From tusol.cs.trinity.edu!swrinde!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!Munich.Germany.EU.net!ecrc!news.forth.gr!news.ntua.gr!nfotis Thu Oct 6 14:16:00 1994 Newsgroups: comp.graphics,comp.answers,news.answers Path: tusol.cs.trinity.edu!swrinde!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 1/6] Message-ID: Followup-To: poster Lines: 1445 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 17:19:03 GMT Approved: news-answers-request@MIT.Edu Xref: tusol.cs.trinity.edu comp.graphics:3089 comp.answers:1002 news.answers:3320 Archive-name: graphics/resources-list/part1 Last-modified: 1994/10/03 Computer Graphics Resource Listing : BIWEEKLY POSTING [ PART 1/6 ] ===================================================== Last Change : 3 Octomber 1994 Many FAQs, including this Listing, are available on the archive site rtfm.mit.edu [18.181.0.24] in the directory pub/usenet/news.answers. The name under which a FAQ is archived appears in the Archive-name line at the top of the article. #This FAQ is archived as graphics/resources-list/part[1-6] There's a mail server on that machine. You send a e-mail message to mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu containing the keyword "help" (without quotes!) in the message body. You can see in many other places for this Listing. See the item: 0. Places to find the Resource Listing for more information. Items Changed: -------------- [ Still playing catchup with my mailbox - now it's 700 messages than 2400+ (gulp! and I was missing only a month...) ] [ Re-formatted the Subject: lines, in order to be easier to auto-convert to HTML from the OSU people ] [ Re-split the Listing into 6 parts, because some parts were getting really big ] 3. Computer graphics FTP site list, by Eric Haines 8. Plotting packages 10. Scene generators/geographical data/Maps/Data files 11. 3D scanners - Digitized 3D Data. 16. Scientific visualization stuff -------------- Lines which got changed, have the `#' character in front of them. Added lines are prepended with a `+' Removed lines are just removed. Use 'diff' to locate these changes. ======================================================================== This text is (C)Copyright 1992, 1993, 1994 of Nikolaos C. Fotis. You can copy freely this file, provided you keep this copyright notice intact. Compiled by Nikolaos (Nick) C. Fotis, e-mail: nfotis@theseas.ntua.gr Please contact me for updates,corrections, etc. Disclaimer: I do not guarantee the accuracy of this document. Use it at your own risk. ======================================================================== This is mainly a guide for computer graphics software. I would suggest reading the Comp. Graphics FAQ for image analysis stuff. It's entitled: (date) comp.graphics Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) John T. Grieggs is the poster of the official comp.graphics FAQ I have included my comments within braces '[' and ']'. Nikolaos Fotis ======================================================================== Contents of the Resource Listing ================================ PART 1: ------- 0. Places to find the Resource Listing 1. ARCHIE 2. Notes 3. Computer graphics FTP site list, by Eric Haines PART 2: ------- 4. Mail servers and graphics-oriented BBSes 5. Ray-tracing/graphics-related mailing lists. 6. Scene description languages 7. Solids description formats 8. Plotting packages PART 3: ------- 9. Image analysis software - Image processing and display PART 4: ------- 10. Scene generators/geographical data/Maps/Data files 11. 3D scanners - Digitized 3D Data. 12. Background imagery/textures/datafiles 13. Introduction to rendering algorithms a. Ray tracing b. Z-buffer (depth-buffer) c. Others 14. Where can I find the geometric data for the: a. Teapot ? b. Space Shuttle ? 15. Image annotation software - Paint Programs PART 5: ------- 16. Scientific visualization stuff 17. Molecular visualization stuff PART 6: ------- 18. 3D graphics editors a. Public domain, free and shareware systems b. Commercial systems 19. GIS (Geographical Information Systems software) 20. User Interface Builders ---- (Please send me information!) Future additions: [Please send me updates/info!] ======================================================================== Subject: 0. Places to find the Resource Listing ====================================== This file is crossposted to comp.graphics, comp.answers and news.answers, so if you can't locate it in comp.graphics, you're advised to search in comp.answers or news.answers (The latter groups usually are archived in your site. Contact your sysadmin for more info). These 3 articles are posted to comp.graphics 3-4 times a month and are kept in many places (see below) -- The inria-graphlib mail server mirrors this posting (see under the Subject 4: Mail servers ) -- The Resource Listing is accesible through WAIS in the machine enuxva.eas.asu.edu (port 8000) under the name graphics-resources-list. It's got a digest-type line before every numbered item for purposes of indexing. -- Another place that monitors the Listing is the MaasInfo files. For more info contact Robert E. Maas -- Yet another place to search for FAQs in general is the SWITCH (Swiss Academic and Research Network) system in Switzerland: interactive: telnet nic.switch.ch [130.59.1.40], login as "info". Move to the info_service/Usenet/periodic-postings directory. Search in the 00index file by typing "/" and the word to look for. You may then just read the FAQ in the "faqs" directory, or decide to fetch it by one of the following methods. ftp: login to nic.switch.ch [130.59.1.40] as user anonymous and enter your internet-style address after being prompted for a password. cd info_service/Usenet/periodic-postings mail: send e-mail to RFC-822: archive-server@nic.switch.ch X.400: /S=archive-server/OU=nic/O=switch/PRMD=switch/ADMD=arcom/C=ch/ Enter 'help' in the bodypart to receive instructions. No information is required in the subject header line. ============================================================= Subject: 1. ARCHIE ========= The Archie is a service system to locate FTP places for requested files. It's appreciated that you will use Archie before asking help in the newsgroups. Archie servers: archie.au or 139.130.4.6 (Aussie/NZ) archie.funet.fi or 128.214.6.100 (Finland/Eur.) archie.th-darmstadt.de or 130.83.128.111 (GER.) cs.huji.ac.il or 132.65.6.5 (Israel) archie.kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp or 130.54.20.1 (JAPAN) archie.sogang.ac.kr or 163.239.1.11 (Korea) archie.ncu.edu.tw or telnet 140.115.19.24 (TWN) archie.doc.ic.ac.uk or 146.169.3.7 (UK/Ireland) archie.sura.net or 128.167.254.179 (USA [MD]) archie.unl.edu (password: archie1) (USA [NE]) archie.ans.net or 147.225.1.2 (USA [NY]) archie.rutgers.edu or 128.6.18.15 (USA [NJ]) archie.nz or 130.195.9.4 (New Zealand) Connect to Archie server with telnet and type "archie" as username. To get help type 'help'. You can get 'xarchie' or 'archie', which are clients that call Archie without the burden of a telnet session. 'Xarchie' is on the X11.R5 contrib tape, and 'archie' on comp.sources.misc, vol. 27. To get information on how to use Archie via e-mail, send mail with subject "help" to "archie" account at any of above sites. (Note to Janet/PSS users -- the United Kingdom archie site is accessible on the Janet host doc.ic.ac.uk [000005102000]. Connect to it and specify "archie" as the host name and "archie" as the username.) ========================================================================== 2. Notes ======== (Excerpted from the FAQ article) Please do *not* post or mail messages saying "I can't FTP, could someone mail this to me?" There are a number of automated mail servers that will send you things like this in response to a message. There are a number of sites that archive the Usenet sources newsgroups and make them available via an email query system. You send a message to an automated server saying something like "send comp.sources.unix/fbm", and a few hours or days later you get the file in the mail. ========================================================================== Subject: 3. Computer graphics FTP site list ================================== Computer graphics related FTP sites (and maintainers), 3 Oct. 1994 compiled by Eric Haines, erich@eye.com and Nick Fotis, nfotis@theseas.ntua.gr First are listed various computer graphics related resources, with a particular focus on 3D rendering and modelling. As this list grew out of the Ray Tracing News, I focus on this topic first. At the end are the FTP sites for all software and more. Here's the table of contents: Ray-tracers Distributed/Parallel Raytracers Renderers which are not raytracers, and graphics libraries Modellers, wireframe viewers Radiosity renderers Volume renderers Geometric viewers Data Formats and Data Sets for Ray Tracing Written Material on Rendering Image Manipulation Libraries Animation Players Paint Programs Libraries with code for graphics FTP Sites WWW sites Ray-tracers: ------------ RayShade - a fast ray tracer for workstations on up, also for PC, Mac & Amiga, has Linda parallel language support and distributed network support programs; however, the package has not evolved much lately and the author (Craig Kolb) has been too busy to fold in bug fixes and have one official version, so things are a bit scattered at this point. POV-Ray - Persistence of Vision ray tracer, now at version 2.2. Offspring and successor to DKB Trace, written by Compuservers. Probably the best free ray tracer on the IBM PC, partly because of the many programs which support it (e.g. Moray, POVCAD, L-Parser, CTDS, etc etc etc). There is also FTPOV-Ray, which is a faster (unofficial) POV at informatik. Polyray - a shareware IBM PC ray tracer, object code only, but very popular among users; has nice features for animation generation. Its programmer, Alexander Enzmann, also works on PoV-Ray, so features in it tending to migrate to PoV. Radiance - see "Radiosity", below. A physically based ray tracer, heavily emphasizes realistic lighting and shading models. Excellent package, well supported and works on many platforms. ART - ray tracer with a good range of surface types, some interesting solid texture functions; part of VORT package. RTrace - Ray tracer by Antonio Costa, does bicubic patches, CSG, 3D text, etc. IBM PC and Mac versions also exist. Imports many different model formats. Also attaches to Bernard Kwok's radiosity package. VIVID2 - A shareware raytracer for PCs - binary only (286/287). Author: Stephen Coy (scoy@microsoft.com). The 386/387 (no source) version is available to registered users (US$50) direct from the author. "Bob" is a subset of this ray tracer, source available only through disks in "Photorealism and Raytracing in C" by Christopher Watkins et al, M&T Books. Microcosm - Nice commercial rendering system using scripting language, from vector representations to ray tracing. Demo available on net. BRL-CAD - A ray-tracer, CAD package, and much more from the Ballistics Research Laboratories. Evidently has a fair-sized, dedicated user base. Free, but you must register it before use. RAY4 - Steve Hollasch's 4-dimensional ray tracer - renders hyperspheres, hypertetrahedra, hyperplanes, and hyperparallelepipeds (there's a separate real-time wireframe viewer written in GL called WIRE4 ) . DKBtrace - an older ray tracer, superceded by PoV-Ray. MTV,QRT,DBW - yet more ray tracers, some with interesting features, but old. There are a lot more than these, but these are the ones which are "free" and have some user base. Which one's the best? Here's a ray tracer feature comparison of some of the more popular ones. I assume some basics, like each can run on a Unix workstation, can render a polygon, has point lights, highlighting, reflection & refraction, etc. A "." means "no". Things in parentheses mean "no, but there's a workaround". For example, POV 1.0 has no efficiency scheme so takes forever on scenes with lots of objects, but there are programs which can generate efficiency structures for some POV objects (also, in this case, POV 2.0 will fix this deficiency). Rayshade POV 1.0 RTrace Radiance Bob ART #IBM PC version? Y Y Y Soon Y Y Amiga version? Y Y . Y . (Y) Mac version? Y Y Y A/UX . Y Sphere/Cylinder/Cone Y Y Y Y Y Y Torus primitive Y Y Y . . Y Spline surface prim. . Y Y . . Y Arbitrary Algebraic prim. . Y . . . Y Heightfield primitive Y Y . . . Y Metaball primitive Y Y . . . Y Modeling matrices Y Y Y . . Y Constructive Solid Geo. Y Y Y (antimatter) (clipping) Y Efficiency scheme? grids (user/2.0) ABVH octtree ABVH kdtree+ 2D texture mapping Y Y Y Y Y Y 3D solid textures Y strong Y Y Y Y Advanced local shading . Y Y Much! . . Atmospheric effects Y Y . . Y Y Radiosity effects . . Y Y . . Soft shadows Y (2.0) Y Y Y Y Motion blur Y . . . . . Depth of field effects Y . Y . Y . Stereo pair support Y . Y . . . Advanced filter/sample Y . Y Y Y . Animation support Y (S/W) Y (some) . Y Alpha channel output Y . Y . . Y Modeler lib/P3D IBM+ (convert) on Mac w/code P3D Model converters from NFF Many! Many! some . NFF,OFF Network rendering Inetray . . in 2.2 . dart,nart User support maillist maillist good digest+ little good Other S/W support some Much! a bit some a bit some Timings - default size SPD databases (i.e. up to 10,000 objects in a scene), time in seconds on HP 720 workstation, optimized and gprof profiled code. Includes time to read in the ASCII data file and set up. Note that profiling slows down the execution times, so real times would be somewhat faster in all cases (about 30%); plus, the profiler itself is good to +-10%. Also, these timings are purely for this machine - results will vary considerably depending on the platform. Now that I've explained why these are useless, here goes: balls gears mount rings teapot tetra tree Art/Vort 478 1315 239 595 235 84 381 Art/Vort +float 415 1129 206 501 203 72 327 Rayshade w/tweak 188 360 174 364 145 61 163 Rayshade w/grid 1107 412 174 382 145 61 1915 Radiance 289 248 165 601 150 42 197 Bob 402 747 230 831 245 50 266 RTrace 664 1481 813 1343 341 153 372 RTrace c6 m0 652 1428 811 1301 331 155 363 POV 2.0beta+ 588 1895 668 1113 306 56 542 POV 1.0 191000 1775000 409000 260000 45000 31000 250000 The gears and mount tests are probably worth ignoring because everyone handles shadows for transparent objects differently. Some consider them opaque to shadows, others handle it differently. Here are timing ratios (i.e. 1 is the fastest time for a given test, with the other timings normalized to this value): balls gears mount rings teapot tetra tree Art/Vort 2.54 5.30 1.45 1.63 1.62 2.00 2.34 Art/Vort +float 2.21 4.55 1.25 1.38 1.40 1.71 2.01 Rayshade w/tweak 1 1.45 1.05 1 1 1.45 1 Rayshade w/grid 5.89 1.66 1.05 1.05 1 1.45 11.75 Radiance 1.54 1 1 1.65 1.03 1 1.21 Bob 2.14 3.01 1.39 2.28 1.69 1.19 1.63 RTrace 3.53 5.97 4.93 3.69 2.35 3.64 2.28 RTrace c6 m0 3.47 5.76 4.92 3.57 2.28 3.69 2.23 POV 2.0beta+ 3.13 7.64 4.05 3.06 2.11 1.33 3.33 POV 1.0 1015.96 7157.26 2478.79 714.29 310.34 738.10 1533.74 Art/Vort was compiled with and without a "+f" compiler option; with it on floating point