varying. VISUAL3 deals with three different types of surfaces. The first category is `domain' surfaces. These are surfaces which are defined by the application program which initializes VISUAL3, and they typically correspond to the surfaces which bound the computational domain. A subset of this first class, are `mapped domain' surfaces, for which there is a mapping from points on the surface to an $(x',y')$ coordinate system, which allows plotting of surface quantities in a 2D setting. The second category is `dynamic' surfaces. These are surfaces whose orientation and position, relative to the computational domain, can be changed interactively by the user. Although there are several types of dynamic surface, only one dynamic surface can exist at one time. Also, a dynamic surface cannot be activated when a mapped domain surface is being plotted in the 2D window. The third category is `static' surfaces. These are surfaces which at one time were `dynamic', but then were `frozen' and transferred into a database, along with the domain surfaces. These static surfaces are then treated in almost the same way as the unmapped domain surfaces. NOTE: Any `static' surface in a `grid unsteady' application deforms with the grid movement. The surface is associated with the cells and not physical space. Therefore, for planar cuts, the data is not clipped to the 2D window size when the surface was saved. Author: Bob Haimes email: haimes@orville.mit.edu MIT 37-467 FAX: (617) 253-0823 77 Mass Ave Tel: (617) 253-7518 Cambridge, Ma 02139 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: george.lbl.gov [128.3.196.93] : 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> ======================================================================== Subject: 17. Molecular visualization stuff ================================= IMPORTANT NOTE: I'M EXPECTING TO REMOVE THIS PART AND LET ANOTHER ONE TAKE IT OVER!!!! From: Didier Vandervecken <vdvk@netcom.com> The FAQ is available on the Computational Chemistry List Server: 1) by anonymous FTP ftp infomeister.osc.edu (or ftp 128.146.36.5) Name: anonymous Password: your_e-mail_address (please !) ftp> cd pub/chemistry/documents ftp> get README ftp> get molecular_graphics_packages ftp> quit 2) by mail send a message to MAILSERV@osc.edu the content of the mail would be : select chemistry get documents/molecular_graphics_packages quit 3) by gopher (This will be available soon..., it is still undergoing testing). The archives are located at infomeister.osc.edu on port 73. So you can access them with a command gopher infomeister 73 or similar (depending on your system). +Envision +-------- + Envision is an interactive system for the management and visualization + of large scientific data sets. It runs on UNIX workstations under + X/Motif, manages data stored in netCDF and HDF files, and does + visualization using NCSA Collage, NCSA XDataSlice, and IDL. + + Envision is public domain software and is available by anonymous FTP. + The primary ftp site for Envision is vista.atmos.uiuc.edu in + pub/envision. A secondary FTP site is csrp.tamu.edu. Included in the + release are binaries for IBM RS6000, HP, Sun, and SGI, as well as + source and make files. Complete documentation, sample data, and + binaries to generate Envision project files for the sample data are + provided. If you get Envision, we request that you report any bugs + you find to envision@vista.atmos.uiuc.edu. + + The Envision Home Page has URL: + http://www.atmos.uiuc.edu/envision/envision.html + + The Envision Home Page has: + (1) connections to text and graphics about the Envision + project and what the software does. + (2) links to hypermedia versions of recent Envision papers and + a hypermedia presentation on Envision made at the American + Meteorological Society / Interactive Information and Processing + Systems meeting, Nashville, Jan. 1994. + (3) links to hypermedia pages for other software packages used + with Envision including HDF, netCDF, Collage, XDataSlice, and IDL. + (4) a connection to the new hypertext Envision User's Guide -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 17. 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 ftp.scripps.edu [137.131.168.6], 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@bioeng.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. MSCI has changed its distribution policy, the current version is now available to users outside the USA and it no longer contains a built-in expiration date. However, only binary versions for Decstation, SGI Iris-4D, IBM RS/6000, Sun SPARCstation and Sun-3 are available. 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). Runs on Silicon Graphics Workstations only. 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 ) RasMol/RasWin ------------- The source code is public domain and freely distributable provided that the original author is suitably acknowledged. It's written and maintained by Roger Sayle, at The Biocomputing Research Unit, University of Edinburgh, UK (rasmol@dcs.ed.ac.uk, or rasmol@ggr.co.uk). RasMol is the version for UNIX workstations under the X Window System and RasWin is the version for MS Windows version 3.1. RasMol reads in molecular co-ordinate files in a number of formats and interactively displays the molecule on the screen in a variety of colour schemes and representations. Currently supported input file formats include Brookhaven Protein Databank (PDB), Tripos' Alchemy and Sybyl Mol2 formats, Molecular Design Limited's (MDL) Mol file format, Minnesota Supercomputer Center's (MSC) XMol XYZ format and CHARMm format files. If connectivity information and/or secondary structure information is not contained in the file this is calculated automatically. The loaded molecule may be shown as wireframe, cylinder (drieding) stick bonds, alpha-carbon trace, spacefilling (CPK) spheres, macromolecular ribbons (either smooth shaded solid ribbons or parallel strands), hydrogen bonding and dot