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, system development and teaching. It handles sequences of images (movies) in precisely the same manner as single frames. Programs and subroutines have been developed for simple image transformations, filtering, convolution, Fourier and other transform processing, edge detection and line drawing manipulation, digital image compression and transmission methods, noise generation, and image statistics computation. Over 150 such image transformation programs have been developed. As a result, almost any image processing task can be performed quickly and conveniently. Additionally, HIPS allows users to easily integrate their own custom routines. New users become effective using HIPS on their first day. HIPS features images that are self-documenting. Each image stored in the system contains a history of the transformations that have been applied to that image. HIPS includes a small set of subroutines which primarily deals with a standardized image sequence header, and a large library of image transformation tools in the form of UNIX ``filters''. It comes complete with source code, on-line manual pages, and on-line documentation. Host Configuration Requirements Originally developed at New York University, HIPS now represents one of the most extensive and flexible vision and image processing environments currently available. It runs under the UNIX operating system. It is modular and flexible, provides automatic documentation of its actions, and is almost entirely independent of special equipment. HIPS is now in use on a variety of computers including Vax and Microvax, Sun, Apollo, Masscomp, NCR Tower, Iris, IBM AT, etc. For image display and input, drivers are supplied for the Grinnell and Adage (Ikonas) image processors, and the Sun-2, Sun-3, Sun- 4, and Sun-386i consoles. We also supply user-contributed drivers for a number of other framestores and windowing packages (Sun gfx, Sun console, Matrox VIP-1024, ITI IP-512, Lexidata, Macintosh II, X windowing system, and Iris). The Hipsaddon package includes an interface for the CRS-4000. It is a simple matter to interface HIPS with other frame- stores, and we can put interested users in touch with users who have interfaced HIPS with the Arlunya and Datacube Max- Video. HIPS can be easily adapted for other image display devices because 98% of HIPS is machine independent. Availability HIPS has proven itself a highly flexible system, both as an interactive research tool, and for more production- oriented tasks. It is both easy to use, and quickly adapted and extended to new uses. HIPS is supplied on magnetic tape in UNIX tar format (either reel- to-reel or Sun cartridge), and comes with source code, libraries, a library of convolu- tion masks, and on-line documentation and manual pages. Michael Landy SharpImage Software P.O. Box 373, Prince Street Station New York, NY 10012-0007 Voice: (212) 998-7857 Fax: (212) 995-4011 msl@cns.nyu.edu MIRA ---- [ Please DON'T confuse that with the Thalmanns animation system from Montreal. These are altogether different beasts! - nfotis ] MIRA stands for Microcomputer Image Reduction and Analysis. MIRA gives workstation level performance on 386/486 DOS computers using SVGA cards in 256 color modes up to 1024x768. MIRA contains a very handsome/functional GUI which is mouse and keystroke operated. MIRA reads/writes TIFF and FITS formats, native formats of a number of CCD cameras, and uncompressed binary images in byte, short integer, and 4-byte real pixel format in 1- or 2- dimensions. The result of an image processing operation can be short integer or real pixels, or the same as that of the input image. MIRA does the operation using short or floating point arithmetic to maintain the precision and accuracy of the pixel format. Over 100 functions are hand-coded in assembly language for maximum speed on the Intel hardware. The entire graphical interface is also written in assembly language to maximize the speed of windowing operations. Windows for 2-d image and 1-d image/data display and analysis have dedicated cursors which read position and value value in real time as you move the mouse. There are also smooth, real time contrast and brightness stretch and panning of a magnified portion of the displayed image(s), all operated by the mouse. A wide selection of grayscale, pseudocolor, and random palettes is provided, and other palettes can be generated. Supported functions include such niceties as the following: o image & image: + - / * interpolation o image & constant: + - / * o unary operations: abs value, polynomial of pixel value, chs, 1/x, log, byteswap, clip values at upper/lower limits, short->real or real->short. o combine images by mean, median, mode, or sum of pixel values, with or without autoscaling to mean, median, or mode of an image section. o convolutions/filters: Laplacian, Sobel edge operator, directional gradient, line, Gaussian, elliptical and rectangular equal weight filters, unsharp masking, median filters, user defined filter kernel. Ellipse, rectangle, line, gradient, Gaussian, and user defined filters can be rotated to any specified angle. o CCD data reduction: flat fielding, dark subtraction, column over/underscan bias removal, remove bad pixels and column defects, normalize to region target mean, median, or modal value. o create subimage, mosaic m x n 1-d or 2-d images to get larger image, collapse 2-d image into 1-d image. o plot 1-d section or collapsed section of 2-d image, plot histogram of region of an image. o review/change image information/header data, rename keywords, plot keyword values for a set of images. o luminance/photometry: elliptical or circular aperture photometry, brightness profile, isophotal photometry between set of upper & lower luminances, area and luminance inside traced polygon. Interactive background fitting and removal from part or all of image, fit elliptical aperture shape to image isophotes. o interactive with 2-d image: contrast/brightness, x- y- or diagonal plot of pixel values, distance between two points, compute region stats,` centroid, pan to x,y location or image center, zoom 1/16 to 10 times, change cursor to rectangle crosshair, full image crosshair, or off, and adjust cursor size on image. Select linear, log or gamma transfer function or histogram equalization. o interactive or specified image offset computation and re-sampling for registration. o interactive with 1-d image: zoom in x- y- or both in steps of 1/2 or 2 times current, re-center plot, or enlarge a framed area. 4 plot buffers can be cycled through. Interactive data analysis: polynomial fitting, point deletion, undelete, change value, point weighting, linear and quadratic loess and binomial smoothing, revert to unit point weights or original data buffer, substitute results into data buffer for pass back to calling function. Dump data buffer (+ overlays and error bars) to file or printer. Change to user specified coordinate system. o Tricolor image combination and display, hardcopy halftone printout to HP-PCL compatible printers (Laserjet, deskjet, etc.) o Documentation is over 300 pages in custom vinyl binder. Cost: 995 $USD/copy Available from: Axiom Research, Inc. Box 44162 Tucson, AZ 85733 (602) 791-2864 phone/fax. international marketing rep: Saguaro Scientific Corporation, Tucson, Arizona. SPHINX ------ Satellite Image Processing under Unix/X11. Specializes in: - Image Analysis & Processing (statistical and mathematical filtering operations, such as Fourier transforms, convolution product or principal component analyses) - Satellite Spectra & Orbit Analysis (e.g., GOES, METEOSAT, NOAA, Spot etc.) - Easy External Program Interfacing - Quick Quality Presentation A TEST VERSION OF SPHINX IS AVAILABLE AT loasil.citilille.fr (134.206.50.4) anonymous (bin : cd SPHINX : get ALL_SPHINX.tar.Z) Developers: Laboratoire d'Optique Atmospherique (LOA) of the Universite de Lille, France Support and Questions: sphinx@loasil.citilille.fr ITEX ---- Please see the entry in the DOS-based systems. Their VME hardware also works in Unix environments. ========================================================================== End of Part 3 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 14:16:37 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 4/6] Message-ID: Followup-To: poster Lines: 908 Sender: nfotis@theseas.ntua.gr (Nick C. Fotis) Reply-To: nfotis@theseas.ntua.gr (Nick (Nikolaos) Fotis) Organization: National Technical University of Athens, Greece Date: Mon, 3 Oct 1994 17:20:07 GMT Approved: news-answers-request@MIT.Edu Xref: tusol.cs.trinity.edu comp.graphics:3092 comp.answers:1005 news.answers:3323 Archive-name: graphics/resources-list/part4 Last-modified: 1994/10/03 Computer Graphics Resource Listing : BIWEEKLY POSTING [ PART 4/6 ] ===================================================== Last Change : 3 Octomber 1994 Subject: 10. Scene generators/geographical data/Maps/Data files ====================================================== DEMs (Digital Elevation Models) ------------------------------- DEMs (Digital Elevation Models) as well as other cartographic data [huge] is available from spectrum.xerox.com [192.70.225.78], /pub/map. Contact: Lee Moore -- Webster Research Center, Xerox Corp. -- Voice: +1 (716) 422 2496 Arpa, Internet: Moore.Wbst128@Xerox.Com [ Check also on ncgia.ucsb.edu (128.111.254.105), /pub/dems glis.cr.usgs.gov (152.61.192.54) (telnet.. login as guest) resdgs1.er.usgs.gov (130.11.52.55) (lots of DEM files in /DEM) -- nfotis ] --- + Also, there's a World Wide Web (WWW) site for DEM, DLG, and other + digital data supplied by the USGS. The agency is called EROS and + their home page is at http://sun1.cr.usgs.gov/eros-home.html. + The page for the digitial data is at + http://sun1.cr.usgs.gov/doc/edchome/ndcdb/ndcdb.html. They + use imagemap to let users select data by clicking on various maps of the + US, which is a lot better than using the name of the 7.5 minute quads + to find digital data. They've also got other stuff there, but you + might want to check it out yourself. --- Many of these files are also available on CD-ROM selled by USGS: "1:2,000,000 scale Digital Line Graph (DLG) Data". Contains datas for all 50 states. Price is about $28, call to or visit in offices in Menlo Park, in Reston, Virginia (800-USA-MAPS). --- The Data User Services Division of the Bureau of the Census also has data on CD-ROM (TSO standard format) that is derived from USGS 1:100,000 map data. Call (301) 763-4100 for more info or they have a BBS at (301) 763-1568. --- [ From Dr.Dobbs #198 March 1993: ] "The U.S. Defense Mapping Agency, in cooperation with their counterpart agencies in CANADA, the U.K., and Australia, have released the Digital Chart of the World (DCW). This chart consists of over 1.5 gigabytes of reasonable quality vector data distributed on four CD-ROMS. .... includes coastlines, rivers, roads, railrays, airports,cities, towns, spot elevations, and depths, and over 100,000 place names." It is ISO9660 compatible and only $200.00 available from: U.S. Geological Survey P.O. Box 25286 Denver Federal Center Denver, CO 80225 Digital Distribution Services Energy, Mines, and Resources Canada 615 Booth Street Ottawa, ON K1A 0E9 Canada Director General of Military Survey (Survey 3) Elmwood Avenue Feltham, Middlesex TW13 7AH United Kingdom Director of Survey, Australian Army Department of Defense Campbell Park Offices (CP2-4-24) Campbell ACT 2601 Australia ------ Earth Coastlines ---------------- These files are available by anonymous FTP from the SimTel Software Repository primary mirror site OAK.Oakland.Edu (141.210.10.117) and its mirrors. Directory pub/msdos/autocad/ Filename Type Length Date Description ============================================== wrldmaps.zip B 64300 930826 Create maps in AutoCAD using WORLDMAP data Directory pub/msdos/worldmap/ Filename Type Length Date Description ============================================== africa.zip B 52788 880514 World Maps for Africa - 1 of 7 antarcti.zip B 18702 880514 World Maps for Antarctica - 2 of 7 asia.zip B 110208 880514 World Maps for Asia - 3 of 7 australi.zip B 23215 880514 World Maps for Australia - 4 of 7 europe.zip B 95439 880514 World Maps for Europe - 5 of 7 northame.zip B 203291 880514 World Maps for North America - 6 of 7 southame.zip B 61503 880514 World Maps for South America - 7 of 7 Fractal Landscape Generators ---------------------------- Public Domain: ------------- Many people have written fractal landscape generators. for example for the Mac some of these generators were written by pdbourke@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz (Paul D. Bourke). Many of the programs are available from the FTP sites and mail archive servers. Check with Archie (a well known example is Fractint - besides fractal images, it generates height fields) Commercial: ---------- Vista Pro 3.0 for the Amiga from Virtual Reality Labs -- list price is about $100. Their address is: VRL 2341 Ganador court San Luis Obispo, CA 93401 Telephone or FAX (805) 545-8515 Scenery Animator 4 (also for the Amiga) is of the same caliber with Vista Pro 3, plus animation support (VistaPro needs separate programs in order to make animations). Check with: Natural Graphics P.O. Box 1963 Raklin, CA 95677 Phone (916) 624-1436 Don't forget to ask about companion programs and data disks/tapes. Both of these programs can read USGS DEMs, etc. Vista Pro 3 has been ported to the PCs. CIA World Map II ---------------- [ NOTE: this database is quite out of date, and not topologically structured. If you need a standard for world cartographic data, wait for the Digital Chart of the World. This 1:1M database has been produced from the Defense Mapping Agency's ONCs and will be available, together with searching and viewing software, on a number of CD-ROMs later this summer. ] Check into SEPFTP.STANFORD.EDU and UCSD.EDU (see ftp list above) The CIA database consists of coastlines, rivers and political boundaries in the form of line strokes. Also on sepftp.stanford.edu is a 720x360 array of elevation data, containing one ieee floating point number for every half degree longitude and latitude. A program for decoding the database, mfil, can be found on the machine pi1.arc.umn.edu (137.66.130.11). There's another program, which reads a compressed CIA Data Bank file and builds a PHIGS hierachical structure. It uses a PHIGS extension known as polyline sets for performance, but you can use regular polylines. Ask Joe Stewart . The raw data at Stanford require the vplot package to be able to view it. (was posted in comp.sources.unix). To be more exact, you'll have to compile just the libvplot routines, not the whole package. NCAR data --------- NCAR (National Center for Atmospheric Research) has many types of terrain data, ranging from elevation datasets at various resolutions, to information about soil types, vegetation, etc. This data is not free -- they charge from $40 to $90 or more, depending on the data volume and media (exabyte tape, 3480 cartridge, 9-track tape, IBM PC floppy, and FTP transfer are all available). Their data archive is mostly research oriented, not hobbyist oriented. For more information, email to ilana@ncar.ucar.edu. UNC data tapes with voxel data -------------- There are 2 "public domain" tapes with data for the comparison and testing of various volume rendering algorithms (mainly MRI and CT scans). These tapes are distributed by the SoftLab of UNC @ Chapel Hill. (softlab@cs.unc.edu) The data sets (volume I and II) are also available via anonymous FTP from omicron.cs.unc.edu [128.109.136.159] in pub/softlab/CHVRTD NASA ---- Many US agencies such as NASA publish CD-ROMs with many altimetry data from various space missions, eg. Viking for Mars, Magellan for Venus, etc. Especially for NASA, I would suggest to call the following address for more info: National Space Science Date Center Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, Maryland 20771 Telephone: (301) 286-6695 Email address: request@nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov The data catalog (*not* the data itself) is available online. Internet users can telnet to nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov (128.183.10.4) and log in as 'NODIS' (no password). You can also dial in at (301)-286-9000 (300, 1200, or 2400 baud, 8 bits, no parity, one stop). At the "Enter Number:" prompt, enter MD and carriage return. When the system responds "Call Complete," enter a few more carriage returns to get the "Username:" and log in as 'NODIS' (no password). NSSDCA is also an anonymous FTP site, but no comprehensive list of what's there is available at present. GOES images ----------- From: steve@NETSYS.COM (Steve Eigsti) We have the directories reorganized and the ftp is back up for digital GOES images. These are received with the SignaLink 200 Weather Receiver, which can now be configured for GOES, Meteosat, or GMS, and in the near future a TIROS version will be available. The images are in Sun rasterfile format. I changed the titles slightly so we could accomodate multiple sectors of the same resolution. The picture names are in a 8.3 DOS style format: the first 3 numbers are the day (000 to 365), the next 4 numbers are GMT, followed by i for infrared or v for visible. The extension has 2 letters of the sector name (e.g. 'CA' for California, etc.) and the last number is supposed to be the km resolution of each pixel; 0 means greater than 8 km (the visible full disk is 16 km/pixel) so we can keep the name to 8.3 size. The files with .001 are the latest raw data files and won't mean that much; the 'oa_table.dat' is orbit and attitude data from GOES. The IR images (10 bits raw data) are converted to the traditional 'ZA' curve and are 8 bits. Visible images are 6 bits -- we left justify and add 64 to brighten up a bit. As in the past, get the images with anonymous ftp to 'ftp.netsys.com' and they are in the /images directory. The /west directory has info about our systems, along with images of hurricanes Andrew (fl... files) and a 1 km shot of Iniki as it went across the island of Kauai. Earth Sciences Data ------------------- There's a listing of anonymous FTP sites for earth science data, including imagery. This listing is called "Earth Sciences Resources on Internet", and you can get it via anonymous FTP from csn.org [128.138.213.21] in the directory COGS under the name "internet.resources.earth.sci" Some sites include: aurelie.soest.hawaii.edu [128.171.151.121]: pub/avhrr/images - AVHRR images ames.arc.nasa.gov [128.102.18.3]: pub/SPACE/CDROM - images from Magellan and Viking missions etc. pub/SPACE/Index contains a listing of files available in the whole archive (the index is about 200K by itself). There's also an e-mail server for the people without Internet access: send a letter to archive-server@ames.arc.nasa.gov (or ames!archive-server). In the subject of your letter (or in the body), use commands like: send SPACE Index send SPACE SHUTTLE/ss01.23.91 (Capitalization is important! Only text files are handled by the email server at present) vab02.larc.nasa.gov [128.155.23.47]: pub/gifs/misc/landsat - Landsat photos in GIF and JPEG format [ It was shut down - nfotis; anyone has a copy of this archive?? ] Others ------ Daily values of river discharge, streamflow, and daily weather data is available from EarthInfo, 5541 Central Ave., Boulder CO 80301. These disks are expensive, around $500, but there are quantity discounts. (303) 938-1788. Check vmd.cso.uiuc.edu [128.174.5.98], the wx directory carries data regarding surface analysis, weather radar, and sat view pics in GIF format (updated hourly) pioneer.unm.edu [129.24.9.217] is the Space and Planetary Image Facility (located on the University of New Mexico campus) FTP server. It provides Anonymous FTP access to >150 CD-ROMS with data/images. A disk with earthquake data, topography, gravity, geopolitical info is available from NGDC (National Geophysical Data Center), 325 Broadway, Boulder, CO 80303. (303) 497-6958. EOSAT (at least in the US) now sells Landsat MSS data older than two years old for $200 per scene, and they have been talking about a similar deal for Landsat TM data. The MSS data are 4 bands, 80 meter resolution. Check out anonymous FTP to ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu in UNIX/PolyView/alpha-shape for a tool that creates convex hulls alpha-shapes (a generalization of the convex hull) from 3D point sets. The GRIPS II (Gov. Raster Image Processing Software) CD-ROM is available from CD-ROM Inc. at 1-800-821-5245 for $49. Code for viewing ADRG (Arc Digitised Raster Graphics) files is available on the GRIPS II CD-ROM. The U.S. Army Engineer Topographic Labs (Juan Perez) code is also available via FTP ( adrg.zip archive in spectrum.xerox.com ) NRCC range data --------------- Rioux M., Cournoyer L. "The NRCC Three-Dimensional Image Data Files", Tech. Report, CNRC 29077, National Research Council Canada, Ottawa, Canada, 1988 [ From what I understand, these data are from a laser range finder, and you can a copy for research purposes ] ========================================================================== Subject: 11. 3D scanners - Digitized 3D Data =================================== Cyberware --------- Cyberware manufactures a variety of color 3d scanners. The scanners are used to scan both live subjects and inanimate objects. Your whole body, face or fingerprint can be scanned in seconds. Machine parts, sculpture, implants, models and other objects are easily scanned as well. Most scanners also generate a color texture map. The CG models are provided in many popular formats, both polygonal and NURBS based. Software tools allow many scans to be combined, reduced in complexity, and converted for efficient modeling in your favorite animation, modeling and CAD software. Rapid prototyping is supported. Several service bureaus, including one at the factory in Monterey, offer scanning services. They can scan models and faces for you. Distributors and support worldwide. Contact for more information: Cyberware 8 Harris Court #3D Monterey, California 93940 U.S.A. Phone: +1-408-373-1441 Fax: +1-408-373-3582 E-Mail: daddle@netcom.com SGI demo software and datasets available via anonymous ftp from: taurus.cs.nps.navy.mil [131.120.1.13] in pub/dabro/cyberware_demo.tar.Z Polhemus -------- Polhemus makes a 6D input device (actually a couple of models) that senses position (3D) and *orientation* (+3D) based on electromagnetic field interference. This equipment is also incorporated in the VPL Dataglove. This hardware is also called ISOTRACK, from Keiser Aerospace. Ascension Technology makes a similar 3D input device. There is a company, Applied Sciences(?), that makes a 3D input device (position only) based on speed of sound triangulation. Viewpoint --------- A company that specializes in digitizing is Viewpoint. You can ask for Viewpoint's _free_ 100 page catalog full of ready to ship datasets from categories such as cars, anatomy, aircraft,sports, boats, trains, animals and others. Though these objects are quite expensive, the cataloge is nevertheless of interest for it has pictures of all the available objects in wireframe , polygon mesh. Contact: + Viewpoint DataLabs + 625 S. State St. + Orem, Utah 84058 # ph# 801-224-2222 + ph# 801-229-3000 fax# 801-224-2272 # 1-800-DATASET (328-2738) Perceptron ---------- They're marketing a scanning laser radar, which raster scans an area and returns both intensity and range data for each point. Contact: Perceptron 23855 Research Drive Farmington Hills, MI 48335 U.S. Phone: (313) 478-7710 FAX: (313) 478-7059 Immersion --------- They make the Immersion Personal Digitizer. The company just went into an agreement with Mira Imaging Inc. to make a bundle with the HyperSpace digitizing software. The