numbers are not promoted to doubles during expression evaluation (and so things runs noticeably faster). Other packages may benefit from such compiler options. Rayshade had some minor user intervention. The ceiling of the cube root of the number of objects in the scene was used as the efficiency grid resolution. For example, balls has 7382 objects: cube root is 19.47, ceiling is then 20, so a 20 x 20 x 20 grid was used. Rayshade needs hand tweaking of the grid structures for extra efficiency (esp. with balls and tree), though this is fairly simple for the SPD tests (i.e. leave the background polygon out of the grid structure). Tweaking in these cases means leaving ground plane polygon (if it exists) out of the grid structure. Radiance is quite different in its approach, as it is more physically based. Efficiency structures are built in a separate program (so the time spent doing this is not included in the above stats). Also, Radiance outputs in a floating point format (which can be quite handy). RTrace is often a bit faster when the "c6 m0" options are used. POV 2.0 has an efficiency scheme built in and so is comparable to the others, so don't get freaked out by the POV 1.0 performance numbers. Distributed/Parallel Raytracers: -------------------------------- XDART - A distributed ray-tracer that runs under X11. There are server binaries which work only on DECstations, SPARCs, HP Snakes (7x0 series) and NeXT. The clients are distributed as binaries and C source. Inetray - A network version of Rayshade 4.0. Needs Sun RPC 4.0 or newer. Contact Andreas Thurnherr (ant@ips.id.ethz.ch) RRLib - Another distributed version of Rayshade. Contact: Wilfried Koch prt, VM_pRAY - parallel ray tracers. Renderers which are not raytracers, and graphics libraries: ----------------------------------------------------------- SIPP - Scan line z-buffer and Phong shading renderer. Now uses the shadow buffer algorithm. Tcl-SIPP - a Tcl command interface to the SIPP rendering program. Tcl-SIPP is a set of Tcl commands used to programmed SIPP without having to write and compile C code. Commands are used to specify surfaces, objects, scenes and rendering options. It renders either in PPM format or in Utah Raster Toolkit RLE format or to the photo widget in the Tk-based X11 applications. VOGLE - graphics learning environment (device portable). VOGL - an SGI GL-like library based on VOGLE. REND386 - A *fast* polygon renderer for IBM PC 386s and up. Version 2 on up. [ It's not photorealistic, but rather a real-time renderer] RENDERLIB - 3D DLL for IBM PC Windows 3.0, RLIBDEMO.ZIP. XSHARP21 - Dr. Dobb's Journal PC renderer source code, with budget texture mapping. CRITERION - Canon / Criterion Renderware package - real time graphics API and toolkit for various platforms. Modellers, wireframe viewers: ----------------------------- Moray, POVCAD - modelers for the PC for POV. BLOB - Fun blobby modeler for PC (output to POV, DXF, etc) VISION-3D - Mac modeler, can output Radiance & Rayshade files. IRIT - A CSG solid modeler, with support for freeform surfaces. BRL-CAD - A CAD modeler, comes with ray tracer, image support, etc etc. P3D - See volume rendering section. X3D - A wireframe viewer for X11. 3DV - 3-D wireframe graphics toolkit, with C source, 3dv objects, other stuff Look at major PC archives like wuarchive. One such file is 3DKIT1.ZIP (at romulus.ulowell.edu) PV3D - a shareware front end modeler for POVRAY 2.x and Vivid 2.x (latest version: 2.10). French docs for now, price for registering 250 French Francs. Save disabled. Some extra utilities for the registered version. Contact: lecointe@ccbbs.gna.org (Lecointe Ludovic) Xmgf - A Motif based Object viewer ( public domain, with source ) Xmgf can read other CAD or object file formats via filters. Current formats include NFF/OBJ/OFF/RAY/SLA/DXF/MINICAD/IGRIP. These filters do not cover all the features avaliable but they are a start. Xmgf Auto-scales images,can have the viewing parameters stored in a file produce Xfig and Postscript and MIF output as well as RAYSHADE data files and PGM, PBM and XBM SunRaster and GIF image outputs. Contact: Paul Hoad Multiverse - X11R4 & Berkeley sockets animator and more. AERO - actually, it's a rigid-body visualizer and animator. +Xvirtual - a Linux/X11 program (Xview). Wireframe, solid shading + (in real time), plus (optional) shadows (not so real time). + Marcus Roth Radiosity renderers: -------------------- Radiance - a ray tracer w/radiosity effects, by Greg Ward. Excellent shading models and physically based lighting simulation. Unix/X based, though # has been ported to the Amiga and is going ported to the PC (386). RAD - a simple public-domain radiosity package in C. The solution can be run stand-alone on any Unix box, but the walk-through requires a SGI 4D. Author: Bernard Kwok INDIA - An Indian radiosity package based on Radiance. SGI_RAD - An interactive radiosity package that runs on SGI machines with a Spaceball. It includes a house database. Author: Guy Moreillon NeXTrad - yet another (minimal) radiosity package, for the NeXT computers (requires NeXTSTEP 3.0+) Volume renderers: ----------------- P3D - Outputs to Rayshade, DXF, RenderMan, Art, and others. VREND - Cornell's Volume Renderer, from Kartch/Devine/Caffey/Warren (FORTRAN). Bob - Brick of Bytes, for SGI machines from UMN Geometric viewers: ------------------ SALEM - A GL-based package from Dobkin et al. for exploring mathematical structures. GEOMVIEW - A GL-based package for looking and interactively manipulating 3D objects, from Geometry Center at Minnesota. (There are SGI and NeXT versions at least) XYZ GeoBench -(eXperimental geometrY Zurich) is a workbench for geometric computation for Macintosh computers. WIRE4 - GL wireframe previewer for Steve Hollasch's RAY4 (see above) Data Formats and Data Sets for Ray Tracing: ------------------------------------------- SPD - a set of procedural databases for testing ray tracers. NFF - simplistic file format used by SPD. OFF - another file format. P3D - a lispy file format. TDDD - Imagine (3D modeler) format, has converters for RayShade, NFF, OFF, etc. Also includes a nice postscript object displayer. Some GREAT models. T3DLIB - converts to/from TDDD/TTDDD, OFF, NFF, Rayshade 4.0, Imagine, and vort 3d objects. Also outputs Framemaker MIF files and isometric views in Postscript. Registered users get a TeX PK font converter and a superquadric surfaces generator. Glenn Lewis MSDL - Manchester Scene Description Language. The distribution consists of the definition for a 3D scene description language, and a parser to help users write applications to read scenes. The user compiles the parser, and links it to his or her application. Included with the distribution are utilities to help convert OFF file into MSDL objects. Some samples scenes are also available. Contact: cgu-info@mcc.ac.uk World Wide Web pages at http://info.mcc.ac.uk/CGU/MSDL/MSDL-intro.html +MGF - Materials and Geometry Format, a least common denominator language for + describing scenes and objects suitable for physically-based rendering + applications (among other things). + World Wide Web pages at ftp://hobbes.lbl.gov/www/mgf/HOME.html Volume Rendering Data: ---------------------- CHVRTD - Chapel Hill Volume Rendering Test Datasets, includes volume sets for two heads, a brain, a knee, electron density maps for RNA and others. AVS - Volume Visualization datasets. Written Material on Rendering: ------------------------------ RT News - collections of articles on ray tracing. RT abstracts - collection by Tom Wilson of abstracts of many RT articles. RT bib - references to articles on ray tracing in "refer" format. Rad bib - references to articles on radiosity (global illumination). + (maintained by Ian Ashdown) Speer RT bib - Rick Speer's cross-referenced RT bib, in postscript. Paper bank project - various technical papers in electronic form. Contact Juhana Kouhia Online Bibliography Project : The ACM SIGGRAPH Online Bibliography Project is a database of over 15,000 unique computer graphics and computational geometry references in BibTeX format, available to the computer graphics community as a research and educational resource. The database is located at "siggraph.org". Users may download the BibTeX files via FTP and peruse them offline, or telnet to "siggraph.org" and log in as "biblio" and interactively search the database for entries of interest, by keyword. For the people without Internet access, there's also an e-mail server. Send mail to archive-server@siggraph.org and in the subject or the body of the message include the message send followed by the topic and subtopic you wish. A good place to start is with the command send index which will give you an up-to-date list of available information. Questions should be directed to the admin, "bibadmin@siggraph.org". Image Manipulation Libraries: ----------------------------- Utah Raster Toolkit - nice image manipulation tools. PBMPLUS - a great package for image conversion and manipulation. LIBTIFF - library for reading/writing TIFF images. ImageMagick - X11 package for display and interactive manipulation of images. Includes tools for image conversion, annotation, compositing, animation, and creating montages. Uses its own format (MIFF), and includes some converters. xv - X-based image display, manipulation, and format converter. xloadimage, xli - displays various formats on an X11 screen. Khoros - a huge, excellent system for image processing, with a visual programming interface and much much more. Uses X windows. FBM - another set of image manipulation tools, somewhat old now. Img - image manipulation, displays on X11 screen, a bit old now. SDSC - SDSC Image Tools package (San Diego Supercomputing Center) for image manipulation and conversion Animation Players ----------------- xflick - Plays .FLI animation under X11 XAnim - plays any resolution FLI along with GIF's(including GIF89a animation extensions), AVI, Quicktime, DL's and Amiga IFF animations(3,5,J,l) and IFF pictures(including HAM,EHB, and color cycling). Runs under Unix / VMS and has many new animation types added everyday. PVRG-MPEG - Portable Video Research Group at Stanford' MPEG sequence compression and decompression engines (codecs) for MPEG, CCITT H.261, and JPEG. The primary goal of these codecs is to provide the functionality, not speed. UCB-MPEG - MPEG decoder/viewer of the Berkeley Plateau Research group (with X11 support) Paint Programs -------------- CLRpaint - A 24-bit paint program for SGI 24bit workstations and 8bit Indigos. BIT - Another 24-bit paint program for SGI machines. [ Described under Subject 15 : Image annotation software ] Xpaint - paint program for X11 systems. [ Described under Subject 15 : Image annotation software ] Libraries with code for graphics: --------------------------------- Graphics Gems I,II,III,IV - code from the ever so useful books. spline-patch.tar.Z - spline patch ray intersection routines by Sean Graves kaleido - Computation and 3D Display of Uniform Polyhedra. Mirrored in wuarchive. This package computes (and displays) the metrical properties of 75 polyhedra. Author: Dr. Zvi Har'El, e-mail: rl@gauss.technion.ac.il qhull - Source code in C for general dimension convex hull and Delaunay triangulation. You can view the results in 3-d and 4-d with geomview. Contact: Brad Barber (barber@geom.umn.edu) Nurbs - University of Manchester NURBS library. This C library provides NURBS creation, elevation, interpolation, extrusion and revolution functions, as well as a simple function to post the representation into an implementation of PHIGS PLUS. Available for both UNIX & VAX/OpenVMS. Contact: cgu-info@mcc.ac.uk WorldWideWeb pages at http://info.mcc.ac.uk/CGU/NURBS/nurbs_library.html Morphology - Mathematical morphology package. Morphological operators are shape-dependent, nonlinear image transforms such as erosion, dilation, opening, closing, and rank filters. The software includes a 2D image morphology program, a 3D voxel image morphology program, a program for enhancement and noise reduction of 2D images, and related support routines for image arithmetic and logical operations. FTP Sites --------- (*) means site is an "official" distributor, so is most up to date. NORTH AMERICA (please look for things on your own continent first...): ------------- wuarchive.wustl.edu [128.252.135.4]: This one has almost everything, but is also very busy - try during off-hours. /graphics/graphics - get CONTENTS file for a roadmap. Within this directory are a wide range of resources, including: bib - various ray tracing, radiosity, and general bibliographies. books - code from books and errata listings for various texts. echidna - Univ. of Melbourne programs: vogl/e, vopl, vort. hershey-fonts - public domain stroke fonts. objects - various object databases (TDDD, SPD, OFF, polyhedra, nurbs). packages - image manipulation, CAD, and other graphics packages. papers - various graphics papers. radiosity - includes Radiance. ray - many ray tracers, RTNews, Wilson's RT abstract collection, etc. non-3d - 4d & hyperbolic space visualization. virtual-worlds - VR related material. The mirrors directory is huge, including many major sites, including the official POV archive, the Oldenburg POV site, the Geometry Center, NCSA, SGI, Virtual Worlds archive, Avalon object descriptions, Virtual Reality archive, and more. There is also various platform dependent graphics software, e.g. /msdos/ddjmag/ddj9209.zip - version 21 of Xsharp, with fast texture mapping. /pub/aminet/gfx/3d - T3DLIB package. /pub/aminet/gfx/3dobj - TDDD objects. /pub/aminet/pix/trace - various raytraced images. /pub/aminet/pix/wb - workbench wallpaper (IFF) images, textures. admin: George Kyriazis princeton.edu [128.112.128.1]: home of lots of ray tracing related software /pub/Graphics (note capital "G") - *Rayshade 4.0.6 ray tracer (and separate 387 executable)*, *color quantization code*, *SPD*, *RT News*, *Wilson's RT abstracts*, "RT bib*, *Utah Raster Toolkit*, newer FBM, *Graphics Gems I through IV code*, *RRLib*. /pub/graphics directory - *SALEM* and other stuff. /pub/trees/drinkwater - tree images from Drinkwater's growing program. admin: Craig Kolb [upload to ftp.cs.princeton.edu:/incoming] avalon.chinalake.navy.mil [129.131.44.11]: pub - 3D objects (multiple formats), utilities, file format documents. obj/Viewpoint and New are particularly good quality. utils/misc - PV3D. misc/texture - textures. This site was created to be a 3D object "repository" for the net. It's mirrored from ftp.kpc.com and wuarchive.wustl.edu . Francisco X DeJesus alfred.ccs.carleton.ca [134.117.1.1]: /pub/pov-ray/POV-Ray2.2 - *POVRay Compuserve group ray tracer (or POV)* and models. /pub/dkbtrace - *DKB ray tracer* (now ancient history). David Buck #harbor.ecn.purdue.edu [128.46.154.76] : pub/tcl/extensions/tsipp-?.??.tar.Z - *Tcl-SIPP* # Mark Diekhans + [ also at ftp.neosoft.com [198.64.6.7] :/pub/tcl/distrib/tsipp?.??.tar.gz ] moose.cs.indiana.edu [129.79.254.191]: /pub/RW5 - test databases for radiosity and other serious illumination simulation algorithms. Peter Shirley ftp.mv.com [192.80.84.1]: pub/ddj - Official Dr. Dobbs Journal FTP repository. *XSHARP* and other interesting algorithms. hobbes.lbl.gov [128.3.12.38]: pub - *Radiance* ray trace/radiosity package, pictures, ports, etc. + /pub/doc - *Rad bib*, /www/mgf - *MGF* Greg Ward ftp.arc.umn.edu [137.66.130.11] : pub/gvl.tar.Z - the latest version of *Bob*, Icol and Raz. Source, a manual, man pages, and binaries for IRIX 4.0.5 are included (Bob is a real time volume renderer) pub/ contains also many volume datasets. Ken Chin-Purcell geom.umn.edu [128.101.25.31] : pub/software/geomview - *GEOMVIEW* and other Geometry Center visualization packages. Contact: software@geom.umn.edu pub/qhull.tar.Z (Mac version : qhull.sit.hqx) - *qhull* ftp.kpc.com [144.52.120.9] : /pub/graphics/holl91 - Steve Hollasch's Thesis, /pub/graphics/ray4 - *RAY4*, /pub/graphics/wire4 - *WIRE4*. /pub/mirror/avalon - mirror of avalon's 3D objects repository. Steve Hollasch swedishchef.lerc.nasa.gov [139.88.54.33] : programs/hollasch-4d - RAY4, SGI Explorer modules and Postscript manual, etc. jazz.gsfc.nasa.gov [128.183.88.159]: dist/bathymetry - *global sea depth/topography grid+goodies*, dist/triangulation - voronoi/delauney triangulation in 2D, dist/fastfouriertransform - standard fft routine, mixed radix dist/f77hiccups - a collection of nasty f77 sources E. Schrama (eschrama@geodesy2.gsfc.nasa.gov) cs.usask.ca [128.233.130.10] : pub/geometry/geombib.tar.Z - Computational Geometry bibliography (very extensive, 5539 entries to date). Bill Jones zamenhof.cs.rice.edu [128.42.1.75] : pub/graphics.formats - Various electronic documents about many object and image formats. pub/morphine - morphing package. Mark Hall will apparently no longer be maintaining it, see ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu. rascal.ics.utexas.edu [128.83.144.1]: /misc/mac/inqueue - VISION-3D facet based modeller, can output RayShade and Radiance files. ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu [141.142.20.50] : misc/file.formats/graphics.formats - contains various image- and object-format descriptions. Many SciVi tools in various directories, e.g. SGI/Alpha-shape/Alvis-1.0.tar.Z - 3D alpha-shape visualizer (SGI machines only), SGI/Polyview3.0/polyview.Z - interactive visualization and analysis of 3D geometrical structures, outputs in Rayshade and RIB formats. /outgoing/marca/natural-textures - various textures (temporary). Quincey Koziol tucana.noao.edu [140.252.1.1] : /iraf - the IRAF astronomy package ftp.ipl.rpi.edu [128.113.14.50]: pub/image - various 24 and 8 bit image stills and sequences. Kevin Martin ftp.psc.edu [128.182.66.148]: pub/p3d - p3d_2_0.tar P3D lispy scene language & renderers. Joel Welling ftp.ee.lbl.gov [128.3.254.68]: *pbmplus.tar.Z*, pub/ray - RayShade data files. Jef Poskanzer george.lbl.gov [128.3.196.93]: pub/ccs-lib/ccs.tar.Z - *CCS* (Complex Conversion System), an image conversion & manipulation package. pub/scry.tar.Z - Scry, a SciVi utility havefun.stanford.edu [36.2.0.35] : pub/mpeg/MPEGv?.?.tar.Z - *PVRG-MPEG* sepftp.stanford.edu [36.51.0.59] : pub/Vplot - the Vplot graphics system, pub/World_Map - The CIA World Map II vector outline database, [ It's the new name for hanauma.stanford.edu ] ftp.uu.net [192.48.96.2]: /graphics - *IRIT*, old RT News back issues (not complete), NURBS models, other graphics related material, graphics/3D/tsipp.3.0b.tar.Z - Tcl-SIPP (SIPP with Tcl interface), /graphics/jpeg/jpegsrc.v?.tar.Z - Independent JPEG Group package for reading and writing JPEG files. knob2.engin.umich.edu [141.212.102.27] : *Utah Raster Toolkit* Spencer Thomas ftp.x.org [198.112.44.100] : /contrib - pbmplus, Image Magick, xloadimage, xli, xv, Img, *Xmgf*, *XAnim*, lots more X-related programs. /pub/R5untarred/mit/demos/gpc - NCGA Graphics Performance Characterization (GPC) Suite. cs.utah.edu [128.110.4.21]: /pub - Utah raster toolkit, *NURBS databases*. Jamie Painter artemis.arc.nasa.gov [128.102.115.149]: /sig-wtk/models - variety of DXF and NFF models. gatekeeper.dec.com [16.1.0.2]: /pub/DEC/off.tar.Z - *OFF models*, pub/graphics - jpeg, Khoros, pbmplus, Rayshade, Utah RLE, libtiff. data/cia-wdb - CIA world database ftp.khoros.unm.edu [198.59.155.28]: /pub/khoros - *Khoros image processing package (huge, but great)*. Danielle Argiro dpls.dacc.wisc.edu [144.92.188.90] : /graphics/x3d/x3d.2.2.tar.Z - *X3D*, /graphics/xdart/xdart.1.1.* - *XDART*, /graphics/mcm - *Microcosm* - demo of nice rendering and ray tracing system using an interpreted scripting language. /graphics/utilities - ImageMagick 2.3 Cosmic Software Mark Spychalla sgi.com [192.48.153.1]: /graphics/tiff - TIFF 6.0 spec & *LIBTIFF* software and pics. Also much SGI- and GL-related stuff (e.g. OpenGL manuals) Sam Leffler [supercedes okeeffe.berkeley.edu for the LIBTIFF stuff] ftp.sdsc.edu [132.249.20.22]: /sdscpub - *SDSC* ftp.brl.mil [128.63.16.158]: /brl-cad - information on how to get the BRL CAD package & ray tracer. /pub/textures - a texture library has also begun here; not much here. Lee A. Butler ftp.cdrom.com [192.216.222.5] : an aminet (Amiga network) site, among many others. /pub/aminet/gfx/3d - T3DLIB package. /pub/aminet/gfx/3dobj - TDDD objects. /pub/aminet/pix/trace - various raytraced images. /pub/aminet/pix/wb - workbench wallpaper (IFF) images, textures. cicero.cs.umass.edu [128.119.40.189]: /texture_temp - 512x512 grayscale Brodatz textures, from Julien Flack . karazm.math.uh.edu [129.7.7.6]: pub/Graphics: rtabs.shar.12.90.Z - *Wilson's RT abstracts*, speer.raytrace.bib.ps.Z - Speer RT bibliography. J. Eric Townsend ftp.pitt.edu [130.49.253.1]: /users/q/r/qralston/images - 24 bit image archive (small). James Ralston Crawford ftp.tc.cornell.edu [128.84.201.1]: /pub/vis - *VREND* /pub/vis/Data.Explorer - IBM Data Explorer repository sunee.uwaterloo.ca [129.97.50.50]: /pub/rend386 - *REND386* cica.cica.indiana.edu: The MS Windows archive. Among other things, RLIBDEMO.ZIP - RENDERLIB 3D graphics DLL, desktop/gcad110.zip - GammaCAD 1.10, programr/3dlib30a.zip - C++ & Pascal 3D graphic animation archive.umich.edu [141.211.164.153]: /msdos/graphics - PC graphics stuff. /msdos/graphics/raytrace - VIVID2. netlib.att.com [192.20.225.2]: netlib/polyhedra - *polyhedra databases*. (If you don't have FTP, use the netlib automatic mail replier: netlib@netlib.att.com. Send one line message "send index" for info. siggraph.org [128.248.245.250]: SIGGRAPH archive site. publications/bibliography - extremely extensive computer graphics bibliography. Automatic mailer is archive-server@siggraph.org ("send index"). Conference proceedings in various electronic formats (papers, panels), SIGGRAPH Video Review information and order forms. ftp.cs.unc.edu [128.109.136.159]: pub/reaction_diffusion - Greg Turk's work on reaction-diffusion textures, X windows code (SIGGRAPH '91), pub - L-system code. pub/softlab/CHVRTD - Chapel Hill Volume Rendering Test Datasets. [ It's the same as omicron.cs.unc.edu ] avs.ncsc.org [128.109.178.23]: sample_data/VolVis92 - Volume datasets from the Boston Workshop on Volume Visualization '92. This site is also the International AVS Center. Terry Myerson uvacs.cs.virginia.edu [128.143.8.100]: pub/suit/demo/{sparc,dec,etc} - SUIT (Simple User Interface Toolkit). "finger suit@uvacs.cs.virginia.edu" to get detailed instructions. nexus.yorku.ca [130.63.9.66]: /pub/reports/Radiosity_code.tar.Z - *RAD* /pub/reports/Radiosity_thesis.ps.Z - *RAD MSc. Thesis* [This site may change to ftp.yorku.ca in the future] earthsea.stanford.edu [36.60.0.64] : ftp/pub/lego/cad/click and .../cad/rayshade - LEGO modeling tools and definitions for Rayshade. archive.cis.ohio-state.edu [128.146.8.52]: pub/siggraph92 - Code for Siggraph '92 Course 23 (Procedural Modeling and Rendering Techniques) lyapunov.ucsd.edu [132.239.86.10]: This machine is considered the repository for preprints and programs for nonlinear dynamics, signal processing, and related subjects (and fractals, of course!) Matt Kennel belvoir-arl-irisgt.army.mil [140.183.6.108] : pub/viewtree/images - various generated tree images (quite nice!), runnable demo for SGI's. Jason Weber ics.uci.edu [128.195.1.1]: /honig --- Various stereo-pair images movie.c - animates a movie on an X display (8-bit and mono) with digital subtraction. ftp-os2.nmsu.edu [128.123.35.151] : os2/2_x/graphics/rt.zip - CSG (?) ray tracer for PC with source, uses the GBM module for file I/O (found in same directory as gbmsrc.zip). Andy Key taurus.cs.nps.navy.mil [131.120.1.13]: pub/dabro/cyberware_demo.tar.Z - Human head data pioneer.unm.edu [129.24.9.217]: pub/texture_maps - Hans du Buf's grayscale test textures (aerial swatches, Brodatz textures, synthetic swatches). Space & planetary image repository. Provides access to >150 CD-ROMS with data/images (3 on-line at a time). /beginner-info - here you should start browsing. [not sure about this site, no answer the last time I tried it] Colby Kraybill . cs.brown.edu [128.148.33.66] : *SRGP/SPHIGS* . For more info on SRGP/SPHIGS: mail -s 'software-distribution' graphtext@cs.brown.edu pdb.pdb.bnl.gov [130.199.144.1] has data about various organic molecules, bonds between the different atoms, etc. Atomic coordinates (and a load of other stuff) are contained in the "*.ent" files, but the actual atomic dimensions seem to be missing. You could convert these data to PoV, rayshade, etc. biome.bio.ns.ca [142.2.20.2] : /pub/art - some Renoir paintings, Escher's pictures, etc. ftp.ee.umanitoba.ca [130.179.8.95] : /specmark - sample set of images from the `Images from the Edge' CD-ROM (images of atomic landscapes, advanced semiconductors, superconductors and experimental surface chemistry among others). Contact ruskin@ee.umanitoba.ca acs.cps.msu.edu [35.9.24.92]: pub/sass - Rayshade tools: X windows font converter and animation tool. Ron Sass dgp.toronto.edu [128.100.1.129] : pub/sgi/clrpaint - *CLRpaint* pub/sgi/clrview.* - CLRview, a tool that aids in visualization of GIS datasets in many formats like DXF, DEM, Arc/Info, etc. pub/lansd/lansd.ps.Z - Rob Lansdale's (lansd@dgp.toronto.edu) 200 page master's thesis, which covers all aspects of texture mapping, from the very basics, through conceptual tutorials on filtering, on through to advanced state-of-the-art texture filtering algorithms (EWA and NIL) # pub/dret/PhD - George Drettakis' PhD thesis # on radiosity & global illumination, w/tiff files. # Also at ftp.csri.toronto.edu [128.100.2.18]: csri-technical-reports/293 # George Drettakis + [ From a mistake, I had replicated parts of dgp's entry ] explorer.arc.nasa.gov [128.102.32.18]: pub/SPACE/CDROM - images from Magellan and Viking missions etc. Get pub/SPACE/Index first. pub/SPACELINK has most of the SpaceLink service data (see below) e-mail server available: send mail to archive-server@ames.arc.nasa.gov (or ames!archive-server) with subject:"help" or "send SPACE Index" (without the quotes!) Peter Yee pubinfo.jpl.nasa.gov [128.149.6.2]: images, other data, etc. from JPL missions. Modem access at (818)-354-1333 (no parity, 8 data bits, 1 stop bit). newsdesk@jplpost.jpl.nasa.gov or phone (818)-354-7170 spacelink.msfc.nasa.gov [128.158.13.250] (passwd:guest) : space graphics and GIF images from NASA's planetary probes and the Hubble Telescope. Main function is support for teachers (you can telnet also to this site). Dial up access: (205)-895-0028 (300/1200/2400/9600(V.32) baud, 8 bits, no parity, 1 stop bit). stsci.edu [130.167.1.2] : Hubble Space Telescope stuff (images and other data). Read the README first! Pete Reppert or Chris O'Dea ftp.u.washington.edu [140.142.56.2] : public/virtual-worlds - *multiverse* client-server VR system public/virtual-worlds/veos - VEOS Virtual Reality and distributed applications prototyping environment for Unix. Veos Software Support : veos-support@hitl.washington.edu oldpublic/fly - FLY! 3D Visualization Software demo. That package is built for "fly-throughs" from various datasets in near real-time. There are binaries for many platforms. Much stuff on Virtual Reality, including many product review files and other resources. zug.csmil.umich.edu [141.211.184.2]: X-Xpecs 3D files (an LCD glass shutter for Amiga computers - great for VR stuff!) sunsite.unc.edu [152.2.22.81]: /pub/academic/computer-science/virtual-reality - Final copy of the sugrfx.acs.syr.edu archive that ceased to exist. It contains Powerglove code, VR papers, 3D images and IRC research material. Jonathan Magid ftp.apple.com [130.43.2.3] : pub/VR/graphics.systems - Gossamer 2.0, real time rendering for the Mac. Jon Blossom spectrum.xerox.com [192.70.225.78] : pub/map/dem - USGS DEM data, plus lots of other map data related archives. charon.er.usgs.gov [128.128.40.24] : /pub/PROJ.4.1.3.tar.Z - library of map projections iris.ssec.wisc.edu [144.92.108.63]: pub/vis5d - 5D visualizer (for weather data, things like that). vacation.venari.cs.cmu.edu [128.2.209.207]: zbuf.tar - Rayshade z-depth output patch. cs.ubc.ca [137.82.8.5] : /ftp/pickup/spline - example images and data files for a Dragon head and body, a human knee, and a human finger produced with a local Hierarchical B-Spline modeler. /pub/local/vista - Vista computer vision software math.uh.edu [129.7.128.1] : /pub/Amiga/comp.sys.amiga.reviews/software/graphics/raist - images done using Real3D. pub/Amiga/comp.sys.amiga.reviews - reviews of Amiga products (including renderers, etc). Dan Barrett herx1.colorado.edu: /pub/irt/irt52.zip - optics ray tracing program (said to be buggy, though). toe.cs.berkeley.edu [128.32.149.117]: pub/multimedia/mpeg/mpeg-?.0.tar.Z - *UCB-MPEG* ftp.cs.cmu.edu [128.2.206.173] : /afs/cs/misc/rayshade/all_mach/omega/doc/Examples - Rayshade example images. oak.oakland.edu [141.210.10.117] : pub/msdos/graphics/frain182.zip and frasr182.zip - Fractint fractal generator executable and source. Lots of other DOS software, e.g. pub/msdos/graphics/pbmpl19d.zip is PBMplus for DOS. seq1.loc.gov [140.147.3.12] : /pub/vatican.exhibit - Library of Congress' *HUGE* scanned images from Vatican Library's Renaissance Culture Exhibit which was done from January 8, 1993 through April 30, 1993. K.D. Ellis sun.irus.rri.uwo.ca [129.100.7.136]: - MacCubeView (3D image display program for the Macintosh - displays 8-bit MRI images) Daniel W. Rickey monte.svec.uh.edu [129.7.2.23] : /pub/bit - *BIT* ftp.cs.rose-hulman.edu [137.112.40.250] : pub/CS_dept/NeXtrad.tar.Z - *NeXTrad* image.vanderbilt.edu [129.59.100.16] : /pub/morph.tar.Z - *Morphology* Richard Alan Peters II willis.cis.uab.edu [138.26.64.2] : pub/sloan/ContoursRelease.tar.Z - *A package for making surfaces from slices by Ken Sloan* Reference: ACM Transactions on Graphics, July 1992. Kenneth Sloan merlin.etsu.edu [192.43.199.20]: - VistaPro version of many USGS DEM files Brian Wright laser.elmer.alaska.edu [137.229.17.151] and charon.elmer.alaska.edu [137.229.17.254]: pub/DLG_CLG - Software for construction and playback of DLG grey scale animations. DLG files are available between 5:00pm and 7:00am Alaska Standard Time (one hour later than Pacific standard time) at laser. ftp.hyperion.com [192.65.216.1] : Home of the SciFi TV series Babulon 5. Contains many JPEG and GIF images, plus other stuff about the series. ftp.netcom.com [192.100.81.1] : /pub/natpix - some demos and freebies for Mac/SGI. /pub/cfogg/mpeg2 - MPEG2 encoders, source, and sample video sequences. ftp.nosc.mil [128.49.16.7] : /pub/grid.