(31 Jul 94) Computer Graphics Resource Listing : BIWEEKLY [part 3/4]
Nick C. Fotis
Last-modified: 1994/31/07
Computer Graphics Resource Listing : BIWEEKLY POSTING [ PART 3/4 ]
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Last Change : 31 July 1994
10. Scene generators/geographical data/Maps/Data files
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DEMs (Digital Elevation Models)
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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....@Xerox.Com
[ Check also on
ncgia.ucsb.edu (128.111.254.105), /pub/dems
glis.cr.usgs.gov (152.61.192.54) (telnet.. login as guest)
resdgs1.er.usgs.gov (130.11.52.55) (lots of DEM files in /DEM)
-- 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
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Public Domain:
Many people have written fractal landscape generators. for example
for the Mac some of these generators were written by
pdbo...@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz (Paul D. Bourke).
Many of the programs are available from the FTP sites and mail
archive servers. Check with Archie (a well known example is Fractint -
besides fractal images, it generates height fields)
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
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[ 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 SEPFTP.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 sepftp.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 <jo...@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
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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 il...@ncar.ucar.edu.
UNC data tapes with voxel data
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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.
(sof...@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
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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: req...@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.
GOES images
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From: st...@NETSYS.COM (Steve Eigsti)
We have the directories reorganized and the ftp is back up for digital
GOES images. These are received with the SignaLink 200 Weather Receiver,
which can now be configured for GOES, Meteosat, or GMS, and in the near
future a TIROS version will be available.
The images are in Sun rasterfile format. I changed the titles slightly
so we could accomodate multiple sectors of the same resolution. The
picture names are in a 8.3 DOS style format: the first 3 numbers are
the day (000 to 365), the next 4 numbers are GMT, followed by i for
infrared or v for visible. The extension has 2 letters of the sector
name (e.g. 'CA' for California, etc.) and the last number is supposed to
be the km resolution of each pixel; 0 means greater than 8 km (the visible
full disk is 16 km/pixel) so we can keep the name to 8.3 size.
The files with .001 are the latest raw data files and won't mean that
much; the 'oa_table.dat' is orbit and attitude data from GOES. The
IR images (10 bits raw data) are converted to the traditional 'ZA' curve
and are 8 bits. Visible images are 6 bits -- we left justify and add
64 to brighten up a bit.
As in the past, get the images with anonymous ftp to 'ftp.netsys.com'
and they are in the /images directory. The /west directory has info
about our systems, along with images of hurricanes Andrew (fl... files)
and a 1 km shot of Iniki as it went across the island of Kauai.
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...@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
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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 ]
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11. 3D scanners - Digitized 3D Data
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+Cyberware
+---------
+ Cyberware manufactures a variety of color 3d scanners. The scanners
+ are used to scan both live subjects and inanimate objects. Your whole
+ body, face or fingerprint can be scanned in seconds. Machine parts,
+ sculpture, implants, models and other objects are easily scanned as well.
+ Most scanners also generate a color texture map.
+
+ The CG models are provided in many popular formats, both polygonal and
+ NURBS based. Software tools allow many scans to be combined, reduced
+ in complexity, and converted for efficient modeling in your favorite
+ animation, modeling and CAD software. Rapid prototyping is supported.
+
+ Several service bureaus, including one at the factory in Monterey,
+ offer scanning services. They can scan models and faces for you.
+
+ Distributors and support worldwide. Contact for more information:
+
+ Cyberware
+ 8 Harris Court #3D
+ Monterey, California 93940
+ U.S.A.
+
+ Phone: +1-408-373-1441
+ Fax: +1-408-373-3582
+ E-Mail: dad...@netcom.com
+
+ SGI demo software and datasets available via anonymous ftp from:
+ taurus.cs.nps.navy.mil [131.120.1.13] in pub/dabro/cyberware_demo.tar.Z
Polhemus
--------
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.
Viewpoint
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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
Perceptron
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They're marketing a scanning laser radar, which raster scans an area and
returns both intensity and range data for each point.
Contact:
Perceptron
23855 Research Drive
Farmington Hills, MI 48335
U.S.