software allows you to edit points, edges, and surfaces and exports files in standard file formats including DXF, Wavefront, Symbolics, Softimage, Alias, Super 3D, and Swivel 3D. Modeling tools supported include reflection, extrusion, surfaces of rotation, surfaces patches, auto-smoothing, auto-welding of vertices, and auto-lofting of surfaces. Models can be created as vertices, lines, polygons, and splines. Features of the Personal Digitizer: - pen-sized stylus is easy to manipulate - 6 degree of freedom system reports both POSITION and ORIENTATION of stylus - System can be used as high resolution digitizer or 3D Mouse - Includes Foot Pedal for Hands Free Data Entry - Self Calibrating system is easy to use: just turn it on and Digitize - Objects being digitized can rest on the large base provided, eliminating the need for complicated calibration procedures. - Noise Free: digital sensors provide noise free data - Accuracy: 0.035" (0.89 mm) - Resolution: 3600 points per square inch - Interface: Standard RS232 (serial), speeds up to 115.2kbps Contact: Immersion Corp. immersion@starconn.com P.O. Box 8669 (415) 960-6882 Palo Alto, CA 94309-8669 (415) 960-6977 (FAX) PHOTOGRAPHIC SYSTEMS -------------------- [ Not exactly 3D digitizers, but this technology could serve similar needs -- nfotis ] PhotoModeler ------------ This package does 3D data reconstruction from various photographic sources. It runs under Microsoft Windows. To produce a 3D model with PhotoModeler involves six steps: 1) plan a modeling project, 2) take the photographs, 3) mark features on the photos, 4) cross-reference these marks, 5) generate a 3D model, and 6) export the model as a DXF file. All these step can take from 10 minutes (a small six sided box captured with a monochrome low resolution digital camera and measured on a 33Mhz 486 class machine), to (typical) 10 hours (to measure and model a detailed historic school house with eight high resolution photographs and 400 primitives), plus the time to process and scan the film. Accuracy varies with many factors, but [from the text they sent me] sounds reasonably good. You're advised to contact the company for much more information: Eos Systems Inc. 2040 West 12th Ave. Vancouver, B.C., Canada V6J 2G2 Tel: (604) 732-6658 Fax: (604) 732-4716 Internet: info@eosvcr.wimsey.com 3D Express ---------- From: chrisw@fciad2.bsd.uchicago.edu (chris williams) 3D Express by Synthonics. It's a Windows program, you load two images, shot from between 30 and 60 degrees apart at the same height with a right angle reference in both pictures (say a carpenter's angle.) After establishing the reference from the angle you can deposit points in one image, and match it in the other image. The interface has four images, two full size and matching zoomed in images. It works pretty well, and has a lot of clever shortcuts to speed up model building. Now it is limited to the range of the two photos, but you can put one or more thick reference lines, shoot photos all around your head and stitch the models together. I'm not sure what it's price is, but it was selling at a Siggraph show special price of (US) $199.00. Here's their info: Synthonics Inc. 2801 Townsgate Road Suite 201 Weatlake Village, CA. 91361 (818) 707-6000 (voice) (818) 707-6016 (fax) (800) 497-0787 (orders) ================================================== Some addresses for companies that make digitizers: ================================================== Ascension Technology Bird, Flock of Birds, Big Bird: 6d trackers P.O. Box 527, Burlington, VT 05402 Phone: (802) 655-7879, Fax: (802) 655-5904 Polhemus Incorporated Digitizer: 6d trackers P.O. Box 560, Hercules Dr. Colchester, Vt. 05446 Tel: (802) 655-3159 Logitech Inc. Red Baron, ultrasonic 6D mouse 6506 Kaiser Dr. Freemont, CA 94555 Tel: (415) 795-8500w Shooting Star Technology Mechanical Headtracker 1921 Holdom Ave. Burnaby, B.C. Canada V5B 3W4 Tel: (604) 298-8574 Fax: (604) 298-8580 Spaceball Technologies, Inc. Spaceball: 6d stationary input device 600 Suffolk Street Lowell, MA, 01854 Tel: (508) 970-0330 Fax: (508) 970-0199 Tel in Mountain View: (415) 966-8123 Transfinite Systems Gold Brick: PowerGlove for Macintosh P.O. Box N MIT Branch Post Office Cambridge, MA 02139-0903 Tel: (617) 969-9570 email: D2002@AppleLink.Apple.com VPL Research, Inc. EyePhone: head-mounted display DataGlove: glove/hand input device VPL Research Inc. 950 Tower Lane 14th Floor Foster City, CA 94404 Tel: (415) 312-0200 Fax: (415) 312-9356 SimGraphics Engineering Flying Mouse: 6d input device 1137 Huntington Rd. Suite A-1 South Pasadena, CA 91030-4563 (213) 255-0900 ======================================================================== Subject: 12. Background imagery/textures/datafiles ========================================= First, check in the FTP places that are mentioned in the FAQ or in the FTP list above. 24-bit scanning: ---------------- Get a good 24-bit scanner, like Epson's. Suggested is an SCSI port for speed. Eric Haines had a suggestion in RT News, Volume 4, #3 : scan textures for wallpapers and floor coverings, etc. from doll house supplies. So you have a rather cheap way to scan patterns that don't have scaling troubles associated with real materials and scanning area. Books with textures: -------------------- Find some houses/books/magazines that carry photographic material. Educorp, 1-619-536-9999, sells CD-ROMS with various imagery - also a wide variety of stock art is available. Stock art from big-name stock art houses, such as Comstock, UNIPHOTO, and Metro Image Base, is available. In Italy, there's a company called Belvedere that makes such books for the purpose of clipping their pages for inclusion in your graphics work. Their address is: Edition Belvedere Co. Ltd., 00196 Rome Italy, Piazzale Flaminio, 19 Tel. (06) 360-44-88, Fax (06) 360-29-60 Texture Libraries: ================== Mannicin Sceptre ----------------- Mannikin Sceptre Graphics announced TexTiles, a set of 256x256 24-bit textures. Initial shipments in 24-bit IFF (for Amigas), soon in 24-bit TIFF format. Algorithmically built for tiled surfaces. SRP is $40 / volume (each volume = 40 images @ 10 disks). Demo disks for $5 are available. Contact: Mannikin Sceptre Graphics 1600 Indiana Ave. Winter Park, FL 32789 Phone: (407) 384-9484 FAX: (407) 647-7242 ESSENCE ------- ESSENCE is a library of 65 (sixty-five) new algorithmic textures for Imagine by Impulse, Inc. These textures are FULLY compatible with the floating point versions of Imagine 2.0, Imagine 1.1, and even Turbo Silver. Written by Steve Worley. [ They have put out a second volume of procedural textures ] For more info contact: Essence Info Apex Software Publishing 405 El Camino Real Suite 121 Menlo Park CA 94025 USA TEXTURE CITY ------------ Texture City publishes CD-ROM and disk-based collections of 24 bit, real world scanned images of a variety of natural textures, all of which are scanned at a resolution of 752x480. Three sets of textures are available, two on Amiga disks in JPEG format, and one on CD-ROM in a variety of file formats. "PRO-60 #1" and "PRO-60 #2" are two separate collections of 60 images each, on Amgia disks. Images are 24 bit color, 752x480 resolution and are in JPEG format. An image browser, viewer and decompressor is included. All images are of real world textures, and are not algorithmically generated. Images come in 13 categories including animal skin, scenic, quarry marble, metals, hand blown glass, special effects, and many more. "PRO-100 #1" is a CD-ROM for use with IBM-PC, Macintosh, Amiga, and SGI systems. The CD-ROM contains 100 images, each one in 24 bit color at 752x480 resolution, each one in four file formats: Targa, TIFF, PCX, and IFF-24. Images are real-world textures, including metal, stone, plants, space, wood, textile, marble, special effects, and much more. Pricing is as follows: PRO-60 #1 and #2 on Amiga disk: $99.95 each PRO-100 #1 on CD-ROM: $199.95 There is a special price for INTERNET users: PRO-100 #1 CD-ROM for $100.00. All three of the above collections are available direct by mail from the address and telephone number shown below. Texture City 3203 Overland Ave. # 6157 Los Angeles, CA 90034 (310) 836-9224 ========================================================================== Subject: 13. Introduction to rendering algorithms ======================================== a. Ray-Tracing: --------------- I assume you have a general understanding of Computer Graphics. No? Then read some of the books that the FAQ contains. For Ray-Tracing, I would suggest: An Introduction to Ray Tracing, Andrew Glassner (ed.), Academic Press 1989, ISBN 0-12-286160-4 Note that I have not read the book, but I feel that you can't be wrong using his book. An errata list was posted in comp.graphics by Eric Haines (erich@eye.com) There's a more concise reference also: Roman Kuchkuda , UNC @ Chapel Hill: "An Introduction to Ray Tracing", in "Theoretical Foundations for Computer Graphics and CAD", ed. R.A.E.Earnshaw, NATO AS, Vol. F-40., pp. 1039-1060. Printed by Springer-Verlag, 1988. It contains code for a small, but fundamentally complete ray-tracer. b. Z-buffer (depth-buffer) -------------------------- A good reference is: _Procedural Elements for Computer Graphics_, David F. Rogers, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1985, pages 265-272 and 280-284. c. Others: ---------- ??? [ More info is needed -- nfotis ] ======================================================================== Subject: 14. Where can I find the geometric data for the: ================================================ a. Teapot ? ----------- "Displays on Display" column of IEEE CG&A Jan '87 has the whole story about origin of the Martin Newell's teapot. The article also has the bezier patch model and a Pascal program to display the wireframe model of the teapot. IEEE CG&A Sep '87 in Jim Blinn's column "Jim Blinn's Corner" describes an another way to model the teapot; Bezier curves with rotations for example are used. The OFF and SPD packages have these objects, so you're advised to get them to avoid typing the data yourself. The OFF data is triangles at a specific resolution (around 8x8[x4 triangles] meshing per patch). The SPD package provides the spline patch descriptions and performs a tessellation at any specified resolution. b. Space Shuttle ? ------------------ Tolis Lerios has built a list of Space Shuttle datafiles. Here's a summary (From his sci.space list): model1: A modified version of the newsgroup model (model2) 406 vertices (296 useful, i.e. referred to in the polygon descriptions.) 389 polygons (233 3-vertex, 146 4-vertex, 7 5-vertex, 3 6-vertex). Payload doors non-existent. Units: unknown. Simon Marshall (S.Marshall@sequent.cc.hull.ac.uk) has a copy. He said there is no proprietary information associated with it. model2: The newsgroup model, in OFF format. You can find it in gondwana.ecr.mu.oz.au , file pub/off/objects/shuttle.geo model3: The triangles' model. This model is stored in several files, each defining portions of the model. Greg Henderson (henders@infonode.ingr.com) has a copy. He did not mention any restriction on the model's distribution. model4: The NASA model. The file starts off with a header line containing three real numbers, defining the offsets used by Lockheed in their simulations: From then on, the file consists of a sequence of polygon descriptions 3473 vertices. 2748 polygons (407 3-vertex, 2268 4-vertex, 33 5-vertex, 14 6-vertex, 10 7-vertex, 8 8-vertex, 8 12-vertex, 2 13-vertex, 2 15-vertex, 17 16-vertex, 2 17-vertex, 2 18-vertex, 3 19-vertex, 8 24-vertex). Payload doors closed. Units: inches. Jon Berndt (jon@l14h11.jsc.nasa.gov) seems to be responsible for the model Proprietary info: unknown model5: The old shuttle model. The file consists of a sequence of polygon descriptions. 104 vertices. 