{ps,TeX,asc} - a short survey of methods to interpolate and contour bivariate data. tomahawk.welch.jhu.edu [128.220.59.75] : /pub/LW - the official Lightwave 3D mailing list FTP repository. Keith Christopher +cogsci.uwo.ca [129.100.6.10] : /pub/vr - Virtual Reality stuff + (especially for PowerGlove) ftp.cs.ualberta.ca [129.128.4.241] : *Minimal Reality (MR) Virtual + Reality toolkit*. Go to pub/graphics, get the file licence.ps + and return it signed to the Alberta people for getting a free + copy. rtfm.mit.edu [18.181.0.24] : /pub/usenet/news.answers - the land of FAQs. Graphics and pictures directories of particular interest. (Also available from mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu by sending a mail message containing: "help") EUROPE: ------- nic.funet.fi [128.214.6.100]: *pub/sci/papers - *Paper bank project, including Pete Shirley's entire thesis (with pics)*, *Wilson's RT abstracts*, Wilt's OORT code, pub/misc/CIA_WorldMap - CIA world data bank, comp.graphics.research archive, *India*, *Phoenix true color bitmap editor under X/Motif* and much, much more. Juhana Kouhia ftp.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de [134.106.1.9]: /pub/pov-ray - *POV raytracer*, *PV3D*, Polyray, BLOB, etc. wuarchive.wustl.edu: /mirrors/ftp.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de mirrors these directories of POV tools, etc. Newest tools are in the /pub/pov-ray/new directory. mirror at: ftp.uni-erlangen.de: /pub/pc/msdos/graphics/pov-ray. nestor.epfl.ch [128.178.139.3]: /pub/unix/radiance - Radiance. Good for European sites, but doesn't carry the add-ons that are available for Radiance. isy.liu.se [130.236.1.3]: pub/sipp/sipp-3.0.tar.Z - *SIPP* scan line z-buffer and Phong shading renderer. Jonas Yngvesson irisa.fr [131.254.2.3]: */iPSC2/VM_pRAY ray tracer*, SPD, /NFF - many non-SPD NFF format scenes, RayShade data files. Didier Badouel [may have disappeared] phoenix.oulu.fi [130.231.240.17]: *FLI RayTracker animation files (PC VGA) - also big .FLIs (640*480)* *RayScene demos* [Americans: check wuarchive first]. More animations to come. Jari Kahkonen peipa.essex.ac.uk [155.245.115.161]: the Pilot European Image Processing Archive; in a directory ipa, there are image synthesis packages. (examples: Khoros, image processing bibliographies, image converters, SciVi programs, etc.) Adrian Clarke (was: jyu.fi) [128.214.7.5]: /pub/graphics/ray-traces - many ray tracers, including VM_pRAY, DBW, DKB, MTV, QRT, RayShade, some RT News, NFF files. Jari Toivanen garbo.uwasa.fi [128.214.87.1]: Much PC stuff, etc., /pc/source/contour.f - FORTRAN program to contour scattered data using linear triangle-based interpolation asterix.inescn.pt [192.35.246.17]: pub/RTrace - *RTrace* nffutils.tar.Z (NFF utilities for RTrace), medical data (CAT, etc.) converters to NFF, Autocad to NFF Autolisp code, AUTOCAD 11 to SCN (RTrace's language) converter and other goodies. Antonio Costa (acc@asterix.inescn.pt) ftp.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de [129.69.211.2]: AERO, a virtual mechanics system, ties in with POVray and MPEG. Hartmut Keller (was: vega.hut.fi) [128.214.3.82]: /graphics - RTN archive, ray tracers (MTV, QRT, others), NFF, some models. teeri.oulu.fi [130.231.48.141] : pub/msdos/programming - files on game development on PCs, ray tracing, 3D, and too much more. + /pub/msdos/programming/formats - Many graphics formats (2- and 3-D). Jouni Miettunen sun4nl.nluug.nl [192.16.202.2]: /pub/graphics/raytrace - DBW.microray, MTV, etc ftp.luth.se [130.240.18.2]: graphics/raytracing - prt, others, ~/Doc - *Wilson's RT abstracts*, Vivid. /pub/aminet - aminet site (see wuarchive listing). [ The graphics, Doc directories don't exist anymore - nfotis ] ftp.fu-berlin.de [130.20.225.2]: /pub/unix/graphics/rayshade4.0/inputs - aq.tar.Z is RayShade aquarium [Americans: check princeton.edu first). Heiko Schlichting maggia.ethz.ch [129.132.17.1]: pub/inetray - *Inetray* and Sun RPC 4.0 code Andreas Thurnherr osgiliath.id.dth.dk [129.142.65.24]: /pub/amiga/graphics/Radiance - *Amiga port of Radiance 2.0*. Per Bojsen iamsun.unibe.ch [130.92.64.10]: Graphtal L-system interpreter (includes animation support, X11 and x-buffer previewer, output for Rayshade). Christoph Streit ftp.uni-kl.de [131.246.9.95]: /pub/amiga/raytracing/imagine - mirror of the hubcap Imagine files (hubcap is no longer around). unix.hensa.ac.uk [129.12.21.7] : misc/unix/ralcgm/ralcgm.tar.Z - CGM viewer and converter. There's an e-mail server also - mail to archive@unix.hensa.ac.uk with the message body "send misc/unix/ralcgm/ralcgm.tar.Z" maeglin.mt.luth.se [130.240.1.20]: graphics/raytracing - prt, others, ~/Doc - *Wilson's RT abstracts*, Vivid. [ I cannot get a connection to this machine - nfotis ] stesis.hq.eso.org [134.171.8.100]: on-line access to a huge astronomical database. (login:starcat;no passwd) DECnet:STESIS (It's the Space Telescope European Coordination Facility) Benoit Pirenne , phone +49 89 320 06 433 ftp.thp.Uni-Duisburg.DE [134.91.141.1]: pub/source/X11/Ygl-2.4.tar.{Z|gz} - *Ygl 2.4 (2d GL Emulation Library for X11)* Fred Hucht (fred@thp.Uni-Duisburg.DE) ise.fhg.de [132.230.254.6]: pub/radiance/rshow - Radiance, *SGI interactive previewer for RADIANCE*. metallica.prakinf.tu-ilmenau.de [141.24.11.247] : pub/PROJECTS/GOOD0.60 - *GOOD graphics OO project, including YART ray tracer* Ekkehard 'Ekki' Beier ftp.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.203.12]: /pub/cgu/nurbs/nurbs.tar.Z - *Nurbs*, /pub/cgu/ptk - Contains a PHIGS+ toolkit. /pub/cgu/MSDL - *MSDL* wowbagger.PC-Labor.Uni-Bremen.DE [134.102.228.9]: /pub/graphics/daVinci - daVinci (interactive graph-visualization system) - binaries, docs, graph examples tools for SunOS 4.1.x/Solaris 2.x. Contact: daVinci@Informatik.Uni-Bremen.DE neptune.inf.ethz.ch [129.132.101.33]: XYZ - *XYZ GeoBench* Peter Schorn ftp.univ-rennes1.fr [129.20.128.34]: /pub/Images/ASTRO/anim - Space-related animations in QUICKTIME (Mac), MPEG, FLI (PC), ANIM (Amiga) formats, plus software to display / convert these. Gopher access: roland.univ-rennes1.fr [129.20.128.27], in the directory 'Astro Gopher/anim' Frank ROUSSEL ftp.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]: /pub/ms-dose/graphics/raytrace - Moray ftp.lifl.fr [134.206.10.27] : /pub/users/graphix/lefer/SEADS - ray tracer using SEADS structure. Wilfrid Lefer cast0.ast.cam.ac.uk [131.111.68.35]: pub/gfl/temp.tar.gz - SunOs 4.1.3 POVRay executables. Geraint Lewis ftp.technion.ac.il [132.68.1.10]: /pub/supported/cs/graphics - *IRIT*. Gershon Elber gauss.technion.ac.il [132.68.112.60]: *kaleida* ftp.canon.co.uk [192.88.128.32]: /pub/renderware - *CRITERION* demos for MS-DOS/Windows, SUN SPARC (Solaris 1 / 2). Mike King +ftp.fht-mannheim.de [141.19.1.71] : pub/linux/X11/xvirtual.tar.gz - *Xvirtual* AUSTRALIA: ---------- uniwa.uwa.edu.au [130.95.128.1] : /pub/povray - *POVray*, plus many "unofficial" POV files. Currently very active. POVRAY account [ New name: ftp.uwa.edu.au ] gondwana.ecr.mu.oz.au [128.250.70.62]: pub - *VORT(ART) ray tracer*, *VOGLE*, Wilson's ray tracing abstracts, /pub/contrib/artscenes (ART scenes from Italy), pub/images/haines - Haines thesis images, Graphics Gems code, SPD, NFF & OFF databases, NFF and OFF previewers, IRIT, OORT, plus some 8- and 24bit images and lots of other stuff. pub/rad.tar.Z - *SGI_RAD* Bernie Kirby munnari.oz.au [128.250.1.21]: pub/graphics/vort.tar.Z - *VORT (ART) 2.1 CSG and algebraic surface ray tracer*, *VOGLE*, /pub - DBW, pbmplus. /graphics - room.tar.Z (ART scenes from Italy). David Hook plaza.aarnet.edu.au [139.130.23.2] : mirror site of various places, including /graphics/graphics/mirrors/ftp.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de marsh.cs.curtin.edu.au [134.7.1.1]: pub/graphics/bibliography/Facial_Animation, pub/graphics/bibliography/Morph, pub/graphics/bibliography/UI - stuff about Facial animation, Morphing and User Interfaces. pub/fascia - Fred Parke's fascia program. Valerie Hall katz.anu.edu.au [150.203.7.91] : /pub/stereograms - Single image random dot (SIRDS) stereogram site. merry.cs.monash.edu.au [130.194.67.101]: pub/alanf/pcad - toy CAD program written using DEC PHIGS (version 2.1) and intended for educational use. Alan Finlay OCEANIA - ASIA: --------------- ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz [130.216.1.5]: architec/Applications - *VISION-3D facet based modeller for Mac, can output RayShade files*. architec/Textures - texture library of 200+ TIFF textures. architec/Translators - ArchiCAD to Radiance translator. Many other neat things for Macs. Mirrored at wuarchive.wustl.edu: /mirrors/architec. Paul Bourke scslwide.sony.co.jp [133.138.199.1]: ftp2/SGI/Facial-Animation - Steve Franks site for facial animation. Steve Franks nctuccca.edu.tw [192.83.166.10]: /PC/graphics/disp - *DISP* : An image and animation viewer for 386PCs. Very good archive for the Taiwanese area. #WWW sites (rather untested) ========= http://www.cs.princeton.edu/grad/cek/rayshade - Rayshade (pretty official) #http://www.mit.edu:8001/activities/cgs/rayshade/guide/guide.html - Rayshade User's Guide (aka #http://web.mit.edu/afs/athena/activity/c/cgs/lib/html/rayshade/guide/guide.html) http://www.msi.umn.edu/miscdocs/Rayshade/index.html - Rayshade http://www.cs.cmu.edu:8001/afs/cs/project/cil/ftp/html/vision.html - Rayshade http://www.cs.cmu.edu:8001/afs/cs/misc/rayshade/all_mach/omega/doc/Examples/ rayimages.html [or rayimgtxt.html for no icons] - Rayshade "standard" images. Mark Maimone http://www.ifi.uio.no/~mariusw/pov/utilities.html - POV utilities. http://www.tu-graz.ac.at/CSIGGRAPHbib - Siggraph's Graphics online bibliography http://www.cm.cf.ac.uk:/Ray.Tracing/ - Ian Grimstead's ray tracing bibliography ftp://hobbes.lbl.gov/www/radiance/radiance.html - Radiance (U.S.A.) http://topquark.cecer.army.mil/~roland/povray/povray.html - Radiance (Swiss) http://acacia.ens.fr:8080/home/massimin/ray.ang.html - Sample images from Rayshade, POV and Inetray http://www.dataspace.com/WWW/vlib/comp-graphics.html - Virtual Library: (Ray-tracing, including stereoscopic and volume rendering) http://web.arl.mil/software/brlcad/ - BRL-CAD: (Contains several ray tracing papers) ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/natpix/htmlnatpix.html - NatPix's home page http://wavefront.wti.com - Wavefront http://www.cs.ruu.nl/people/otfried/html/geombib.html - Computational Geometry bibliography. http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/fractal-faq/faq.html - Fractal FAQ http://info.mcc.ac.uk/CGU/MSDL/MSDL-intro.html - Manchester Computing Centre, Computer Graphics Unit +ftp://hobbes.lbl.gov/www/ - Radiance, MGF, etc. Home Page +http://archpropplan.auckland.ac.nz/Graphics/radiance/radiance.html and +http://archpropplan.auckland.ac.nz/People/Mat/gallery/animations.html - + Radiance examples, animations, etc. ========================================================================= End of Part 1 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 From tusol.cs.trinity.edu!swrinde!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!Munich.Germany.EU.net!ecrc!news.forth.gr!news.ntua.gr!nfotis Thu Oct 6 14:16:13 1994 Newsgroups: comp.graphics,comp.answers,news.answers Path: tusol.cs.trinity.edu!swrinde!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 2/6] Message-ID: Followup-To: poster Lines: 935 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 17:19:25 GMT Approved: news-answers-request@MIT.Edu Xref: tusol.cs.trinity.edu comp.graphics:3090 comp.answers:1003 news.answers:3321 Archive-name: graphics/resources-list/part2 Last-modified: 1994/10/03 Computer Graphics Resource Listing : BIWEEKLY POSTING [ PART 2/6 ] ===================================================== Last Change : 3 Octomber 1994 Subject: 4. Mail servers and graphics-oriented BBSes =========================================== Please check first with the FTP places above, with archie's help. Don't overuse mail servers. There are some troubles with wrong return addresses. Many of these mail servers have a command like path a_valid_return_e-mail_address to get a hint for sending back to you stuff. DEC's FTPMAIL ------------- Send a one-line message to ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com WITHOUT a Subject: field, and having a line containing the word 'help'. You should get back a message detailing the relevant procedures you must follow in order to get the files you want. Note that the "reply" or "answer" command in your mailer will not work for this message or any other mail you receive from FTPMAIL. To send requests to FTPMAIL, send an original mail message, not a reply. Complaints should be sent to the ftpmail-request@uucp-gw-2.pa.dec.com address rather than to postmaster, since DECWRL's postmaster is not responsible for fixing ftpmail problems. BITFTP ------ For BITNET sites ONLY, there's BITFTP@PUCC. Send a one-line 'help' message to this address for more info. RED --- RED - Listserv Redirector is essentially a mail server. The Server Sites that are available are: Location EARN/BITNET Internet -------------- ---------------- ------------------- In Turkey: TRICKLE@TREARN TRICKLE@EGE.EDU.TR In Denmark: TRICKLE@DKTC11 In Italy: TRICKLE@IMIPOLI In Belgium: TRICKLE@BANUFS11 TRICKLE@UFSIA.AC.BE In Austria: TRICKLE@AWIWUW11 In Germany: TRICKLE@DS0RUS1I TRICKLE@RUSVM1.RUS.UNI-STUTTGART.DE In Israel: TRICKLE@TAUNIVM TRICKLE@VM.TAU.AC.IL In Netherlands: TRICKLE@HEARN TRICKLE@HEARN.NIC.SURFNET.NL In France: TRICKLE@FRMOP11 TRICKLE@FRMOP11.CNUSC.FR In Colombia: TRICKLE@UNALCOL TRICKLE@UNALCOL.UNAL.EDU.CO In Taiwan: TRICKLE@TWNMOE10 TRICKLE@TWNMOE10.EDU.TW You are urged to use the one that is closer to your location. Send a message to one of these containing the body /HELP and you'll get more instructions. INRIA-GRAPHLIB -------------- Pierre Jancene and Sabine Coquillart launched the inria-graphlib mail server a few months ago. echo help | mail inria-graphlib@inria.fr will give you a quick summary of what inria-graphlib contains and how to browse among its files. echo send contents | mail inria-graphlib@inria.fr will return the extended summary. As another example : echo send cgrl from Misc | mail inria-graphlib@inria.fr will return the Computer Graphics Resource Listing mirrored from comp.graphics. An access via Gopher to inria-graphlib was added last September to the one via e-mail. xgopher gopher.inria.fr 71 will connect you to the inria-graphlib service. The Listing is under the Misc directory BBSes ===== There are many BBSes that store datafiles, etc.etc., but a guide to these is beyond the scope of this Listing (and the resources of the author!) If you can point to me Internet- or mail- accessible BBSes that carry interesting stuff, send me info! Studio Amiga is a 3D modelling and ray tracing specific BBS, (817) 467-3658. 