Phone: (313) 478-7710
FAX: (313) 478-7059
Immersion
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+ They make the Immersion Personal Digitizer. The company just went into an
+ agreement with Mira Imaging Inc. to make a bundle with the HyperSpace
+ digitizing software. The software allows you to edit points, edges, and
+ surfaces and exports files in standard file formats including DXF,
+ Wavefront, Symbolics, Softimage, Alias, Super 3D, and Swivel 3D.
+ Modeling tools supported include reflection, extrusion, surfaces of
+ rotation, surfaces patches, auto-smoothing, auto-welding of vertices, and
+ auto-lofting of surfaces. Models can be created as vertices, lines,
+ polygons, and splines.
# Features of the Personal Digitizer:
- pen-sized stylus is easy to manipulate
- 6 degree of freedom system reports both POSITION and ORIENTATION of stylus
- System can be used as high resolution digitizer or 3D Mouse
- Includes Foot Pedal for Hands Free Data Entry
- Self Calibrating system is easy to use: just turn it on and Digitize
- Objects being digitized can rest on the large base provided, eliminating
the need for complicated calibration procedures.
- Noise Free: digital sensors provide noise free data
- Accuracy: 0.035" (0.89 mm)
- Resolution: 3600 points per square inch
- Interface: Standard RS232 (serial), speeds up to 115.2kbps
Contact:
Immersion Corp.
imme...@starconn.com P.O. Box 8669
(415) 960-6882 Palo Alto, CA 94309-8669
(415) 960-6977 (FAX)
PhotoModeler
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[ Not exactly a 3D digitizer, but this photographic technology could serve
similar needs -- nfotis ]
This package does 3D data reconstruction from various photographic sources.
It runs under Microsoft Windows.
To produce a 3D model with PhotoModeler involves six steps:
1) plan a modeling project,
2) take the photographs,
3) mark features on the photos,
4) cross-reference these marks,
5) generate a 3D model, and
6) export the model as a DXF file.
All these step can take from 10 minutes (a small six sided box captured with
a monochrome low resolution digital camera and measured on a 33Mhz 486 class
machine), to (typical) 10 hours (to measure and model a detailed historic
school house with eight high resolution photographs and 400 primitives),
plus the time to process and scan the film.
Accuracy varies with many factors, but [from the text they sent me] sounds
reasonably good.
You're advised to contact the company for much more information:
Eos Systems Inc.
2040 West 12th Ave.
Vancouver, B.C., Canada V6J 2G2
Tel: (604) 732-6658
Fax: (604) 732-4716
Internet: in...@eosvcr.wimsey.com
==================================================
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: D2...@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
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12. Background imagery/textures/datafiles
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First, check in the FTP places that are mentioned in the FAQ or in the FTP
list above.
24-bit scanning:
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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:
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Mannicin Sceptre
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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
ESSENCE
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ESSENCE is a library of 65 (sixty-five) new algorithmic 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.
[ They have put out a second volume of procedural textures ]
For more info contact:
Essence Info
Apex Software Publishing
405 El Camino Real Suite 121
Menlo Park CA 94025 USA
TEXTURE CITY
------------
Texture City publishes CD-ROM and disk-based collections of 24 bit,
real world scanned images of a variety of natural textures, all of which are
scanned at a resolution of 752x480. Three sets of textures are available,
two on Amiga disks in JPEG format, and one on CD-ROM in a variety of file
formats.
"PRO-60 #1" and "PRO-60 #2" are two separate collections of 60 images each,
on Amgia disks. Images are 24 bit color, 752x480 resolution and are in JPEG
format. An image browser, viewer and decompressor is included. All images
are of real world textures, and are not algorithmically generated. Images
come in 13 categories including animal skin, scenic, quarry marble, metals,
hand blown glass, special effects, and many more.
"PRO-100 #1" is a CD-ROM for use with IBM-PC, Macintosh, Amiga, and SGI
systems. The CD-ROM contains 100 images, each one in 24 bit color at 752x480
resolution, each one in four file formats: Targa, TIFF, PCX, and IFF-24.