452 polygons (11 3-vertex, 41 4-vertex). Payload doors open. Units: meters. We have been using this model at STAR Labs, Stanford University, for some years now. Contact me (tolis@nova.stanford.edu) or my supervisor Scott Williams (scott@star5.stanford.edu) if you want a copy. ======================================================================== Subject: 15. Image annotation software - Paint Programs ============================================== TOUCHUP ------- Touchup runs in Sunview and is pretty good. It reads in rasterfiles, but even if your image isn't normally stored in rasterfile format you could use screendump to make it a rasterfile. IDRAW ----- Idraw (part of Stanford's InterViews distribution) can handle some image formats in addition to being a MacDraw like tool. I'm not sure exactly what they are. You can ftp the idraw's binary from interviews.stanford.edu. TGIF ---- Tgif is another MacDraw like tool that can handle X11 bitmap (xbm) and X11 pixmap (xpm) formats. If the image you have is in formats other than xbm or xpm, you can get the pbmplus toolkit to convert things like gif or even some Macintosh formats to xpm. Tgif's sources are available in the pub directory on cs.ucla.edu (Version 2.12 of tgif at patchlevel 7 plus patch8 and patch9) Editimage --------- Use the editimage facility of KHOROS (see under the Visualization tools). This is just one utility in the overall system- you can essentially do all your image processing and macdraw-type graphics using this package. PBM+ ---- You might be able to get by with PBMPlus. pbmtext gives you text output bitmaps which can be overlaid on top of your image. ICE --- 'ice' requires Sun hardware running OpenWindows 3.It's a PostScript-based graphical editor,and it's available for anonymous ftp from Internet host eo.soest.hawaii.edu (128.171.151.12). Requires Sun C++ 2.0 and two other locally developed packages, the LXT library (an Xlib-based toolkit) and a small C++ class library. All files (pub/ice.tar.Z, pub/lxt.tar.Z and pub/ldgoc++.tar.Z) are available in compressed tar format. pub/ice.tar.Z contains a README that gives installation instructions, as well as an extensive man page (ice.1). A statically-linked compressed executable pub/ice-sun4.Z for SPARC systems is also available for ftp. All software is the property of Columbia University and may not be redistributed without permission. ice means Image Composition Environment and it's an imaging tool that allows raster images to be combined with a wide variety of PostScript annotations in WYSIWYG fashion via X11 imaging routines and NeWS PostScript rasterizing. ImageMagick ----------- Use ImageMagick to annotate an image from your X server. Pick the position of your text with the cursor and choose your font and pen color from a pull-down menu. ImageMagick can read and write many of the more popular image formats. ImageMagick is available as export.lcs.mit.edu: contrib/ImageMagick.tar.Z or at your nearest X11 archive. BIT --- bit is an interactive full color image viewer and editor based on Silicon Graphics GL. It's an image viewer, an image editor/processor, and can serve as a launch pad for other applications via key bindings. It has also built-in editing/annotate capabilities Xpaint ------ From: koblas@netcom.com (David Koblas) XPaint is a color image editing tool which features most standard paint program options. It allows for the editing of multiple images simultaneously and supports various formats, including PPM, XBM, TIFF, etc. Available at: export.lcs.mit.edu as contrib/xpaint-?.?.0.tar.Z netcom.com as pub/koblas/xpaint-?.?.0.tar.Z ezd --- A small bitmap collaging utility. It does things like: put image 1 at x,y, put image 2 at x2,y2, and have image 2 overlayed on image 1, etc. The commands to do the previous example are: (bitmap 10 10 "image1.xbm"), (bitmap 11 11 "image2.xbm"). Available on gatekeeper.dec.com: pub/DEC/ezd ======================================================================== End of Part 4 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 14:16:47 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 5/6] Message-ID: Followup-To: poster Lines: 1262 Sender: nfotis@theseas.ntua.gr (Nick C. Fotis) Reply-To: nfotis@theseas.ntua.gr (Nick (Nikolaos) Fotis) Organization: National Technical University of Athens, Greece Date: Mon, 3 Oct 1994 17:20:32 GMT Approved: news-answers-request@MIT.Edu Xref: tusol.cs.trinity.edu comp.graphics:3093 comp.answers:1006 news.answers:3324 Archive-name: graphics/resources-list/part5 Last-modified: 1994/10/03 Computer Graphics Resource Listing : BIWEEKLY POSTING [ PART 5/6 ] ===================================================== Last Change : 3 Octomber 1994 Subject: 16. Scientific visualization stuff ================================== X Data Slice (xds) ------------------- Bundled with the X11 distribution from MIT, in the contrib directory. Available at ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu [141.142.20.50] (either as a source or binaries for various platforms). National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) Tool Suite ----------------------------------------------------------------- Platforms: Unix Workstations (DEC, IBM, SGI, Sun) Apple MacIntosh Cray supercomputers Availability: Now available. Source code in the public domain. FTP from ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu. Contact: National Center for Supercomputing Applications Computing Applications Building 605 E. Springfield Ave. Champaign, IL 61820 Cost: Free (zero dollars). The suite includes tools for 2D image and 3D scene analysis and visualization. The code is actively maintained and updated. Spyglass -------- They sell commercial versions of the NCSA tools. Examples are: Spyglass Dicer (3D volumetric data analysis package) Platform: Mac Spyglass Transform (2D data analysis package) Platforms: Mac, SGI, Sun, DEC, HP, IBM Contact: Spyglass, Inc. P.O. Box 6388 Champaign, IL 61826 (217) 355-6000 KHOROS 1.0 Patch 5 ------------------ Available via anonymous ftp at pprg.eece.unm.edu (129.24.24.10). cd to /pub/khoros to see what is available. It is HUGE (> 100 MB), but good. Needs Unix and X11R4. Freely copied (NOT PD), complete with sources and docs. Very extensive and at its heart is visual programming. Khoros components include a visual programming language, code generators for extending the visual language and adding new application packages to the system, an interactive user interface editor, an interactive image display package, an extensive library of image and signal processing routines, and 2D/3D plotting packages. See comp.soft-sys.khoros on Usenet and the relative FAQ for more info.... Contact: The Khoros Group Room 110 EECE Dept. University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM 87131 Email: khoros-request@chama.eece.unm.edu MacPhase -------- Analysis & Visualization Application for the Macintosh. Operates on 1D and 2D data arrays. Import/Export several different file formats. Several different plotting options such as gray scale, color raster, 3D Wire frame, 3D surface, contour, vector, line, and combinations. FFTs, filtering, and other math functions, color look up editor, array calculator, etc. Shareware, available via anonymous ftp from sumex-aim.stanford.edu in the info-mac/app directory. For other information contact Doug Norton (e-mail: 74017.461@@compuserve.com) IRIS Explorer ------------- From: Jeremy Walton IRIS Explorer is an application creation system developed by Silicon Graphics that provides visualisation and analysis functionality for computational scientists, engineers and other scientists. The IRIS Explorer GUI allows users to build custom applications without having to write any, or a minimal amount of, traditional code. Also, existing code can be easily integrated into the IRIS Explorer environment. Platforms: SGI, Cray, SPARC, DEC, IBM, HP. The SPARC ports have been done by DuPont Pixel and by Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG) Ltd; NAG are also porting IRIS Explorer to IBM RS/6000, HP 9000 series 700 and DEC Alpha. Availability: Available now on SGI, Cray and SPARC. Other versions to be announced soon. Contact: IRIS Explorer Center for details of availability and distribution information, and for user support and other technical enquiries: IRIS Explorer Center (Europe) PO Box 50 OXFORD OX2 8JU UK Tel : +44 (0)865 516377 Fax : +44 (0)865 516388 e-mail : helpdesk@iec.co.uk IRIS Explorer Center (North America) 1400 Opus Place, Suite 200 Downers Grove, IL 60515-5702 USA Tel : +1 708 971 2367 Fax : +1 708 971 2706 e-mail : infodesk@nag.com More information: The IRIS Explorer Center runs a Gopher server, containing technical information and advice, technical papers and User Group details: Name = IRIS Explorer Center Bulletin Board Type = 1 Path = 1/visual/IE/iecbb Host = nags2.nag.co.uk [192.156.217.7] Port = 70 This service is also available via World Wide Web: http://nags2.nag.co.uk/Welcome_IEC.html The explorer ftp site is ftp.epcc.ed.ac.uk which is housed at Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre. The administrator is Gordon Cameron. This archive is mirrored in the USA by swedishchef.lerc.nasa.gov, administered by Jeff Hanson. Newsgroups: comp.graphics.explorer, comp.sys.sgi.graphics apE --- Back in the 'old good days', you could get apE for nearly free. Now has gone commercial and the following vendor supplies it: TaraVisual Corporation 929 Harrison Avenue Columbus, Ohio 43215 Tel: 1-800-458-8731 and (614) 291-2912 Fax: (614) 291-2867 Cost: $895 (plus tax); runtime version with a site-license for a single user (at a time), no limit on the number of machines in a cluster. $895 includes support/maintenance and upgrades. Source code more. Additional user licenses $360. The name of the package has become apE III (TM). Khoros is very similar to apE on philosophy, as are AVS and Explorer. AVS --- See also: comp.graphics.avs Platforms: CONVEX, CRAY, DEC, Evans & Sutherland, HP, IBM, Kubota, Set Technologies, SGI, Stardent, SUN, Wavetracer Availability: AVS4 available on all the above: For all UNIX workstations. Contact: Advanced Visual Systems Inc. 300 Fifth Ave. Waltham, MA 02154 (617)-890-4300 Telephone (617)-890-8287 Fax avs@avs.com Email Advanced Visual Systems Inc. for: CRAY, HP, IBM, SGI, Stardent, SUN CONVEX for CONVEX Advanced Visual Systems Inc. or CRAY for CRAY DEC for DEC Evans & Sutherland for Evans & Sutherland Advanced Visual Systems Inc. or IBM for IBM Kubota Pacific Inc. for Kubota Set Technologies for Set Technologies Wavetracer for Wavetracer FTP Site: for modules, data sets, other info: avs.ncsc.org (128.109.178.23) WiT (changed spelling!) --- In a nutshell it's a package of the same genre as AVS,Explorer,etc. It seems more a image processing system than a generic SciVi system (IMHO) Major elements are: - a visual programming language, which automatically exploits the inherent parallelism - a code generator which converts the graph to a standalone program Iconified libraries present a rich set of point, filter, io, transform, morphological, segmentation, and measurement operations. A flow library allows graphs to employ broadcast, merge, synchronization, conditional, and sequencing control strategies. WiT delivers an object-oriented, distributed, visual programming environment which allows users to rapidly design solutions to their imaging problems. Users can consolidate both software and hardware developments within a complete CAD-like workspace by adding their own operators (C functions), objects (data structures), and servers (specialized hardware). WiT 5.0 will be available towards the beginning of the last quarter '94 and will include support for multi-dimensional image processing, 3D volume slicing and viewing, and 3D ROI entry. WiT runs on Sun SPARCs (SunOS 4.X, Solaris 2.3), Linux, and Windows 3.1/NT. It also supports Datacube MV-200 and Digicolor hardware, allowing you to run your graphs in real-time (available from Datacube under the product name WiTFlow) For a free WiT demo disk, call, FAX, or e-mail (poon@ee.ubc.ca) us stating your complete name, address, voice, FAX, e-mail info. and desired platform. There's an FTP'able demo for SPARCs under sunsite.unc.edu /pub/sun-info/catalyst/logical-vision Pricing: WiT for Sparc, one yr. free upgrades, 30 days technical support....................