24 hours, 105 Meg online. -- From Jeff Walkup : "The Castle" 415/355-2396 (14.4K/v.32bis/v.42/v.42bis/MNP) (In Pacifica, dang close to San Francisco, California, USA) The new-user password is: "TAO". [J]oin base #2; The Castle G/FX, Anim, Video, 3D S.I.G., of which I am the SIG-Op, "Lazerus". -- 'You Can Call Me Ray' ray tracing related BBS in Chicago suburbs (708-358-5611) or (708-358-8721) -- Digital Pixel (Sysop: Mark Ng ) Phone : (416) 298 1487 Storage space: 330 megs Modem type: 14.4k baud,16.8k (Zyxel) , v32bis ,v32, mnp 5 Access Fee: none (free) System supported : DOS, OS/2, Amiga, Mac. Netmail: Currently no echo mail. Topics: Raytracing, Fractals, Graphics programming, CAD, Any Comp. Graphics related -- From: David Tiberio Amiga Graphics BBS (516) 473-6351 in Long Island, New York, running 24 hours at 14.4k v.32bis, with 157 megs on line. We also subscribe to 9 mailing lists, of which 5 originate from our BBS, with 3 more to be added soon. These include: Lightwave, Imagine, Real 3D (ray tracing) Database files include: Imagine 3D objects, 3D renderings, scalable fonts, music modules, sound samples, demos, animations, utilities, text databases, and pending Lightwave 3D objects. -- The Graphics Alternative [ From: Adam.Shiffman@f524.n125.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Adam Shiffman) ] Name: The Graphics Alternative Location: El Cerrito, CA Sysop: Adam Shiffman Node: 510-524-2780 (USR Dual v.32bis/HST 14.4k, Public Access) Node: 510-524-2165 (Hayes Optima 288, V.FC 28.8k, Subscribers) Node: 510-524-5081 (USR Sporster v.32bis 14.4k, Subscribers) # Users: 2100+ TGA focuses heavily on 3D Rendering, Raytracing, Modeling, 3D Ani- mation and Digital Imaging. The system is designed for use by both serious amateurs and industry professionals. TGA offers a complete suite of shareware and freeware programs, images, animations, viewers, source code, and much more, including lots of utilities such as the MORAY modeler for POV, the BLOB Modeler for POV/Polyray, PV3D, etc,. TGA also offers quality messaging with complete access to PCGnet (The Professional CAD and Graphics Network), and access to graphics related echoes within Fidonet and Usenet News Groups. TGA also offers Internet e-mail via a reliable UUCP gateway. Running PCBoard 15.1 BBS software under DESQview on a 80386-40 system with 8MB of RAM, 1.84GB of storage, and a 4-8GB 4mm DAT backup drive, open 24 hours. -- From: Scott Bethke The Intersection BBS, 410-742-5452 This BBS Is dedicated to supporting 3D Animators.The system is provided FREE OF CHARGE, and is NOT Commercialized in ANYWAY. Users are given FULL Access on the first call. Features: Usenet NEWS & Internet Mail, Fidonet Echo's & Netmail, 200 Megs online, V.32bis/V.42bis Modem. Platforms of interest: Amiga & The VideoToaster, Macintosh, Ms-Dos, Unix Workstations (Sun, SGI, etc), Atari-ST. -- From: Alfonso Hermida : Pi Square BBS (301)725-9080 in Maryland. It supports raytracers such as POV and VIVID. The BBS runs off a 486/33Mhz, 100Megs hard drive and CD ROM. Now it runs on a 14400 bps modem. Home of POVCAD. There are 2 versions, one for DOS graphics and the other one is for Windows. This modeler is a 3D wireframe based modeler. The current version (for PCs) is 2.0a, while the Windows version is 3.0a. Topics: computer graphics, PoV raytracer, Polyray raytracer, 3D modeling, POVCAD (PoV and Polyray wireframe modeler), Blob Sculptor (blob modeler) -- From: Lynn Falkow : Vertech Design's GRAPHIC CONNECTION. (503) 591-8412 in Portland, Oregon. V.32/V.42bis. The BBS, aside from carrying typical BBS services like message bases ( all topic specific ) and files ( CAD and graphics related -- hundreds of megabytes ), also offers material texture files that are full color, seamlessly tiling, photo-realistic images. There are samples available to first time callers. The BBS is a subscription system although callers have 2 hours before they must subscribe, and there are several subscription rates available. People interested in materials can subscribe to the library in addition to a basic subscription rate, and can use their purchased time to download whichever materials they wish. -- From: bazooka%podbox.uucp@cs.utexas.edu (Bob Anderson) Pair O Dice BBS in Austin, Texas, USA is focused on personal computer graphics. We keep shareware and PD graphic utilities for the Amiga, MS-Dos, Windows and Mac user. We also have an extensive graphic collection as well as text files and newsgroups regarding cyberart. The OTIS online art gallery is also kept online here for those that have no Net connection. 1.512.451.4610 @ 1200 - 2400 1.512.451.7117 @ 4400 - 14.4k 24hrs, 365 days -- From: zemke@launchprog.laafb.af.mil The Graphics Emporium BBS (310) 374-8805 600MB with on-line discussions 14.4 baud / 24hrs / 7days 'The 2D/3D graphics hub for the West' A FirstClass(tm) BBS dedicated to 2D and 3D graphics designers. 600MB on-line with objects, textures, applications and other graphics related media. Free access, but please use the FirstClass client to connect. Command line users can download the client (Mac/Windows) during first login. A OneNet member with many gateways to Major Graphics Design Companies. If you need a resource, it is probably here..... -- From: clark@qns.com (Neil Clark) [SYSOP] The Tackle Box BBS (405) 359-3301 100% DEDICATED to Ray Tracing!!!! Over 2 GIG online with 40 file areas. Now featuring the 'Tracers and Tracings CD-ROM'!! Now over 5,500 files!!! File areas include: Graphics Programs, Ray Traced Images, Hall of Fame Images, POV-Ray scene files, POV-Ray utilities, POV-Ray Modelers, Graphics Converters, Ray Traced Animations, OBJ objects such as Viewpoint Engineering (from avalon site), Textures, Fractal Programs, Virtual Reality, Graphics Source code, and MUCH MORE! Access is FREE with downloads on the very first call. Subscriptions are available for only $20 for a whole year. (70 min/ 2MEG per day) 2400-14.4 baud, 24 hours a day. ========================================================================== Subject: 5. Ray-tracing/graphics-related mailing lists ============================================= Imagine ------- Modeling and animation system for the Amiga: send subscription requests to Imagine-request@email.sp.paramax.com send material to Imagine@email.sp.paramax.com (Dave Wickard has substituted Steve Worley in the maintenance of the mailing list) - PLEASE note that the unisys.com address is NO longer valid!!! Alias ----- Modeling and animation system for SGI machines: To subscribe, send a mail containing the body subscribe alias-l to listserv@uga.cc.uga.edu Send material to alias-l@uga.cc.uga.edu LightWave --------- This modeling and animation package comes (usually) with NewTek's Video Toaster for the Amiga. To subscribe, send a mail containing the body subscribe lightwave-l to listserv@netcom.com Send material to lightwave-l@netcom.com If you encounter any problems, by all means send e-mail to lightwave-l-owner@netcom.com or djmccoy@netcom.com. Video Toaster ------------- NewTek's Video Toaster for the Amiga. To subscribe, send a mail containing the body subscribe toaster-l to listserv@netcom.com If you encounter any problems, by all means send e-mail to toaster-l-owner@netcom.com or djmccoy@netcom.com. 3D Studio --------- Autodesk's well known PC-based modelling/rendering/animation package. To subscribe, send a mail containing the body subscribe 3dstudio to majordomo@autodesk.com Send material to 3dstudio@autodesk.com If you encounter any problems or want to ask questions about the mailing list itself, send e-mail to 3dstudio-owner@autodesk.com. Real 3D ------- Another modeling and animation system for the Amiga (and now for the PCs). To subscribe, send a mail containing the body subscribe real3d-l to listserv@gu.uwa.edu.au Send material to real3d@gu.uwa.edu.au Rayshade -------- send subscription requests to rayshade-request@cs.princeton.edu send material to rayshade-users@cs.princeton.edu (Craig Kolb) Alladin 4D for the Amiga ---------- send subscription requests to subscribe@xamiga.linet.org and in the body of the message write #Alladin 4D username@domain Radiance -------- Greg Ward, the author, sends to registered (via e-mail) users digests of his correspodence with them, notes about fixes, updates, etc. His address is: gjward@lbl.gov REND386 ------- send subscription requests to rend386-request@sunee.waterloo.edu send material to rend386@sunee.waterloo.edu PoV ray / DKB raytracers ------------------------ To subscribe, send a mail containing the body subscribe dkb-l to listserv@trearn.bitnet send material to dkb-l@trearn.bitnet Mailing List for Massively Parallel Rendering --------------------------------------------- send subscription requests to mp-render-request@icase.edu send material to mp-render@icase.edu IBM Data Explorer SciVi package ------------------------------- send material to data-exp@watson.ibm.com (??) Wavefront --------- High end 3D modelling/animation/rendering for Unix machines. send subscription requests to LISTSERV@PSUVM.CAC.PSU.EDU with a *body* of: // JOB subscribe wavefr-l // EOJ And you'll get a message (hopefully) that gives you more instructions For Usenet folks, the comp.soft-sys.wavefront newsgroup has been created. Terrain Rendering ----------------- List for discussion of terrain rendering techniques. Send your subscription requests to: heightfield-list@monet.seas.gwu.edu. VOGLE / VOGL ------------ send subscription requests to vogle-request@ecr.mu.oz.au send material to vogle@ecr.mu.oz.au POVGUI ------ There is a new mailing list for the development of a GUI for POV. POVGUI-L@VM3090.EGE.EDU.TR (aka POVGUI-L@TREARN.BITNET) to subscribe, send mail to LISTSERV@VM3090.EGE.EDU.TR with a line SUBSCRIBE POVGUI-L Full Name RENDERWARE ---------- Criterion's (A Canon Company) real time renderer and API for various platforms. To subscribe, send a mail containing the body subscribe RW-LIST to listproc@canon.co.uk Playmation / Animation Master ----------------------------- From Hash, Inc, these packages are spline-based and do 3D modelling, animation, and rendering. [ Amiga, PCs, Macs ] To subscribe, send a mail containing the body subscribe animaster-l to listserv@netcom.com send material to animaster-l@netcom.com If you encounter any problems or want to ask questions about the mailing list itself, send e-mail to vance@netcom.com (Vance Gloster) ========================================================================== Subject: 6. Scene description languages ============================== NFF --- Neutral file format , by Eric Haines. Very simple, there are some procedural database generators in the SPD package, and many objects floating in various FTP sites. There's also a previewer written in HP Starbase from E.Haines. Also there's one written in VOGLE, so you can use any of the devices VOGLE can output on. (Check in sites carrying VOGLE, like gondwana.ecr.mu.oz.au) OFF --- Object file format, from DEC's Randy Rost (rost@kpc.com). [ The object archive server seems to be mothballed. In a future version, I'll remove the ref. to it -- nfotis ] Available also through their mail server. To obtain help about using this service, send a message with a "Subject:" line containing only the word "help" and a null message body to: object-archive-server@decwrl.dec.com. [For FTP places to get it, see in the relevant place]. There's an OFF previewer for SGI 4D machines, called off-preview in godzilla.cgl.rmit.oz.au . There are previewers for xview and sunview, also on gondwana. TDDD ---- It's a library of 3D objects with translators to/from OFF, NFF, Rayshade, Imagine or vort objects. Edited copy of the announcement follows (from Raytracing News, V4,#3): New Library of 3D Objects Available via FTP, by Steve Worley (worley@cup.portal.com) I have assembled a set of over 150 3D objects in a binary format called TDDD. These objects range from human figures to airplanes, from semi-trucks to lampposts. These objects are all freely distributable, and most have READMEs that describe them. In order to convert these objects to a human-readable format, a file with the specification of TDDD is included in the directory with the objects. There is also a shareware system called TTDDDLIB (officially on hubcap.clemson.edu) that will convert (ala PBM+) to/from various object formats : Imagine TTDDD (extension of TDDD?), OFF, NFF, Rayshade 4.0, or vort. Source included for Amiga/Unix as executables for the Amiga. Also outputs Framemaker MIF files and isometric views in Postscript. P3D --- From Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center. The P3D uses lisp with slight extensions to store three-dimensional models. A simple lisp interpreter is included with the P3D release, so there is no need to have access to any vendor's lisp to run this software. The mouse-driven user interfaces for Motif, Open Look, and Silicon Graphics GL, and the DrawP3D subroutine library for generating P3D without ever looking at the underlying Lisp. The P3D software currently supports nine renderers. They are: Painter - Painter's Algorithm, Dore, Silicon Graphics Inc. GL language, Generic Phigs, Sun Phigs+, DEC Phigs+, Rayshade, ART ray tracer (from VORT package) and Pixar RenderMan. The code is available via anonymous FTP from the machines ftp.psc.edu, directory pub/p3d, and nic.funet.fi, directory pub/graphics/programs/p3d. RenderMan --------- Pixar's RenderMan is not free - call Pixar for details. ========================================================================== Subject: 7. Solids description formats ============================= a. EEC's ESPRIT project 322 CAD*I (CAD Interfaces) has developed a neutral file format for transfer of CAD data (curves, surfaces, and solid models between CAD systems and from CAD to CAA (Computer Aided Analysis) an CAM (Computer Aided Manufacturing) b. IGES [v. 5.2 now] tries to define a standard to tranfer solid models - Brep and CSG. The current standard number is ANSI Y14.26M-1987 For documentation, you might want to contact Nancy Flower at NCGA Technical Services and Standards, 1-800-225-6242 ext. 308. and the cost is $300 [$100 for 5.1], plus S&H. This standard is not available in electronic format. c. PDES/STEP : This slowly emerging standard tries to encompass not only the geometrical information, but also for things like FEM, etc. The main bodies besides this standard are NIST and DARPA. You can get more information about PDES by sending mail to nptserver@cme.nist.gov and putting the line send index in the body (NOT the Subject:) area of the message. The people at Rutherford Appleton Lab. are also working on STEP tools: they have an EXPRESS compiler and an Exchange file parser, both available in source form (and for free) for research purposes. Soon they will also have an EXPRESS-based database system. For the tools contact Mike Mead, Phone: +44 (0235) 44 6710 (FAX: x 5893), e-mail: mm@inf.rl.ac.uk or {...!