Images are real-world textures, including metal, stone, plants, space, wood,
textile, marble, special effects, and much more.
Pricing is as follows:
PRO-60 #1 and #2 on Amiga disk: $99.95 each
PRO-100 #1 on CD-ROM: $199.95
There is a special price for INTERNET users: PRO-100 #1 CD-ROM for $100.00.
All three of the above collections are available direct by mail from the
address and telephone number shown below.
Texture City
3203 Overland Ave. # 6157
Los Angeles, CA 90034
(310) 836-9224
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13. 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
(er...@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 ]
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14. 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 <to...@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.Mar...@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
model3:
The triangles' model.
This model is stored in several files, each defining portions of the model.
Greg Henderson (hen...@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 (j...@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 (to...@nova.stanford.edu) or my supervisor
Scott Williams (sc...@star5.stanford.edu) if you want a copy.
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15. Image annotation software - Paint Programs
==============================================
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
Xpaint
------
From: kob...@netcom.com (David Koblas)
XPaint is a color image editing tool which features most standard paint
program options. It allows for the editing of multiple images simultaneously
and supports various formats, including PPM, XBM, TIFF, etc.
Available at:
export.lcs.mit.edu as contrib/xpaint-?.?.0.tar.Z
netcom.com as pub/koblas/xpaint-?.?.0.tar.Z
ezd
---
A small bitmap collaging utility. It does things like: put image 1 at x,y,
put image 2 at x2,y2, and have image 2 overlayed on image 1, etc.
The commands to do the previous example are: (bitmap 10 10 "image1.xbm"),
(bitmap 11 11 "image2.xbm").
Available on gatekeeper.dec.com: pub/DEC/ezd
========================================================================
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-...@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 <jer...@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 : help...@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 : info...@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
a...@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 (po...@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 <po...@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 (whib...@vms.macc.wisc.edu)
Brian Paul (bp...@vms.macc.wisc.edu)
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: ks...@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...@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 (mi...@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 <pel...@nas.nasa.gov> for
distribution information). In general, these codes are for US
citizens only :-(
[ Call COSMIC, NASA's software ditribution center for details ]
+Flow Analysis Software Toolkit (FAST)
+-------------------------------------
+
+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 ser...@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 fa...@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-user...@nas.nasa.gov
+
+SUPPORT
+
+ Email questions, comments and suggestions to: fa...@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
scd...@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: in...@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)
+ ens...@ceintl.com -or- pal...@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: hai...@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 (kra...@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, (wejoh...@lbl.gov, ...ucbvax!csam.lbl.gov!johnston)
or
David Robertson (dwrob...@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
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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 : lee...@iti.gov.sg
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GVLware Distribution:
Bob - An interactive volume renderer for the SGI
Raz - A disk based movie player for the SGI
Icol - Motif color editor
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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
gvl...@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
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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 <r...@isgtec.com>
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17. Molecular visualization stuff
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IMPORTANT NOTE: I'M EXPECTING TO REMOVE THIS PART AND LET ANOTHER ONE
TAKE IT OVER!!!!
From: Didier Vandervecken <vd...@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 MAIL...@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).
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17. Molecular visualization stuff
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[ Based on a list from cri...@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
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(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
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Runs on SGI machines. Call Terry Lybrand <lyb...@bioeng.washington.edu>
XtalView
--------
It is a crystallography package that does visualize molecules and much more.
It uses the XView toolkit.
Call Duncan McRee <d...@scripps.edu>
lan...@hal.physics.wayne.edu:
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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.
icsg...@caesar.cs.montana.edu:
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
dit...@itnsg1.cineca.it:
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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
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Written by David Nedde. Call da...@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
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from BIOSYM Technologies Inc.
SCARECROW
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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.La...@csc.fi or laak...@csc.fi>
MULTI
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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
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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 (ras...@dcs.ed.ac.uk, or ras...@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 <st...@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: bss...@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).
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[ I would also suggest looking at least in SGI's Applications Directory.
It contains many more packages - nfotis ]
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