$5000 US Entry level pricing now at $1000 US, with upgrade to the full system for $4000 US more. WiT for Windows 3.1/NT: starts at US $1800.00. They recommend the Watcom C 10.0 32-bit compiler to support code development. Academic institutions: discounts available Contact: Logical Vision Ltd. Suite 108-3700 Gilmore Way Burnaby, B.C., CANADA V5G 4M1 Tel: 604-435-2587 Fax: 604-435-8840 e-mail: Terry Arden #VIS-AD ------ +[ Former VIS-5D ] + + A system for interactively visualizing and steering scientific computations. + This system provides: + + * An interactive computational environment combining a flexible + interpreted language with linkages to Fortran and C. + + * A data model that lets users design data types appropriate + to their applications. + + * A novel and flexible way to visualize computations. + + VIS-AD includes a large number of example programs and data sets + that demonstrate its flexibility. While it has been developed + primarily to meet the needs of environmental scientists, its + flexibility makes it useful to any scientists who develop + algorithms or use computers to analyze data. + + Version 1.1 adds support for a greater variety of map projections + than were available under Version 1.0, and support for user-defined + map projections (in VIS-AD these are called sample sets and are + finite samplings of 1-D, 2-D or 3-D real spaces). + + Version 1.1 of VIS-AD runs on Silicon Graphics workstation. + Later versions will be ported to other vendors' workstations. + + You can get it with: ftp iris.ssec.wisc.edu (or ftp 144.92.108.63), then + ftp> cd pub/visad + ftp> ascii + ftp> get README + ftp> binary + ftp> get visad.1.1.tar.Z + ftp> bye Contact: + Bill Hibbard (whibbard@macc.wisc.edu) + Brian Paul (brianp@ssec.wisc.edu) + Space Science and Engineering Center + University of Wisconsin - Madison + 1225 W. Dayton St. + Madison, WI 53706 IBM DATAexplorer ---------------- Platforms : IBM Risc System 6000, IBM POWER Visualization Server (SIMD mesh 32 i860s, 40 MHz), SGI, HP, Sun Contact: Keith Sams Data Explorer Product Marketing E-mail: ksams@vnet.ibm.com or KSAMS AT DALVMIC1 214-280-1412 To order, call: 1-800-IBM-CALL : Commercial customers 1-800-333-6705 : Federal customers Repository: Contributed modules, macros, data sets and other information Anonymous ftp - ftp info.tc.cornell.edu (cd /pub/vis/Data.Explorer) Gopher - telnet info.tc.cornell.edu (login as user info) Mailing-list at data-exp@watson.ibm.com Cost: $5900 node locked license - A free trial version is available (contact Keith Sams) - Discounts are available as follows: IBM Higher Education Software Consortium Single user educational discount GSA contract GS00K92AGS5541, Option YR 1 Volume discounts Wavefront --------- Data Visualizer, Personal Visualizer, Advanced Visualizer. Platforms: SGI, SUN, IBM RS6000, HP DEC is not supported anymore Availability: Available on all the above platforms from Wavefront Technologies. Educational programs and site licenses are available. Contacts: Mike Wilson (mike@wti.com) Wavefront Technologies, Inc. 530 East Montecito Street Santa Barbara, CA 93103 805-962-8117 FAX: 805-963-0410 Wavefront Europe Guldenspoorstraat 21-23 B-9000 Gent, Belgium 32-91-25-45-55 FAX: 32-91-23-44-56 Wavefront Technologies Japan 17F Shinjuku-sumitomo Bldg 2-6-1 Nishi-shinjuku, Shunjuku-Ku Tokyo 168 Japan 81-3-3342-7330 FAX 81-3-3342-7353 PLOT3D and FAST from NASA Ames ------------------------------ Flow Analysis Software Toolkit (FAST) ------------------------------------- [ Call COSMIC, NASA's software ditribution center for details ] + You can get information from the NASA via the World Wide Web: +http://www.nas.nasa.gov/FAST/fast.html OVERVIEW FAST is currently under development by members of the Numerical Aerodynamics Simulation (NAS) Division at NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA 94035-1000. It is a software environment for analyzing 3D data. FAST consists of a collection of separate programs (modules) that run simultaneously and allow the user to examine the results of numerical simulations by loading data files, performing calculations on the data, visualizing the results of these calculations, and constructing scenes of 3D graphical objects that may be animated and recorded. The approach used in FAST is to create an environment of compatable, minimally overlapping modules, each with its own purpose and functionality, but with the ability to share its data with the other modules. All of the modules in the FAST environment have a consistent, easy-to-use, highly interactive user interface (using the Panel Library developed at Ames). FAST is flexible and extensible: the environment can be custom configured and new modules can be developed and added to it. Note that FAST is not a visual programming environment, it is a multi-processed visualization and animation tool. EXISTING MODULES The following modules are available in this version of FAST: HUB Central ipc and shared memory manager starts modules. VIEWER Viewing process for the FAST environment. FILE IO Loads grid, solution, function. ARCGRAPH Draws ARCGraph graphics metafiles. FILE IO Loads grid, solution, function. ARCGRAPH Draws ARCGraph graphics metafiles. CALCULATOR CFD Calculator computes scalar and vector fields. SURFER Draws surfaces of a structured grid. SURFERU Draws surfaces of an unstructured grid. TRACER Computes partical traces through the structured or unstructured vector field. ISOLEV Draws xyz cutting plane and contour surfaces for a structured grid. ISOLEVU Draws xyz cutting plane and contour surfaces for a unstructured grid. TOPOLOGY Extracts critical points in vector field. SHOTET Draws selected tetrahedra of an unstructured grid. PLOTTER Plots xy graphs of scalar functions. TITLER Text title editor for adding titles to graphics. AUDIO Produces sound from scalar data. IMAGER Draws raster files (image format). HOW TO GET FAST GENERAL USERS Contact COSMIC phone (706) 542-3265 fax (706) 542-4807 email service@cossack.cosmic.uga.edu COST: User Guide...................... $72 Source code: For commercial customers........ $2000 For educational institutions.... $ 200 For FAST commercial Beta sites.. $ 500 For NASA sites.................. $ 0 NASA sites: Place orders through your NASA contract monitor (for a contractor) or through your local Technology Utilization Office (for NASA employees). COSMIC does not charge for programs and documentation used exclusively in support of a NASA project. FAST and derivative products may not be distributed internationally.* Institutions receiving FAST at the educational price must agree not to distribute the program beyond their site. This restriction does not apply if users pay the commercial price for the code. NUMERICAL AERODYNAMIC SIMULATION (NAS) SYSTEM USERS See nasinfo or send email to fast@nas.nasa.gov FAST USER GROUP To join the FAST user group and receive tips and important announcements about FAST, send your email address to: fast-users-request@nas.nasa.gov SUPPORT Email questions, comments and suggestions to: fast@nas.nasa.gov ______________________________________________________________________________ *A waiver may be granted for US institutions or US companies performing work outside the US on a US Gov't contract. Send written request to NASA HQTRS (Attn: Ray Rose, Technology Transfer Control, Office of Aeronautics) from your Gov't Contract Officer Representative and from the Program Manager or the Technical Monitors of the Gov't project. XGRAPH ------ On the contrib tape of X11R5. Its specialty is display of up to 64 data sets (2D). NCAR ---- National Center for Atmospheric Research. One of the original graphics packages. Runs on Sun, RS6000, SGI, VAX, Cray Y-MP, DecStations, and more. Contact: Graphics Information NCAR Scientific Computing Division P.O. Box 3000 Boulder, CO 80307-3000 (303)-497-1201 scdinfo@ncar.ucar.edu Cost: .edu $750 Unlimited users .gov $750 1 user $1500 5 users $3000 25 users .com users multiply .gov * 2.0 IDL --- An environment for scientific computing and visualization. Based on an array oriented language, IDL includes 2D and 3D graphics, matrix manupulation, signal and image processing, basic statistics, gridding, mapping, and a widget based system for building GUI for IDL applications (Open Look, Motif, or MS-Windows). Environments: DEC (VMS and Ultrix), HP, IBM RS6000, SGI, Sun, Microsoft Windows. (Mac version in progress) Cost: $1500 to $3750, Educational and quantity discounts available. See also: comp.lang.idl-pvwave (the IDL-PVWAVE bundle) Contact: Research Systems Inc. 777 29th Street, Suite 302 Boulder, CO 80303 Phone: 303-786-9900 FAX: 303-786-9909 E-mail: info@rsinc.com Demo available via FTP. Call or E-mail for details. IDL/SIPS -------- "A lot of people are using IDL with a package called SIPS. This was developed at the University of Colorado (Boulder) by some people working for Alex Goetz. You might try contacting them if you already have IDL or would be willing to buy it. It's a few thousand dollars (American) I expect for IDL and the other should be free. Those are the general purpose packages I've heard of, besides what TerraMar has. SIPS _was_ written for AVIRIS imagery. I'm not sure how general purpose it is. You would have to contact Goetz or one of his people and ask. I have another piece of software (PCW) that does PC and Walsh transformations with pseudocoloring and clustering and limited image modification (you can compute an image using selected components). I've used it on 70 megabyte AVIRIS images without problems, but for the best speed you need an external DSP card. It will work without it, but large images take quite a while (50-70 times as long) to process. That's a freebie if you want it" "My favorite is IDL (Interactive Data Language) from Research Systems, Inc. IDL is in my opinion, much better and infinitely easier. Its programming language is very strong and easy -- very Pascal-like. It handles the number-crunching very well, also. Personally, I like doing the number-crunching with IDL on the VAX (or Mathematica, Igor, or even Excel on the Mac if it's not too hairy), then bringing it over to NIH Image for the imaging part. I have yet to encounter any situation which that combination couldn't handle, and the speed and ease of use (compared to IRAF) was incredible. By the way, it's mostly astronomical image processing which I've been doing. This means image enhancement, cleaning up bad lines/pixels, and some other traditional image processing routines. Then, for example, taking a graph of intensity versus position along a line I choose with the mouse, then doing a curve fit to that line (which I might do like in KaleidaGraph.) " [ For IDL call Research Systems , for PV-WAVE call Precision Visuals and for SIPS call University of Colorado @ Boulder . From what I can understand, you can get packaged programs from Research Systems, though -- nfotis ] IDL - PV-WAVE ------------- The PV-WAVE family of products uses powerful visual and numerical analysis techniques to reduce large, complex data sets into easily interpreted visual plots and displays; for faster more effective decision making. PV-WAVE (Workstation Analysis and Visualization Environment) is the industry leading 4GL for Visual Data Analysis (VDA). PV-WAVE integrates powerful plotting and charting, volume visualization, signal and image processing, advanced numerical and statistical analysis, flexible data input and output, and much more, all in an efficient and integrated software system. PV-WAVE makes it easy to find key trends and relationships