}mcsun!uknet!rlinf!mm or mm%inf.rl.ac.uk@NSFnet-relay.ac.uk ======================================================================= Subject: 8. Plotting packages ===================== Gnuplot 3.5 ----------- It is one of the best 2- and 3-D plotting packages, with online help.It's a command-line driven interactive function plotting utility for UNIX, MSDOS, Amiga, Archimedes, and VMS platforms (at least!). Freely distributed, it supports many terminals, plotters, and printers and is easily extensible to include new devices. It was posted to comp.sources.misc in version 3.0, plus patches. You can practically find it everywhere (use Archie to find a site near you!). The comp.graphics.gnuplot newsgroup is devoted to discussion of Gnuplot. Xvgr and Xmgr (ACE/gr) ----------------------- Xmgr is an XY-plotting tool for UNIX workstations using X or OpenWindows. There is an XView version called xvgr for Suns. Collectively, these 2 tools are known as ACE/gr. Compiling xmgr requires the Motif toolkit version 1.1 and X11R4 - xmgr will not compile under X11R3/Motif 1.0x. Check at ftp.ccalmr.ogi.edu [129.95.72.34] in /CCALMR/pub/acegr/xmgr-?.??.tar.Z (Motif version) # /CCALMR/pub/acegr/xvgr-?.??.tar.Z (XView version) + (Substitute the version number, ?.?? with at least 3.01) Comments, suggestions, bug reports to Paul J Turner Robot ----- Release 0.48 : 2-D and limited 3-D. Based on XView 3, written in C / Fortran (so you need a Fortran compiler or the f2c translator). Mainly tested on Sun4, less on DECstations. Check at ftp.astro.psu.edu (128.118.147.28), pub/astrod. The relevant files are: robotx-.--.tar.Z - Full source, plotting library, example scripts, documentation etc. "-.--" is the version number, e.g. the file may be robotx0.48.tar.Z robot-beta.tar.Z - most recent but untested version of the above. RobotManual.ps.Z - just the documentation. robot.sun4.Z - binary built on a SPARCstation (SunOS4.1.1). robot.dec.Z - binary built on a DECstation (Ultrix). robot.linux.gz - binary built on an IBM PC clone (LINUX). (compressed with gzip) VG plotting library ------------------- This is a library of Fortran callable routines at sunspot.ceee.nist.gov [129.6.64.151] Xgobi ----- It's being developed at Bellcore, and its speciality are multidimensional data sets analysis and exploration. You can call it from the S language also, and it works as an X11 client using the Athena widget set (or with an ASCII terminal). It's distributed free of charge from STATLIB at CMU. To get it via e-mail, send email to statlib@temper.stat.cmu.edu and in the body area of the message, put the line send xgobi from general If you want to pick it via ftp, connect to lib.stat.cmu.edu. Log in as "statlib" and use your e-mail address as your password. Then type cd general mget xgobi.* Warning: It's about 2 MB sources + large Postscript manual. Read the relevant README to decide whether you need it or not. PGPLOT ------ Runs on VAX/VMS and supposedly on UNIX. It's a set of fortran routines freely available (though copyrighted and requiring a nominal fee of $50 or so) that includes contour plots and support for various devices, including ps. Contact tjp@deimos.caltech.edu GGRAPH ------ Host shorty.cs.wisc.edu [128.105.2.8] : /pub/ggraph.tar.Z Unknown more details. epiGRAPH -------- For PCs. Call dvj@lab2.phys.lgu.spb.su (Vladimir J. Dmitriev) for details. You can get the program demo or (and) play version, if sent 10 $ to 1251 Budapest posta fiok 60 Hungary ph/fax 1753696 Budapest ph 2017760 Multiplot XLN ------------- For Amigas, shareware ($30 USD, #20 UK or $40 Aust.). Advanced 2D package that has a big list of features. Contact: Dr. Alan Baxter , Cambridge University Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1QP, UK Athena Plotter Widget set ------------------------- This version V6.0 is based on Gregory Bond's version V5-beta. Added some stuff for scientific graphs, i.e. log axes, free scalable axes, XY-lineplots and some more, and re-added plotter callbacks from V4, e.g. to request the current pointer position, or to cut off a rectangle from the plotting area for zooming-in. Version V6.0 has a log of bugs fixed and a log of improvements against V6-beta. Additionally I did some other changes/extensions, besides - Origin and frame lines for axes. - Subgrid lines on subtic positions. - Line plots in different line types (lines, points, lines+points, impulses, lines+impulses, steps, bars), line styles (solid, dotted, dashed, dot-dashed) and marker types for data points. - Legend at the right or left hand side of the plot. - Optional drawing to a pixmap instead of a window. - Layout callback for aligning axis positions when using multiple plotters in one application. Available at export.lcs.mit.edu, directory contrib/plotter SciPlot ------- SciPlot is a scientific 2D plotting and manipulation program. For the NeXT (requires NeXTStep 3.0), and it's shareware. Features: ASCII import and export; EPS export; copy, cut, paste with data buffer; free number of data points, data buffer, and document window; selective open and save ; plotting in many styles; automatic legend; subviews; linear and logarithmic axes; two different axes; text and graphic; color support; zoom; normalizing and moving; axis conversions; free hand data manipulations (cut, edit, move, etc.); data editor; sorting of data; absolute,relative, and free defined error bars; calculating with buffers (+, -, *, / ); background subtractions (linear,shirley,tougaard, bezier); integration and relative integration; fitting of one or more free defined functions; linear regression; calculations (+, -, *, /, sin, cos, log, etc.); function generator; spline interpolation; least square smooth and FFT smooth; differentiation; FFT; ESCA calculations and database; .. and something more You can find it on: ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de [130.149.17.7] : /pub/NeXT/science/SciPlot3.1.tar.Z Author: Michael Wesemann Scillerstr. 73,1000 Berlin 12, Germany mike@fiasko.rz-berlin.mpg.de PLPLOT ------ PLPLOT is a scientific plotting package for many systems, small (micro) and large (super) alike. Despite its small size and quickness, it has enough power to satisfy most users, including: standard x-y plots, semilog plots, log-log plots, contour plots, 3D plots, mesh plots, bar charts and pie charts. Multiple graphs (of the same or different sizes) may be placed on a single page with multiple lines in each graph. Different line styles, widths and colors are supported. A virtually infinite number of distinct area fill patterns may be used. There are almost 1000 characters in the extended character set. This includes four different fonts, the Greek alphabet and a host of mathematical, musical, and other symbols. The fonts can be scaled to any size for various effects. Many different output device drivers are available (system dependent), including a portable metafile format and renderer. Freely available (but copyrighted) via anonymous FTP on hagar.ph.utexas.edu, directory pub/plplot At present (v. 4.13), PLPLOT is known to work on the following systems: Unix: SunOS, A/IX, HP-UX, Unicos, DG/UX, Ultrix Other platforms: VMS, Amiga/Exec, MS-DOS, OS/2, NeXT Authors: Many. The main supporters are: Maurice LeBrun : PLPLOT kernel and the metafile, xterm, xwindow, tektronix, and Amiga drivers. Geoff Furnish : MS-DOS and OS/2 drivers Tony Richardson : PLPLOT on the NeXT GLE --- GLE is a high quality graphics package for scientists. It runs on a variety of platforms (PCs, VAXes, and Unix) with drivers for XWindows, REGIS, TEK4010, PC graphics cards, VT100s, HP plotters, Postscript printers, Epson-compatible printers and Laserjet/Paintjet printers. It provides LaTEX quality fonts, as well as full support for Postscript fonts. The graphing module provides full control over all features of graphs. The graphics primitives include user-defined subroutines for complex pictures and diagrams. Accompanying utilities include Surface (for hidden line surface plotting), Contour (for contour plots), Manip (for manipulation of columnar data files), and Fitls (for fitting arbitrary equations to data). GLE is written and maintained by Chris Pugmire Available via anon. FTP at these places: PC gle: SIMTEL, wuarchive.wustl.edu, and other mirrors, msdos/graphics/gle*.* UNIX gle: zephyr.grace.cri.nz (131.203.1.5), pub/gle/unix VMS gle: zephyr.grace.cri.nz (131.203.1.5), pub/gle/vms Mailing list: GLEList. Send a message to listserver@tbone.biol.scarolina.edu, with a message boyd containing sub glelist "Your Name" Mailing list maintainer: Dean Pentcheff SM (formerly supermongo) ------------------------ SM is an interactive plotting package for drawing graphs written by Robert Lupton and Patricia Monger. It has some capability to handle image data, but mostly works with vectors. The main features of the package are: - one can generate a plot with a minimum number of simple commands, - one can build and save plot subroutines to be invoked with a single user-defined command, - the program keeps a history of plot commands which can be edited and defined as a plot subroutine, to be reused, - one can define and perform mathematical operations on the data to be plotted from within the program, or read it from an ASCII file. SM runs on Unix and Unix-variant systems and VMS systems. The next release (2.2.1, June 1993) will also run on DOS PCs (sorry, no MacOS yet). SM has drivers for Sunview, X10, X11, SGI, various tek401x emulators, UIS, LN03, Imagen impress, QMS quic, HP Laserjet, and Postscript laser printers (also color and encapsulated postscript), raster devices, HPGL, REGIS graphics, and several odd (and likely obsolete) graphics terminals. Cost: SM is available for $300 U.S., $360 Canadian to university departments. A university-wide site license is $1500 U.S., $1800 Canadian. Prices for commercial or government agencies are $500 U.S. for a department, $2500 U.S. for an entire site. SM is not for sale to groups who want to use it for weapons research projects for the military agencies of any country. You only buy it once - the license entitles you to unlimited free upgrades. The distribution includes the source, documentation (TeX files), and permission to install the program on all the machines at your site. Contact: patricia monger monger@mcmaster.ca PlotMTV ------- tanqueray.berkeley.edu : /pub/Plotmtv1.3.1.tar.Z (~1 MB) - with source Tested on IBM RS6000, SPARCs and HP s700, and other machines with Unix/X11 (eg. Linux) The program can do 2D and 3D line/scatter plots, vector plots, as well as contour plots. Contours can be plotted from regular rectangular meshes, triangular meshes, as well as random data. The X11 routines use the X11R4 Xlib library, but the program has reportedly been compiled successfully on X11R5. The program reads in data in the MTVDAT format and plots each dataset in the data-file in turn. Each plot comes with a simple but functional Graphical User Interface, which allows users to zoom in or pan to areas of interest on the plot, or to toggle between 2D and 3D plots, or to rotate 3D plots. The plots may then be sent directly to a grayscale or color PostScript printer for hard-copy output. Author: Kenny Toh TRIUMF/PLOTDATA ---------------- [ For VAX/VMS. It's believed that's available free or at extremely low cost ] Contact: TRIUMF 4004 Wesbrook Mall Vancouver, British Columbia Canada V6T 2A3 e-mail: CHUMA@TRIUMF.CA +Mtrace / xplot +-------------- + Mtrace2 is a user-friendly, Motif,Postscript plotter based on the xplot + package. + + ftp loasil.univ-lille1.fr [134.206.50.4] + login anonymous + passwd ... + + cd MOTIF/MTRACE_3.0 + bin + mget ... + + Binaries + Mtrace2.ALPHA.Z DEC ALPHA + Mtrace2.RS6000.Z IBM RS6000 + Mtrace2.HP700.Z HP 9000/700 + Mtrace2.SG.Z SILICON GRAPHICS + + Motif allows to modify all the panels and buttons color of Mtrace2 ========================================================================== End of Part 2 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 From tusol.cs.trinity.edu!swrinde!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!Munich.Germany.EU.net!ecrc!news.forth.gr!news.ntua.gr!nfotis Thu Oct 6 14:16:28 1994 Newsgroups: comp.graphics,comp.answers,news.answers Path: tusol.cs.trinity.edu!swrinde!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 3/6] Message-ID: Followup-To: poster Lines: 927 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 17:19:45 GMT Approved: news-answers-request@MIT.Edu Xref: tusol.cs.trinity.edu comp.graphics:3091 comp.answers:1004 news.answers:3322 Archive-name: graphics/resources-list/part3 Last-modified: 1994/10/03 Computer Graphics Resource Listing : BIWEEKLY POSTING [ PART 3/6 ] ===================================================== Last Change : 3 Octomber 1994 Subject: 9. Image analysis software - Image processing and display ========================================================== PC and Mac-based tools (multi-platform software) ====================== IMDISP ------ IMDISP Written at JPL and other NASA sites. Can do simple display, enhancing, smoothing and so on. Works with the FITS and VICAR/PDS data formats of NASA. Can read TIFF images, if you know their dimensions [PC and Macs] LabVIEW 2 --------- LabVIEW is used as a framework for image processing tools. It provides a graphical programming environment using block diagram sketch is the "program" with graphical elements representing the programming elements. Hundreds of functions are already available and are connected using a wiring tool to create the block diagram (program). Functions that the block diagrams represent include digital signal processing and filtering, numerical analysis, statistics, etc. The tool allows any Virtual Instrument (VI, a software file that looks and acts like a real laboratory instrument) to be used as a part of any other virtual instrument. National Instruments markets plug-in digital signal processing (DSP) boards for Macintoshs and PC compatables that allow real-time acquisition and analysis at a personal computer. New software tools for DSP are allowing engineers to harness the power of this technology. The tools range from low-level debugging software to high-level block diagram development software. There are three levels of DSP programming associated with the NB-DSP2300 board and LabVIEW: Use of the NB-DSP2300 Analysis Library: FFTs, power spectra, filters routines callable from THINK C and Macintosh Programers Workshop (MPW) C that execute on the NB-DSP2300 board. There is an analysis Virtual Interface Library of ready-to-use VIs optimized for the NB-DSP2300. Use of the National Instruments Developers Toolkit that includes an optimizing C compiler, an assembler and a linker for low-level programming of the DSP hardware. This approach offers the highest level of performance but is the must difficult in terms of ease of use. Use of the National Instruments Interface Kit software package which has utility functions for memory management data communications and downloading code to the NB-DSP2300 board. (This is the easiest route for the development of custom code.) Ultimage Concept VI ------------------- Concept VI by Graftek-France is a family of image processing Virtual Instruments (VIs) that give LabVIEW 2 (described above) users high-end tools for designing, integrating and monitoring imaging control systems. A VI is a software file that looks and acts like a real laboratory instrument. Typical applications for Concept VI include thermography, surveillance, machine vision, production