surface. Different parts of the molecule may be displayed and coloured independently of the rest of the molecule or shown in different representations simultaneously. The spacefilling spheres can even be shadowed. The displayed molecule may be rotated, translated, zoomed, z-clipped (slabbed) interactively using either the mouse, the scroll bars, the command line or an attached dials box. RasMol can read a prepared list of commands from a `script' file (or via interprocess communication) to allow a given image or viewpoint to be restored quickly. RasMol can also be used to create script files containing the commands required to regenerate the current image. Finally the rendered image may be written out in a variety of formats including both raster and vector PostScript, GIF, PPM, BMP, Sun rasterfile or as a MolScript input script. RasMol will run on a wide range of architectures and systems including sun3, sun4, sun386i, SGI, DEC, HP and E&S workstations, IBM RS/6000, Cray, Sequent, DEC Alpha (OSF/1, OpenVMS and Windows NT), VAX VMS (under DEC Windows), IBM RS/6000, HP and IBM PC (under Microsoft Windows, Windows NT, OS/2, Linux, BSD386 and *BSD). Support for an Apple Machintosh version is planned for October '94. UNIX and VMS versions require an 8bit, 24bit or 32bit X Windows frame buffer (X11R4 or later). The X Windows version of RasMol provides optional support for a hardware dials box and accelerated shared memory rendering (via the XInput and MIT-SHM extensions) if available. The complete source code and user documentation may be obtained by anonymous FTP from ftp.dcs.ed.ac.uk [129.215.160.5] in the directory /pub/rasmol. The source code, documentation and Microsoft Windows executables are stored in several files appropriate for the receiving operating system. Please read the "README" file in the distribution directory. UNIX and VAX systems should retreive either RasMol2.tar.Z, RasMol2.tar.gz or rasmol2.zip. Microsoft Windows users should retrieve RasWin.zip and optionally the Visual Basic package RasMenu.zip both of which contain executable .EXE files. All these files include source code, on-line help, user manual and reference card. Please remember to use "binary" mode when transferring these files between systems. Check that the file size is the same before and after transfer. MolViewer --------- From: Steve Ludtke <steve@ion.rice.edu> It is a molecule viewing App for machines running NeXTStep. It permits interactive rotation and manipulation (bond lengths, angles, and dihedrals) of molecules of arbitrary size (depends on your memory). Some special features are included for protein analysis. Proteins can be generated from scratch if the program is given an amino acid sequence and secondary structure. A variety of animations are supported. Animations and printing are generated by NeXT's Photorealistic Renderman daemon. File formats supported (to varying degrees) include: PDB, Alchemy, HIN (hyperchem), and MolViewer's own file format. It is freeware. Full source and binaries can be obtained from ion.rice.edu, sonata.cc.purdue.edu and several other popular NeXT sites. The current version is 0.91. [ I saw it on comp.sys.amiga.applications - added some formatting. For the people who wonder - Aminet is an FTP sites organization that keeps huge amounts of stuff for the Commodore Amiga ] From: bss104@bangor.ac.uk ( Chris Graham) ========================= Molec 3D -------- This is a non-commerical package. It models both frame work structures (which can be rotated and transformed) and also ball and stick models. The ball and stick pictures are generated from snapshots of the framework model. Each ball and stick snapshot takes only about 10-15secs to render even on my trusty 1 meg a500. To construct a model, you need to write a data file which contains the xyz coordinates of each atom. The package is very user friendly and the manual is adequate. Oh yes, also has a built in facility for reading your data files back to you. Available for ftp from your local aminet site - Fish disk 482 MoG --- This is a commerical package. It's available from SciTech Software in the U.K. The full address and price, along with a more detailed description of the package are in a comp.sys.reviews.amiga article written by Augustus Fountain III (he also provides a iff file of morphine which was created on MoG). There is also a demo version floating about as well. I found a copy in the hensa micros gopher server, lancs, U.K. This is a crippled version which I was unable to get to do anything other thud up. More iff files of dna and others are included. Chemesthetics ------------- Again non-commerical. And again you can find this on Aminet on fish disk 777 (Chemesthetics.lha). This a rather nice package as well as you build carlotte projections (is that spelt right?). Works on the same principle as Molec3D but needs the ionic radius of each atom as well. Unlike the Molec3D package you can actually enter data in the actual package rather than having to resort to a text editor. It does however have one drawback the rendering times are fairly long on my amiga at least - about 3 hours for 250 atoms. Which I suppose isn't too bad all things considered. cpk --- Bit of a misnomer this one. Only runs on an aga amigas, so I haven't had a chance to try it out. Judging by the descriptions in the readme file and emails I've received this sounds excellent. Arexx support. Again you can get this from Aminet (what we do without internet file servers eh - probably buy a CD-ROM I suppose). ----- [ I would also suggest looking at least in SGI's Applications Directory. It contains many more packages - nfotis ] =========================================================================== End of Part 5 of the Resource Listing -- Nick (Nikolaos) Fotis National Technical Univ. of Athens, Greece HOME: 16 Esperidon St., InterNet : nfotis@theseas.ntua.gr Halandri, GR - 152 32 UUCP: pythia!theseas!nfotis Athens, GREECE FAX: (+30 1) 77 84 578