in your data by allowing you to distill raw data into meaningful information quickly. Products: PV-WAVE Advantage - PV-WAVE Command Language with additional commands to access the IMSL C/Math and C/Stat libraries directly PV-WAVE Command Language - the basic 4GL for VDA PV-WAVE Point & Click - PV-WAVE functionality accessed via a Graphical User Interface (GUI) Modules: NOTE: All modules are compatible with PV-WAVE Advantage and PV-WAVE Command Language. PV-WAVE:GTGRID - gridding capabilities beyond the basic products PV-WAVE:Maple - ability to interact with a Maple (symbolic mathematics) session PV-WAVE:Database Connection - read data directly from Sybase or Oracle databases Environments: Sun (SunOS and Solaris), HP700, SGI, IBM RS6000, DEC (OpenVMS VAX, OpenVMS AXP, OSF/1 AXP and ULTRIX), Windows NT (Intel, Mips, DEC AlphaPC), Windows v3.1 See also: comp.lang.idl-pvwave Contact: Visual Numerics, Inc. 6230 Lookout Road Boulder, CO 80301 (303) 530-9000 (phone) (303) 530-9329 (FAX) EnSight ------- EnSight 5 is in use world-wide by engineers requiring a full-featured finite element postprocessing system. EnSight interfaces with all major commercial analysis packages. EnSight is a distributed postprocessor: a server handles I/O and compute intensive activities and a client handles all user-interface interaction and graphic rendering. The tasks can reside on either the same workstation or two separate systems. CEI provides a unique licensing policy for EnSight. Only the server portion is licensed - customers are free to copy the client. The needs of multiple users can therefore be met with a single license. Platforms: Server: SGI, HP, DEC Alpha, IBM, Sun, Cray, Convex Client: SGI, HP, DEC Alpha, IBM, Sun Availability: Server: Available now on all listed platforms Client: Available now on SGI, HP, DEC Alpha Available Q2 1994 on IBM and Sun Contact: Tom Palmer Computational Engineering International, Inc. P.O. Box 14306 Research Triangle Park, NC 27709 (919) 481-4301 (919) 481-4306 (fax) ensight@ceintl.com -or- palmer@ceintl.com Visual3 ------- Visual3 is a visualization system that provides a programmer level interface instead of a canned application. Brief description and availability is below. Visual3 runs on Stellar, DEC stations, IBM RS/6000, HP and SGI. (From the manual): VISUAL3 is an interactive graphics environment for the visualization of three-dimensional, structured and/or unstructured data. This volumetric data may be steady or time varying. VISUAL3 deals with three different types of surfaces. The first category is `domain' surfaces. These are surfaces which are defined by the application program which initializes VISUAL3, and they typically correspond to the surfaces which bound the computational domain. A subset of this first class, are `mapped domain' surfaces, for which there is a mapping from points on the surface to an $(x',y')$ coordinate system, which allows plotting of surface quantities in a 2D setting. The second category is `dynamic' surfaces. These are surfaces whose orientation and position, relative to the computational domain, can be changed interactively by the user. Although there are several types of dynamic surface, only one dynamic surface can exist at one time. Also, a dynamic surface cannot be activated when a mapped domain surface is being plotted in the 2D window. The third category is `static' surfaces. These are surfaces which at one time were `dynamic', but then were `frozen' and transferred into a database, along with the domain surfaces. These static surfaces are then treated in almost the same way as the unmapped domain surfaces. NOTE: Any `static' surface in a `grid unsteady' application deforms with the grid movement. The surface is associated with the cells and not physical space. Therefore, for planar cuts, the data is not clipped to the 2D window size when the surface was saved. Author: Bob Haimes email: haimes@orville.mit.edu MIT 37-467 FAX: (617) 253-0823 77 Mass Ave Tel: (617) 253-7518 Cambridge, Ma 02139 FieldView --------- An interactive program designed to assist an engineer in investigating fluid dynamics data sets. Platforms: SGI, IBM, HP, SUN, X-terminals Availability: Currently available on all of the above platforms. Educational programs and volume discounts are available. Contact: Intelligent Light P.O. Box 65 Fair Lawn, NJ 07410 (201)794-7550 Steve Kramer (kramer@ilight.com) SciAn ------ SciAn is primarily intended to do 3-D visualizations of data in an interactive environment with the ability to generate animations using frame-accurate video recording devices. A user manual, on-line help, and technical notes will help you use the program. Cost : 0 (Free), source code provided via ftp. Platforms : SGI 4D machines and IBM RS/6000 with the GL card + Z-buffer Where to find it: ftp.scri.fsu.edu [144.174.128.34] : /pub/SciAn A mirror is monu1.cc.monash.edu.au [130.194.1.101] : /pub/SciAn SCRY ---- [ From the README : ] Scry is a distributed image handling system that pro- vides image transport and compression on local and wide area networks, image viewing on workstations, recording on video equipment, and storage on disk. The system can be distri- buted among workstations, between supercomputers and works- tations, and between supercomputers, workstations and video animation controllers. The system is most commonly used to produce video based movie displays of images resulting from visualization of time dependent data, complex 3D data sets, and image processing operations. Both the clients and servers run on a variety of systems that provide UNIX-like C run-time environments, and 4BSD sockets. The source is available for anonymous ftp: george.lbl.gov [128.3.196.93] : pub/scry.tar.Z Contact: Bill Johnston, (wejohnston@lbl.gov, ...ucbvax!csam.lbl.gov!johnston) or David Robertson (dwrobertson@lbl.gov, ...ucbvax!csam.lbl.gov!davidr) Imaging Technologies Group MS 50B/2239 Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory 1 Cyclotron Road Berkeley, CA 94720 SVLIB / FVS ----------- SVLIB is an X-Windows widget set based on the OSF (Open Software Foundation) Motif widget set. SVLIB widgets are macro-widgets comprising lower level Motif widgets such as buttons, scrollbars, menus, and drawing areas. It is designed to address the reusability of 2D visualization routines and each widget in the library is an encapsulation of a specific visualization technique such as colormap manipulation, image display, and contour plotting. It is targetted to run on UNIX workstations supporting OSF/Motif. Currently, only color monitors are supported. Since SVLIB is a collection of widgets developed in the same spirit as the OSF/Motif user interface widget set, it integrates seamlessly with the Motif widgets. Programmers using SVLIB widgets see the same interface and design as other Motif widgets. FVS is a visualization software for Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations. FVS is designed to accept data generated from these simulations and apply various visualization techniques to present these data graphically. FVS accepts three-dimensional multi-block data recorded in NCSA HDF format. iti.gov.sg [192.122.132.130] : /pub/svlib (Scientific Visualization) /pu/fvs; These directories contain demo binaries for Sun4/SGI Cost : US$200 for academic and US$300 for non-academic institutions. (For each of the above items). You're getting the source for the licence. Contact ------- Miss Quek Lee Hian Member of Technical Staff Information Technology Institute National Computer Board NCB Building 71, Sicence Park Drive Singapore 0511 Republic of Singapore Tel : (65)7720435 Fax : (65)7795966 Email : leehian@iti.gov.sg --------------------------------------------------------- GVLware Distribution: Bob - An interactive volume renderer for the SGI Raz - A disk based movie player for the SGI Icol - Motif color editor --------------------------------------------------------- The Army High Performance Computing Research Center (AHPCRC) has been developing a set of tools to work with large time dependent 2D and 3D data sets. In the Graphics and Visualization Lab (GVL) we are using these tools along side standard packages, such as SGI Explorer and the Utah Raster Toolkit, to render 3D volumes and create digital movies. A couple of the more general purpose programs have been bundled into a package called "GVLware". GVLware, currently consisting of Bob, Raz and Icol, is now available via ftp. The most interesting program is probably Bob, an interactive volume renderer for the SGI. Raz streams raster images from disk to an SGI screen, enabling movies larger than memory to be played. Icol is a color map editor that works with Bob and Raz. Source and pre-built binaries for IRIX 4.0.5 are included. To acquire GVLware, anonymous ftp to: machine - ftp.arc.umn.edu file - /pub/gvl.tar.Z To use GVLware: mkdir gvl ; cd gvl zcat gvl.tar.Z | tar xvf - more README Some Bob features: Motif interface, SGI GL rendering Renders 64 cubed data set in 0.1 to 1.0 seconds on a VGX Alpha Compositing and Maximum Value rendering, in perspective (only Maximum Value rendering on Personal Iris) Data must be a "Brick of Bytes", on a regularly spaced grid Animation, subvolumes, subsampling, stereo Some Raz features: Motif interface, SGI GL rendering Loads files to a raw disk partition, then streams to screen (requires an empty disk partition to be set aside) Script interface available for movie sequences Can stream from memory, like NCSA XImage Some Icol features: Motif interface Easy to create interpolated color maps between key points RGB, HSV and YUV color spaces, multiple file formats Communicates changes automatically to Bob and Raz Has been tested on SGI, Sun, DEC and Cray systems BTW: Bob == Brick of Bytes Icol == Interpolated Color Raz == ? (just a name) Please send any comments to gvlware@ahpcrc.umn.edu This software collection is supported by the Army Research Office contract number DAALO3-89-C-0038 with the University of Minnesota Army High Performance Computing Research Center. IAP --- Imaging Applications Platform is a commercial package for medical and scientific visualization. It does volume rendering, binary surface rendering, multiplanar reformating, image manipulation, cine sequencing, intermixes geometry and text with images and provides measurement and coordinate transform abilities. It can provide hardcopy on most medical film printers, image database functionality and interconnection to most medical (CT/MRI/etc) scanners. It is client/server based and provides an object oriented interface. It runs on most high performance workstations and takes full advantage of parallelism where it is available. It is robust, efficient and will be submitted for FDA approval for use in medical applications. Cost: $20K for OEM developer, $10K for educational developer and run times starting at $8900 and going down based on quantity. The developer packages include two days training for two people in Toronto. Available from: ISG Technologies 6509 Airport Road Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, L4V-1S7 (416) 672-2100 e-mail: Rod Gilchrist ======================================================================== Subject: 17. Molecular visualization stuff ================================= IMPORTANT NOTE: I'M EXPECTING TO REMOVE THIS PART AND LET ANOTHER ONE TAKE IT OVER!!!! From: Didier Vandervecken The FAQ is available on the Computational Chemistry List Server: 1) by anonymous FTP ftp infomeister.osc.edu (or ftp 128.146.36.5) Name: anonymous Password: your_e-mail_address (please !) ftp> cd pub/chemistry/documents ftp> get README ftp> get molecular_graphics_packages ftp> quit 2) by mail send a message to MAILSERV@osc.edu the content of the mail would be : select chemistry get documents/molecular_graphics_packages quit 3) by gopher (This will be available soon..., it is still undergoing testing). The archives are located at