testing, biomedical imaging, electronic microscopy and remote sensing. Ultimage Concept VI addresses applications which require further qualitative and quantitative analysis. It includes a complete set of functions for image enhancement, histogram equalization, spatial and frequency filtering, isolation of features, thresholding, mathematical morphology analysis, density measurement, object counting, sizing and characterization. The program loads images with a minimum resolution of 64 by 64, a pixel depth of 8, 16, or 32 bits, and one image plane. Standard input and output formats include PICT, TIFF, SATIE, and AIPD. Other formats can be imported. Image enhancement features include lookup table transformations, spatial linear and non-linear filters, frequency filtering, arithmetic and logic operations, and geometric transformations, among others. Morphological transformations include erosion, dilation, opening, closing, hole removal, object separation, and extraction of skeletons, among others. Quantitative analysis provides for objects' detection, measurement, and morphological distribution. Measures include area, perimeter, center of gravity, moment of inertia, orientation, length of relevant chords, and shape factors and equivalence. Measures are saved in ASCII format. The program also provides for macro scripting and integration of custom modules. A 3-D view command plots a perspective data graph where image intensity is depicted as mountains or valleys in the plot. The histogram tool can be plotted with either a linear or logarithmic scale. The twenty-eight arithmetic and logical operations provide for: masking and averaging sections of images, noise removal, making comparisons, etc. There are 13 spatial filters that alter pixel intensities based on local intensity. These include high-pass filters for contrast and outlines. The frequency data resulting from FFT analysis can be displayed as either the (real , imaginary ) components or the (phase, magnitude) data. The morphological transformations are useful for data sharpening and defining objects or for removing artifacts. The transformations include: thresholding, eroding, dilating and even hole filling. The program's quantitative analysis measurements include: area, perimeter, center of mass, object counts, and angle between points. GTFS, Inc. 2455 Bennett Valley Road #100C Santa Rosa, CA 95494 707-579-1733 IPLab Spectrum -------------- IPLAB Spectrum supports image processing and analysis but lacks the morphology and quantitative analysis features provided by Graftek-FranceUs Ultimage Concept VI. Using scripting tools, the user tells the system the operations to be performed. The problem is that far too many basic operations require manual intervention. The tool supports: FFTs, 16 arithmetic operations for pixel alteration, and a movie command for cycling through windows. ITEX ---- ITEX image processing software from Imaging Technology Incorporated is an industry-standard C language subroutine library for image enhancement and manipulation. Designed to accelerate applications development, the ITEX software package contains hundreds of field-proven image processing algorithms. All subroutines are accessed through user-developed application software written for operation under such operating systems as MS-DOS, UNIX, SUN OS, OS/9, and VxWorks. ITEX is equipped with a command line interpreter that further assists in speeding application development by providing an interactive environment for working out image processing scenarios. ITEX software includes operations for input and output pixel transformations, image save and restore, graphics and text annotation functions, area and geometric functions, linear and non-linear spatial filtering, and support for real-time image convolutions. Application-Specific ITEX ------------------------- Free software evaluation utilities for image analysis and machine vision feasibility studies are offered by Imaging Technology Incorporated. These evaluation utilities provide a simple point-and-click MS Windows graphical user interface (GUI) from which to evaluate highly robust grayscale pattern recognition, quantitative image (blob) analysis, and industrial character recognition (OCR) software libraries offered by the company. The evaluation utilities speed feasibility studies and help reduce the cost of application software development. These utilities, which require no special equipment to operate, allow development engineers to breeze through the feasibility process on prestored TIFF images and quickly start working on solving their applications. The only equipment necessary to operate these utilities is a 386 or 486 personal computer AT, Windows 3.0 or 3.1, a mouse, and an eight-bit SuperVGA card. No additional hardware or software is required. Each evaluation utility comes complete with a tutorial that guides the user through the processes of the software package. Absolutely no prior experience with image analysis algorithms is necessary in order to operate these utilities. To further assist and instruct the user, an on-line Help facility is incorporated to answer questions along the way. Contact: Imaging Technology Inc, 55 Middlesex Tpk, Bedford, MA 01730, (800) 333-3035 e-mail: theresa@imaging.com (Theresa M. Meuse) [ They sell also a VME-based video frame grabber in resolutions up to 1024x768 pixels non-interlaced, or up to 1024x1024 pixels interlaced. An ISA/EISA-based modular board-set is provided also for PC-only environment, which has modules for genlocking, NTSC/PAL 24-bit grabber, variable-scan frame grabber, and a 30fps monchrome frame grabber - nfotis ] Macintosh-based tools ===================== NCSA Image, NCSA PalEdit and more --------------------------------- NCSA provides a whole suite of public-domain visualization tools for the Macintosh, primarily aimed at researchers wanting to visualize results from numerical modelling calculations. These applications, documentation, and source code are available for anonymous ftp from ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu. Commercial versions of the NCSA programs have been developed by Spyglass. Spyglass, Inc. 701 Devonshire Drive Champaign, IL 61820 (217) 355-6000 fax: 217 355 8925 NIH IMAGE --------- Available at alw.nih.gov (128.231.128.7) or (preferably) zippy.nimh.nih.gov [128.231.98.32], directory:/pub/image. It has painting and image manipulation tools, a macro language, tools for measuring areas, distances and angles, and for counting things. Using a frame grabber card, it can record sequences of images to be played back as a movie. It can invoke user-defined convolution matrix filters, such as Gaussian. It can import raw data in tab-delimited ASCII, or as 1 or 2-byte quantities. It also does histograms and even 3-D plots. It is limited to 8-bits/pixel, though the 8 bits map into a color lookup table. It runs on any Mac that has a 256-color screen and a FPU (or get the NonFPU version from zippy.nimh.nih.gov) PhotoMac -------- Data Translation, Inc. 100 Locke Dr. Marlboro, MA 01752 508-481-3700 PhotoPress ---------- Blue Solutions 3039 Marigold Place Thousand Oaks, CA 91360 805-492-9973 PixelTools and TCL-Image ------------------------ "Complete family of PixelTools (hardware accelerator and applications software) for scientific image processing and analysis. Video-rate capture, display, processing, and analysis of high-resolution monochromatic and color images. Includes C source code." TCL-Image: "Software package for scientific, quantitative image processing and analysis. It provides a complete language for the capture, enhancement, and extraction of quantitative information from gray-scale images. TCL_Image has over 200 functions for image processing, and contains the other elements needed in a full programming language for algorithm development -- variables and control structures. It is easily extensible through "script" (or indirect command) files. These script files are simply text files that contain TCL-Image commands. They are executed as normal commands and include the ability to pass parameters. The direct capture of video images is supported via popular frame grabber boards. TCL-Image comes with the I-View utility that provides conversion between common image file types, such as PICT2 and TIFF." Perceptics 725 Pellissippi Parkway Knoxville, TN 37933 615-966-9200 Satellite Image Workshop ------------------------ It comes with a number of satellite pictures (raw data) and does all sorts of image enhancing on it. You'll need at least a Mac II with co- processor; a 256 color display and a large harddisk. The program doesn't run under system 7.x.ATE1 V1 In the documentation the contact address is given as: Liz Smith, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, MS 300-323, 4800 Oak Grove Dr,.Pasadena, CA 91109 (818) 354-6980 Visualization Workbench ----------------------- "An electronic imaging software system that performs interactive image analysis and scientific 2D and 3D plotting." Paragon Imagine 171 Lincoln St. Lowell, MA 01852 508-441-2112 Adobe Photoshop --------------- The tool supports Rtrue colorS with 24-bit images or 256 levels of grey scale. Once an image has been imported it can be Rre-touchedS with various editing tools typical of those used in Macintosh-based RpaintS applications. These include an eraser, pencil, brush and air brush. Advanced RpasteS tools that control the interaction between a pasted selection and the receiving site have also been incorporated. For example, all red pixels in a selection can easily be preventing from being pasted. Photoshop has transparencies ranging from 0 to 100%, allowing you to create ghost overlays. RPhoto-editingS tools include control of the brightness and contrast, color balancing, hue/saturation modification and spectrum equalization. Images can be subjected to various signal processing algorithms to smooth or sharpen the image, blur edges, or locate edges. Image scaling is also supported. For storage savings, the images can be compressed using standard algorithms, including externally supplied compression such as JPEG, availlable from Storm Technologies. The latest version of Adobe Photoshop supports the import of numerous image formats including: EPSF, EPSF, TIFF, PICT resource, Amiga IFF/ILBM, CompuServe GIF, MacPaint, PIXAR, PixelPaint, Scitex CT, TGA and ThunderScan.. Adobe Systems, Inc. 1585 Charlestown Road PO Box 7900 Mountain View, CA 94039-7900 415-961-4400 ColorStudio and ImageStudio --------------------------- ColorStudio is an image-editing and paint package from Letraset that has more features than Adobe Photoshop but is decidedly more complex and therefore more difficult to use. Several steps are often required to accomplish that which can be done in a single step using Photoshop. The application requires a great deal of available disk space as one can easily end up with images in the 30 MB range. The program provides a variety of powerful selection tools including the "auto selection tool" which lets the user choose image areas on the basis of color, close hues, color range and mask. ImageStudio: Don't know... Letraset USA 40 Eisenhower Drive Paramus, NJ 07653 201-845-6100 Dapple Systems -------------- "High resolution image analysis software provides processing tools to work with multiple images, enhance and edit, and measure a variety of global or feature parameters, and interpret the data." Dapple Systems, 355 W. Olive Ave, #100 Sunnyvale, CA 94086 408-733-3283 Digital Darkroom ---------------- The latest release of Digital Darkroom has five new selection and editing tools for enhancing images. One such feature allows the user to select part of an image simply by "painting" it. A new polyline selection tool creates a selection tool for single pixel wide selections. A brush lets the operator "paint" with a selected portion of the image. Note that this is not a true color image enhancement tool. This tool should be used when the user intends to operate in grey-scale images only. It should be noted that Digital Darkroom is not as powerful as either Adobe Photoshop or ColorStudio. Silicon Beach Software 9770 Carroll Ctr. Rd., Suite J San Diego, CA 92126 619-695-6956 Dimple ------ It is compatible with system 6.05 and system 7.0 , requires Mac LC or II series with 256 colours, with a recommended min of 6Mb of ram. It has the capability of reading Erdas files. Functions include; image enhancement, 3D and contour plots, image statistics, supervised and unsupervised classification, PCA and other image transformations. There is also a means (Image Operation Language or IOL) by which you can write your own transformations. There is no image rectification, however Dimple is compatable with MAPII. The latest version is 1.4 and it is in the beta stage of testing. Dimple was initially developed as a teaching tool and it is very good for this purpose." "Dimple runs on a colour Macintosh. It is a product still in its development phase.. i.e. it doesn't have all the inbuilt features of other packages, but is coming along nicely. It has its own inbuilt language for writing "programs" for processing an image, defining convolution filters etc. Dimple is a full mac application with pull down menus etc... It is unprotected software." Process Software Solutions, PO Box 2110, Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia. 2500. Phone 61 42 261757 Fax 61 42 264190. Enhance ------- Enhance has a RrulerS tool that supports measurements and additionally provides angle data. The tool has over 80 mathematical filter variations: "Laplacian, medium noise filter", etc. Files can be saved as either TIFF, PICT, EPSF or text (however EPSF files can't be imported). MicroFrontier 7650 Hickman Road Des Moines, IA 50322 515-270-8109 Image Analyst ------------- An image processing product for users who need to extract quantitative data from video images. Image Analyst lets users configure sophisticated image processing and measurement routines without the necessity of knowing a programming language. It is designed for such tasks at computing number and size of cells in images projected by video cameras attached to microscopes, or enhancing and measuring distances in radiographs. Image Analyst provides users with an array of field-proven video analysis techniques that enable them to easily assemble a sequence of instructions to enhance feature appearance; count objects; determine density, shape, size, position, or movement; perform object feature extraction; and conduct textural analysis automatically. Image Analyst works with either a framegrabber board and any standard video camera, or a disk-stored image. Within minutes, without the need for programming, the Image Analyst user can set up a process to identify and analyze any element of a image. Measurements and statistics can be automatically or semi-automatically generated from TIFF or PICT files or from captured video tape images. Image Analyst recognizes items in images based on their size, shape and position. The tool provides direct support for the Data Translation and Scion frame grabbers. A menu command allows for image