infomeister.osc.edu on port 73. So you can access them with a command gopher infomeister 73 or similar (depending on your system). +Envision +-------- + Envision is an interactive system for the management and visualization + of large scientific data sets. It runs on UNIX workstations under + X/Motif, manages data stored in netCDF and HDF files, and does + visualization using NCSA Collage, NCSA XDataSlice, and IDL. + + Envision is public domain software and is available by anonymous FTP. + The primary ftp site for Envision is vista.atmos.uiuc.edu in + pub/envision. A secondary FTP site is csrp.tamu.edu. Included in the + release are binaries for IBM RS6000, HP, Sun, and SGI, as well as + source and make files. Complete documentation, sample data, and + binaries to generate Envision project files for the sample data are + provided. If you get Envision, we request that you report any bugs + you find to envision@vista.atmos.uiuc.edu. + + The Envision Home Page has URL: + http://www.atmos.uiuc.edu/envision/envision.html + + The Envision Home Page has: + (1) connections to text and graphics about the Envision + project and what the software does. + (2) links to hypermedia versions of recent Envision papers and + a hypermedia presentation on Envision made at the American + Meteorological Society / Interactive Information and Processing + Systems meeting, Nashville, Jan. 1994. + (3) links to hypermedia pages for other software packages used + with Envision including HDF, netCDF, Collage, XDataSlice, and IDL. + (4) a connection to the new hypertext Envision User's Guide -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 17. Molecular visualization stuff ================================= [ Based on a list from cristy@dupont.com < Cristy > , which asked for systems for displaying Molecular Dynamics, MD for short ] Flex ---- It is a public domain package written by Michael Pique, at The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA. Flex is stored as a compressed, tar'ed archive (about 3.4MB) at ftp.scripps.edu [137.131.168.6], in pub/flex. It displays molecular models and MD trajectories. MacMolecule ----------- (for Macintosh). I searched with Archie, and the most promising place is sumex-aim.stanford.edu (info-mac/app, and info-mac/art/qt for a demo) MD-DISPLAY ---------- Runs on SGI machines. Call Terry Lybrand XtalView -------- It is a crystallography package that does visualize molecules and much more. It uses the XView toolkit. Call Duncan McRee landman@hal.physics.wayne.edu: ----------------------------- I am writing my own visualization code right now. I look at MD output (a specific format, easy to alter for the subroutine) on PC's. My program has hooks into GKS. If your friend has access to Phigs for X (PEX) and fortran bindings, I would be happy to share my evolving code (free of charge). Right now it can display supercells of up to 65 atoms (easy to change), and up to 100 time steps, drawing nearest neighbor bonds between 2 defining nn radii. It works acceptably fast on a 10Mhz 286. icsg0001@caesar.cs.montana.edu: ------------------------------ I did a project on Molecular Visualization for my Master's Thesis, using UNIX/X11/Motif which generates a simple point and space-filling model. KGNGRAF ------- KGNGRAF is part of MOTECC-91. Look on malena.crs4.it (156.148.7.12), in pub/motecc. motecc.info.txt Information about MOTECC-91 in plain ascii format. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- motecc.info.troff Information about MOTECC-91 in troff format. motecc.form.troff MOTECC-91 order form in troff format. motecc.license.troff MOTECC-91 license agreement in troff format. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- motecc.info.ps Information about MOTECC-91 in PostScript format. motecc.form.ps MOTECC-91 order form in PostScript format. motecc.license.ps MOTECC-91 license agreement in PostScript format. ditolla@itnsg1.cineca.it: ------------------------ I'm working on molecular dynamic too. A friend of mine and I have developed a program to display an MD run dynamically on Silicon Graphics. We are working to improve it, but it doesn't work under X, we are using the graphi. lib. of the Silicon Gr. because they are much faster then X. When we'll end it we'll post on the news info about where to get it with ftp. (Will be free software). XBall V3.0 ---------- Written by David Nedde. Call daven@ivy.wpi.edu. This program simulates bouncing balls in a window. You create the balls in a variety of ways, and can set the gravity, elasticity, whether balls collide or not, etc. Includes Motif support, 3-d shaded balls, and a demo running facility. [ It's more a demo than a production program - another like it is xgas from the X11 distribution. Someone could make something more elaborate with polyatomics, etc. ] XMol ---- An X Window System program that uses OSF/Motif for the display and analysis of molecular model data. Data from several common file formats can be read and written; current formats include: Alchemy, CHEMLAB-II, Gaussian, MOLSIM, MOPAC, PDB, and MSCI's XYZ format (which has been designed for simplicity in translating to and from other formats). XMol also allows for conversion between several of these formats. Xmol is available at ftp.msc.edu. Read pub/xmol/README for further details. MSCI has changed its distribution policy, the current version is now available to users outside the USA and it no longer contains a built-in expiration date. However, only binary versions for Decstation, SGI Iris-4D, IBM RS/6000, Sun SPARCstation and Sun-3 are available. INSIGHT II ---------- from BIOSYM Technologies Inc. SCARECROW --------- The program has been published in J. Molecular Graphics 10 (1992) 33. The program can analyze and display CHARMM, DISCOVER, YASP and MUMOD trajectories. The program package contains also software for the generation of probe surfaces, proton affinity surfaces and molecular orbitals from an extended Huckel program. It works on Silicon Graphics machines. Contact Leif Laaksonen MULTI ----- ns.niehs.nih.gov [157.98.8.8] : /pub - MULTI 3.0 (Multi-Process Molecular Modeling Suite). Runs on Silicon Graphics Workstations only. MindTool -------- It runs under SunView, and requires a fortran compiler and Sun's CGI libraries. MindTool is a tool provided for the interactive graphic manipulation of molecules and atoms. Currently, up to 10,000 atoms may be input. Available via anonymous FTP, at rani.chem.yale.edu, directory /pub/MindTool ( Check with Archie for other sites if that's too far ) RasMol/RasWin ------------- The source code is public domain and freely distributable provided that the original author is suitably acknowledged. It's written and maintained by Roger Sayle, at The Biocomputing Research Unit, University of Edinburgh, UK (rasmol@dcs.ed.ac.uk, or rasmol@ggr.co.uk). RasMol is the version for UNIX workstations under the X Window System and RasWin is the version for MS Windows version 3.1. RasMol reads in molecular co-ordinate files in a number of formats and interactively displays the molecule on the screen in a variety of colour schemes and representations. Currently supported input file formats include Brookhaven Protein Databank (PDB), Tripos' Alchemy and Sybyl Mol2 formats, Molecular Design Limited's (MDL) Mol file format, Minnesota Supercomputer Center's (MSC) XMol XYZ format and CHARMm format files. If connectivity information and/or secondary structure information is not contained in the file this is calculated automatically. The loaded molecule may be shown as wireframe, cylinder (drieding) stick bonds, alpha-carbon trace, spacefilling (CPK) spheres, macromolecular ribbons (either smooth shaded solid ribbons or parallel strands), hydrogen bonding and dot surface. Different parts of the molecule may be displayed and coloured independently of the rest of the molecule or shown in different representations simultaneously. The spacefilling spheres can even be shadowed. The displayed molecule may be rotated, translated, zoomed, z-clipped (slabbed) interactively using either the mouse, the scroll bars, the command line or an attached dials box. RasMol can read a prepared list of commands from a `script' file (or via interprocess communication) to allow a given image or viewpoint to be restored quickly. RasMol can also be used to create script files containing the commands required to regenerate the current image. Finally the rendered image may be written out in a variety of formats including both raster and vector PostScript, GIF, PPM, BMP, Sun rasterfile or as a MolScript input script. RasMol will run on a wide range of architectures and systems including sun3, sun4, sun386i, SGI, DEC, HP and E&S workstations, IBM RS/6000, Cray, Sequent, DEC Alpha (OSF/1, OpenVMS and Windows NT), VAX VMS (under DEC Windows), IBM RS/6000, HP and IBM PC (under Microsoft Windows, Windows NT, OS/2, Linux, BSD386 and *BSD). Support for an Apple Machintosh version is planned for October '94. UNIX and VMS versions require an 8bit, 24bit or 32bit X Windows frame buffer (X11R4 or later). The X Windows version of RasMol provides optional support for a hardware dials box and accelerated shared memory rendering (via the XInput and MIT-SHM extensions) if available. The complete source code and user documentation may be obtained by anonymous FTP from ftp.dcs.ed.ac.uk [129.215.160.5] in the directory /pub/rasmol. The source code, documentation and Microsoft Windows executables are stored in several files appropriate for the receiving operating system. Please read the "README" file in the distribution directory. UNIX and VAX systems should retreive either RasMol2.tar.Z, RasMol2.tar.gz or rasmol2.zip. Microsoft Windows users should retrieve RasWin.zip and optionally the Visual Basic package RasMenu.zip both of which contain executable .EXE files. All these files include source code, on-line help, user manual and reference card. Please remember to use "binary" mode when transferring these files between systems. Check that the file size is the same before and after transfer. MolViewer --------- From: Steve Ludtke It is a molecule viewing App for machines running NeXTStep. It permits interactive rotation and manipulation (bond lengths, angles, and dihedrals) of molecules of arbitrary size (depends on your memory). Some special features are included for protein analysis. Proteins can be generated from scratch if the program is given an amino acid sequence and secondary structure. A variety of animations are supported. Animations and printing are generated by NeXT's Photorealistic Renderman daemon. File formats supported (to varying degrees) include: PDB, Alchemy, HIN (hyperchem), and MolViewer's own file format. It is freeware. Full source and binaries can be obtained from ion.rice.edu, sonata.cc.purdue.edu and several other popular NeXT sites. The current version is 0.91. [ I saw it on comp.sys.amiga.applications - added some formatting. For the people who wonder - Aminet is an FTP sites organization that keeps huge amounts of stuff for the Commodore Amiga ] From: bss104@bangor.ac.uk ( Chris Graham) ========================= Molec 3D -------- This is a non-commerical package. It models both frame work structures (which can be rotated and transformed) and also ball and stick models. The ball and stick pictures are generated from snapshots of the framework model. Each ball and stick snapshot takes only about 10-15secs to render even on my trusty 1 meg a500. To construct a model, you need to write a data file which contains the xyz coordinates of each atom. The package is very user friendly and the manual is adequate. Oh yes, also has a built in facility for reading your data files back to you. Available for ftp from your local aminet site - Fish disk 482 MoG --- This is a commerical package. It's available from SciTech Software in the U.K. The full address and price, along with a more detailed description of the package are