capture from a VCR video camera or other NTSC or PAL devices. There are 2 types of files, the image itself and the related Sequence file that holds the processing, measurements and analysis that the user defines. Automated sequences are set up in Regions Of Interest (ROI) represented by movable, sizable boxes atop the image. Inside a ROI, the program can find the distance between two edges, the area of a shape, the thickness of a wall, etc. Image Analyst finds the center, edge and other positions automatically. The application also provides tools so that the user can work interactively to find the edge of object. It also supports histograms and a color look-up table (CLUT) tool. Automatix, Inc. 775 Middlesex Turnpike Billerica, MA 01821 508-667-7900 IPLab ----- Signal Analytics Corp. 374 Maple Ave. E Vienna, VA 22180 703-281-3277 FAX 703-281-2509 "Menu-driven image processing software that supports 24-bit color or pseudocolor/grayscale image display and manipulation." MAP II ------ Among the Mac GIS systems, MAP II distributed by John Wiley has integrated image analysis. IMAGE ----- from Stanford : Try anonymous ftp from sumex-aim.stanford.edu It has pd source for image v2, and ready to run code for a mac under image v3. Windows/DOS PC-based tools ========================== CCD --- Richard Berry's CCD imaging book for Willamon-Bell contains (optional?) disks with image manipulating software. Source code is included. ERDAS ----- "ERDAS will do all of the things you want: rectification, classification, transformations (canned & user-defined), overlays, filters, contrast enhancement, etc. ... I was using it on my thesis & then changed the topic a bit & that work became secondary." ERDAS, Inc. 2801 Buford Highway Suite 300 Atlanta, GA 30329 404-248-9000 FAX 404-248-9400 RSVGA ----- "I have been getting up to speed on a program called RSVGA available from Eidetic Digital Image Ltd. in British Columbia. Its for IBM PC's or clones, cheap (about $400) and does all the stuff Erdas does but is not as fast or as powerful, though I have had only limited experience with Erdas. I have used RSVGA with 6 of 7 Landsat bands and it is a good starter program except for the obtuse manual" IMAGINE-32 ---------- It's a 32 bit package [I suppose for PCs] called "Imagine32" or "Image32" The program does a modest amount of image processing --add, subtract, multiply, divide, display, and plot an x or y cut across the image. It can also display a number of images simultaneously. The company is CompuScope, in Santa Barbara, CA. PC Vista -------- [ NOTE: it's now available via anonymous FTP - machine flipper.berkeley.edu (128.32.178.54), directory pub/pcvista. Warning: no user interface, very minimal docs, etc. ] It was announced in the 1989 August edition of PASP. It is known to be available from Mike Richmond, whose email addresses have been richmond@bllac.berkeley.edu richmond@bkyast.berkeley.edu [ Latest address: richmond@spiff.Princeton.EDU ] and his s-mail address is: Michael Richmond,Astronomy Department, Campbell Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720 The latest version of PC-Vista, version 1.7, includes not only the source code and help files, but also a complete set of executable programs and a number of sample FITS images. If you do wish to use the source code, you will need Microsoft C, version 5.0 or later; other compilers may work, but will require substantial modifications. To receive the documentation and nine double-density (360K) floppies (or three quad-density 3-1/2 inch floppies (1.44M) with everything on them, just send a request for PC-Vista, together with your name and a US-Mail address, to Office of Technology Licensing 2150 Shattuck Ave., Suite 510 Berkeley, Ca. 94704 Include a check (Traveller's Checks are fine) or purchase order for $150.00 in U.S. dollars, if your address is inside the continental U.S., or $165.00 otherwise, made out to Regents of the University of California to cover duplication and mailing costs. SOFTWARE TOOLS -------------- It's a set of software "tools" put out by Canyon State Systems and Software. They are not free, but rather cheap at about $30 I heard. It will handle most all of the formats used by frame grabber software. MIRAGE ------ It's image processing software written by Jim Gunn at the Astrophysics Dept at Princeton. It will run on a PC among other platforms. It is a Forth based system - i.e. a Forth language with many image processing displaying functions built in. DATA TRANSLATION SOURCE BOOK ---------------------------- The Data Translation company in Massachusetts publishes a free book containing vendors of data analysis hardware and software which is compatible with Data Translation and other frame grabbers. Surely you can find much more PC-related stuff in it. MAXEN386 -------- A couple of Canadians have written a program named MAXEN386 which does maximum entropy image deconvolution. Their company is named Digital Signal Processing Software, or something like that, and the software is mentioned in an article in Astronomy Magazine, either Jan or Feb 92 (an article on CCD's vs film). JANDEL SCIENTIFIC (JAVA) ------------------------ Another software package (JAVA) is put out by Jandel Scientific. Jandel Scientific, 65 Koch Road, Corte Madera, CA 94925, (415) 924-8640, (800) 874-1888. Microbrian ---------- Runs on an MS dos platform and uses a 32 bit graphics card (Vista), or an about to be released version will support a number of super VGA cards. Its a full blown remote sensed data processing system.. It is menu driven (character based screen), but is does not use a windowed user interface. Its is hardware protected with a dongle. Mbrian = micro Barrier reef Image Anaysis System. It was developed by CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific & Industrial Organization) and is marketed/ supported by: MPA Australia (51 Lusher Road, Croydon, Victoria tel + 61 3 724 4488 fax +61 3 724 4455) There are educational and commercial prices, but be prepared to set aside $A10k for the first educational licence. Subsequent ones come cheaper (they need to!) It has installed sites worldwide. It is widely used at ANU. MicroImage ---------- The remote sensing lab here at Dartmouth currently uses Terra-Mar's MicroImage, on 486 PCs with some fancy display hardware. Terra-Mar Resource Information Services, Inc. 1937 Landings Drive Mountain View, CA 94043 415-964-6900 FAX 415-964-5430 VIDEOSCAN --------- [ Contact Club@spektr.msk.su (Koltovoy Nikolay Alexeevich) - they have available software, frame grabbers, A/D converters, real-time image processor ] TIM --- TIM for Windows is a package for scientific image processing, which runs on a PC under MS-Windows 3.1. It is especially suited for image preprocessing and data extraction (image in, data out). It has: - 200+ image processing functions, including user definable convolutions, non-linear filters, morphology, FFT - menus, dialog boxes, browse and support windows - a compiled command language for making procedures - facilities for adding C-written functions to the program - a rich, context sensitive help system - support for several frame grabbers The program is fast*) and has moderate system requirements**). A functional demo version can be obtained from CICA***). This package contains addresses to refer to for pricing and ordering details. *) Abingdon Cross benchmark on a 486DX2-50: 0.8 sec **) Minimum requirements: MS-Windows 3.1, Memory: 4MB, disk: 4MB; 386SX A 800x600 or 1024x768 video display @ 256 colours is recommended ***) Anonymous FTP to: ftp.cica.indiana.edu; directory pub.pc.win3.demo Contact: Robert J. Ekkers Unix-based tools ================ IRAF (Image Reduction and Analysis Facility) -------------------------------------------- Developed in the National Optical Astronomy Observatory, Kitt Peak AZ It is free, you can ftp it from tucana.noao.edu [140.252.1.1] and complement it with STSDAS from stsci.edu [130.167.1.2]. Email to iraf@noao.edu for more details. Apparently this is one of the _de facto_ standards in the astronomical image community. They issue a newsletter also. They seem to support very well their users. Works with VMS also last I heard, and practically has its own shell on top of the VMS/Unix shells. It's suggested that you get a copy of saoimage for display under X windows. Very flexible/extendable -- tons (literally 3 linear feet) of documentation for the general user, skilled user, and programmer. ALV --- A Sun-specific image toolkit. Version 2.0.6 posted to comp.sources.sun on 11dec89. Also available via email to alv-users-request@cs.bris.ac.uk. AIPS ---- Astronomical Image Processing System. Contact: aipsmail@nrao.edu (also see the UseNet Newsgroups alt.sci.astro.aips and sci.astro.fits) Built by NRAO (National Radio Astronomy Observatory, HQ in Charlottesville, VA, sites in NM, AZ, WV). Software distributed by 9-track, Exabyte, DAT, or (non-anonymous) internet ftp. Documentation (PostScript mostly) available via anonymous ftp to baboon.cv.nrao.edu (192.33.115.103), directory pub/aips and pub/aips/TEXT/PUBL. Installation requires building the system and thus a Fortran and C compiler. This package can read and write FITS data (see sci.astro.fits), and is primarily for reduction, analysis, and image enhancement of Radio Astronomy data from radio telescopes, particularly the Very Large Array (VLA), a synthesis instrument. It consists of almost 300 programs that do everything from copying data to sophisticated deconvolution, e.g. via maximum entropy. There is an X11-based Image tool (XAS) and a tek-compatible xterm-based graphics tool built into AIPS. The XAS tool is modelled after the hardware functionality of the International Imaging Systems model 70 display unit and can do image arithmetic, etc. The code is mostly Fortran 77 with some system C language modules, and is available for Suns, IBM RS/6000, Dec/Ultrix, Convex, Cray (Unicos), and Alliant with support planned for HP-9000/7xx, Solaris 2.1, and maybe SGI. There is currently a project - "AIPS++" - underway to rewrite the algorithmic functionality of AIPS in a modern setting, using C++ and an object oriented approach. Whereas AIPS is proprietary code (licensed for free to non-profit institutions) owner by NRAO and the NSF, AIPS++ will be in the public domain at some level, as it is an international effort with contributions from the US, Canada, England, the Netherlands, India, and Australia to name a few. LABOimage --------- (version 4.0 is out for X11) It's written in C, and currently runs on Sun 3/xxx, Sun 4/xxx (OS3.5, 4.0 and 4.0.3) under SunView. The expert system for image segmentation is written in Allegro Common Lisp. It was used on the following domains: computer science (image analysis), medicine, biology, physics. It is distributed free of charge (source code). Available via anonymous FTP at ftp.ads.com (128.229.30.16), in pub/VISION-LIST-ARCHIVE/SHAREWARE/LaboImage_* Contact: Prof. Thierry Pun, Computer Vision Group Computing Science Center, U-Geneva 12, rue du Lac, CH-1207 Geneva SWITZERLAND Phone : +41(22) 787 65 82; fax: +41(22) 735 39 05 E-mail: pun@cui.unige.ch or pun@cgeuge51.bitnet Figaro ------ It was originally made for VMS, and can be obtained from Keith Shortridge in Australia (ks@aaoepp.aao.gov.au) and for Unix from Sam Southard at Caltech (sns@deimos.caltech.edu). It's about 110Mbytes on a Sun. KHOROS ------ Moved to the Scientific Visualization category below Vista ----- The "real thing" is available via anonymous ftp from lowell.edu. Email to vista@lowell.edu for more details. Total size less than 20Mbytes. DISIMP ------ (Device Independent Software for Image Processing) is a powerful system providing both user friendliness and high functionality in interactive times. Feature Description DISIMP incorporates a rich library of image processing utilities and spatial data options. All functions can be easily accessed via the DISIMP executive. This menu is modular in design and groups image processes by their function. Such a logical structure means that complicated processes are simply a progression through a series of modules. Processes include image rectification, classification (unsupervised and supervised), intensity transformations, three dimensional display and Principal Component Analysis. DISIMP also supports the more simple and effective enhancement techniques of filtering, band subtraction and ratioing. Host Configuration Requirements Running on UNIX workstations, DISIMP is capable of processing the more computational intensive techniques in interactive processing times. DISIMP is available in both Runtime and Programmer's environments. Using the Programmers environment, utilities can be developed for specific applications programs. Graphics are governed by an icon-based Display Panel which allows quick enhancments of a displayed image. Manipulations of Look Up Tables, colour stretches, changes to histograms, zooming and panning can be interactively driven through this control. A range of geographic projections enables DISIMP to integrate data of image, graphic and textual types. Images can be rectified by a number of coordinate systems, providing the true geographic knowledge essential for ground truthing. Overlays of grids, text and vector data can be added to further enhance referenced imagery. The system is a flexible package allowing users of various skill levels to determine their own working environment, including the amount of help required. DISIMP comes fully configured with no optional extras. The purchase price includes all functionality required for professional processing of remote sensed data. For further information, please contact: The Business Manager, CLOUGH Engineering Group Systems Division, 627 Chapel Street, South Yarra, Australia 3141. Telephone: +61 3 825 5555 Fax: +61 3 826 6463 Global Imaging Software ----------------------- "We use Global Imaging Software to process AVHRR data, from the dish to the final display. Select a chunk of five band data from a pass, automatic navigation, calibrate it to Albedo and Temp, convert that to byte, register it to predesigned window, all relatively automatically and carefree. It has no classification routines to speak of, but it isn't that difficult to write your own with their programmer's module. Very small operation: one designs, one codes, one sells. Been around for a number of years, sold to Weather Service and Navy. Runs on HP9000 with HP-UX. Supports 24-bit display" HIPS ---- (Human Information Processing Laboratory's Image Processing System) Michael Landy co-wrote and sell a general-purpose package for image processing which has been used for basically all the usual image processing applications (robotics, medical, satellite, engineering, oil exploration, etc.). It is called HIPS, and deals with sequences of multiband images in the same way it deals with single images. It has been growing since we first wrote it, both by additions from us as well as a huge user-contributed library. Feature description HIPS is a set of image processing modules which together provide a powerful suite of tools for those interested in research,