in a comp.sys.reviews.amiga article written by Augustus Fountain III (he also provides a iff file of morphine which was created on MoG). There is also a demo version floating about as well. I found a copy in the hensa micros gopher server, lancs, U.K. This is a crippled version which I was unable to get to do anything other thud up. More iff files of dna and others are included. Chemesthetics ------------- Again non-commerical. And again you can find this on Aminet on fish disk 777 (Chemesthetics.lha). This a rather nice package as well as you build carlotte projections (is that spelt right?). Works on the same principle as Molec3D but needs the ionic radius of each atom as well. Unlike the Molec3D package you can actually enter data in the actual package rather than having to resort to a text editor. It does however have one drawback the rendering times are fairly long on my amiga at least - about 3 hours for 250 atoms. Which I suppose isn't too bad all things considered. cpk --- Bit of a misnomer this one. Only runs on an aga amigas, so I haven't had a chance to try it out. Judging by the descriptions in the readme file and emails I've received this sounds excellent. Arexx support. Again you can get this from Aminet (what we do without internet file servers eh - probably buy a CD-ROM I suppose). ----- [ I would also suggest looking at least in SGI's Applications Directory. It contains many more packages - nfotis ] =========================================================================== End of Part 5 of the Resource Listing -- Nick (Nikolaos) Fotis National Technical Univ. of Athens, Greece HOME: 16 Esperidon St., InterNet : nfotis@theseas.ntua.gr Halandri, GR - 152 32 UUCP: pythia!theseas!nfotis Athens, GREECE FAX: (+30 1) 77 84 578 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 14:16:57 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 6/6] Message-ID: Followup-To: poster Lines: 1496 Sender: nfotis@theseas.ntua.gr (Nick C. Fotis) Reply-To: nfotis@theseas.ntua.gr (Nick (Nikolaos) Fotis) Organization: National Technical University of Athens, Greece Date: Mon, 3 Oct 1994 17:20:59 GMT Approved: news-answers-request@MIT.Edu Xref: tusol.cs.trinity.edu comp.graphics:3094 comp.answers:1007 news.answers:3325 Archive-name: graphics/resources-list/part6 Last-modified: 1994/10/03 Computer Graphics Resource Listing : BIWEEKLY POSTING [ PART 6/6 ] ================================================================== Last Change : 3 Octomber 1994 Subject: 18. 3D graphics editors ======================= a. Public domain, free and shareware systems ============================================ VISION-3D --------- Mac-based program written by Paul D. Bourke (pdbourke@ccu1.aukland.ac.nz). The program can be used to generate models directly in the RayShade and Radiance file formats (polygons only). It's shareware and listed on the FTP list. BRL --- A solid modeling system for most environments -- including SGI and X11. It has CSG and NURBS, plus support for Non-Manifold Geometry [Whatever it is]. You can get it *free* via FTP by signing and returning the relevant license, found on ftp.brl.mil. Uses ray-tracing for engineering analyses. Contact: Ms. Carla Moyer (410)-273-7794 tel. (410)-272-6763 FAX cad-dist@brl.mil E-mail Snail mail: BRL-CAD Distribution SURVIAC Aberdeen Satellite Office 1003 Old Philadelphia Road, Suite 103 Aberdeen MD 21001 USA IRIT ---- A constructive solid geometry (CSG) modeling program for PC, Amigas and X11. Includes freeform surface support. Free - see FTP list for where to find it. SurfModel --------- A solid modeling program for PC written in Turbo Pascal 6.0 by Ken Van Camp. Available from SIMTEL, pd1: directory. NOODLES ------- From CMU, namely Fritz Printz and Levent Gursoz (elg@styx.edrc.cmu.edu). It's based on Non Manifold Topology. Ask them for more info, I don't know if they give it away. XYZ2 ---- XYZ2 is an interactive 3-D editor/builder written by Dale P. Stocker to create objects for the SurfaceModel, Automove, and DKB raytracer packages. XYZ2 is free and can be found, for example, in SIMTEL20 as XYZ21.ZIP (DOS only??) 3DMOD ----- It's an MSDOS program. Check at barnacle.erc.clarkson.edu [128.153.28.12], /pub/msdos/graphics/3dmod.* . Undocumented file format :-( 3DMOD is (C) 1991 by Micah Silverman, 25 Pierrepoint Ave., Postdam, New York 13676, tel. 315-265-7140 NORTHCAD -------- Shareware, NCAD3D42.ZIP in SIMTEL20. Undocumented file format :-( Vertex ------ (Amiga) Shareware, send $40 US (check or money order) to: The Art Machine, 4189 Nickolas Sterling Heights, MI 48310 USA In addition to the now standard file formats, including Lightwave, Imagine, Sculpt, Turbo Silver, GEO and Wavefront, this release offers 3D Professional and RayShade support. (Rayshade is supported only by the primitive "triangle", but you can easily include this output in your RayShade scripts) The latest demo, version 1.62, is available on Fred Fish #727. For more information, contact the author, Alex Deburie, at: ad99s461@sycom.mi.org, Phone: (313) 939-2513 ICoons ------ (Amiga) It's a spline based object modeller ("ICoons" = Interactive COONS path editor) in amiga.physik.unizh.ch (gfx/3d/ICoons1.0.lzh). It's free (under the GNU Licence) and requires FPU. The program has a look&feel which is a cross between Journeyman and Imagine, and it generates objects in TTDDD format. It is possible to load Journeyman objects into ICoons, so the program can be used to convert JMan objects to Imagine format. Author: Helge E. Rasmussen PHONE + 45 36 72 33 00, FAX + 45 36 72 43 00 [ It's also on Fred Fish disk series n.775 - nfotis ] ProtoCAD 3D ----------- Ver 1.1 from Trius (shareware?) It's at wsmr-simtel20.army.mil and oak.oakland.edu as PCAD3D.ZIP (for PCs) It has this menu layout: FILE File handling (Load, Save, Import, Xport...) DRAW Draw 2D objects (Line, Circle, Box...) 3D Draw 3D objects (Mesh, Sphere, Block...) EDIT Editing features (Copy, Move ...) SURFACE Modify objects (Revolve, Xtrude, Sweep...) IMAGE Image zooming features (Update, Window, Half...) OPTION Global defaults (Grid, Toggles, Axis...) PLOT Print drawing/picture (Go, Image...) RENDER Shade objects (Frame, Lighting, Tune...) LAYER Layer options (Select active layer, set Colors...) Sculptura --------- Runs under Windows 3.1, and outputs PoV files. A demo can be found on wuarchive.wustl.edu in mirrors/win3/demo/demo3d.zip Author: Michael Gibson 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 newest version of POVCAD for Windows is 3.0a and it supports PoV, Polyray, RAW data and DXF in/out. Some of the features include - spheres - cones - disc/washer - box - ellipsoid - torus - sweep objects - extruded objects - polygon decomposition - Extrude along a path command - Bezier patches - BSpline and Catmull-Rom curve fitting - etc... POVCAD author wrote the book titled "Adventures in Raytracing" published by QUE. It covers Polyray (raytracer), 3D modeling with POVCAD and animation. Cost is $27.95 (US). Includes a disk with all the software needed to create the scenes in the book. The package is available in Pi Square BBS (see the BBS section for location), TGA BBS, Compu$serve(GraphDev forum). Use Archie to find it in FTP sites. Author: Alfonso Hermida Blob Sculptor ------------- Alfonso Hermida, Steve Anger and Truman Brown have developed a blob modeler called "Blob Sculptor". It handles spherical blob components at this point but tori, cylinders, ellipsoids and cones are on the way. Blob Sculptor outputs to: RAW, DXF, BLB (internal format), CTDS, POV, POLYRAY and RAYSHADE. Blob Sculptor 1.0a runs on PC with a VGA and mouse, coprocessor required. It's distributed as FREEWARE. Where to download it: CompuServe , GraphDev forum TGA BBS (510)524-2780 California, USA Pi Squared BBS (301)725-9080 Maryland USA FreeForm -------- (Amiga) FreeForm is a super-fast, real-time, 3D Bspline and NURB like curve surface modeler, with many features; including on-line Amigaguide help and the ability to open up in any Amiga screen resolution. Automatic Bones creation and modeling with bones. Rail extrusion. Morph extrusion. Morph tweening of objects, with the ability to save a tween object for use. Cross section skinning. Realtime 3D space perspective view, with point modifcation. and more..... Export your objects to: 1.Lightwave 2.Imagine 3.Aladdin 4.Caligari 5.Real3D2 You can FTP it from any Aminet site, like ftp.wustl.edu, directory pub/aminet/gfx/3d. The latest uploaded version is called FreeForm3D1.6. 1.7 is the latest version, but 1.6 is close enough to it, to see what it can do. Author: Fori Owurowa (Please start your Subject: line with "Fori", in order to be able to sort it out from the rest of his mail) b. Commercial systems ===================== Alpha_1 ------- A spline-based modeling program written in University of Utah. Features: splines up to trimmed NURBS; support for boolean operations; sweeps, bending, warping, flattening etc.; groups of objects, and transformations; extensible object types. Applications include: NC machining, Animation utilities, Dimensioning, FEM analysis, etc. Rendering subsystem, with support for animations. Support the following platforms: HP 300 and 800's (X11R4, HP-UX 6.5), SGI 4D or PI machines (X11R4 and GL, IRIX 3.3.1), Sun SparcStation (X11R4, SunOS 4.1.1). Licensing and distribution is handled by EGS: Glenn McMinn, President Engineering Geometry Systems 275 East South Temple, Suite 305 Salt Lake City, UT 84111 (801) 575-6021 mcminn@cs.utah.edu [ Educational pricing ] The charge is $675 per platform. You may run the system on as many different workstations of that type as you wish. For each platform there is also a $250 licensing fee for Portable Standard Lisp (PSL) which is bundled with the system. You need to obtain an additional license from the University of Utah for PSL from the following address: Professor Robert Kessler Computer Science Department University of Utah Salt Lake City, Utah 84112 [ EGS can handle the licensing of PSL for U.S. institutions for a 300 $USD nominal fee -- nfotis ] VERTIGO ------- They have an Educational Institution Program. The package is used in the industrial design, architectural, scientific visualization, educational, broadcast, imaging and post production fields. They'll [quoting from a letter sent to me -- nfotis ] "donate fully configured Vertigo 3D Graphics Software worth over $29,000USD per package to qualified educational institutions for licencing on any number of Silicon Graphics Personal IRIS or POWER Series Workstations. If you use an IRIS Indigo station, we will also licence our Vertigo Revolution Software (worth $12,000USD). If you are interested in participating in this program please send a letter by mail or fax (604/684-2108) on your institution's letterhead briefly outlining your potential uses for Vertigo together with the following information: 1. UNIX version 2. Model and number of SGI systems 3. Peripheral devices 4. Third Party Software. Participants will be asked to contribute $750USD per institution to cover costs of the manual, administration, and shipping. We recommend that Vertigo users subscribe to our technical support services. For an annual fee you will receive: technical assistance on our support hotline, bug fixes, software upgrades and manual updates. For educational institution we will waive the $750 administration fee if support is purchased. The annual support fee is $2,500 plus the following cost for additional machines: Number of machines: 2-20 20+ Additional cost per machine: $700 $600 " [ There's also a 5-day training program - nfotis] Contact: Vertigo Technology INC Suite 1010 1030 West Georgia St. VANCOUVER, BC CANADA, V6E 2Y3 Phone: 604/684-2113 Fax: 604/684-2108 [ Does anyone know of such offers from TDI, Alias, Softimage, Wavefront, etc.??? this would be a VERY interesting part!! -- nfotis ] PADL-2 ------ [ Basically, it's a Solid Modeling Kernel in top of which you build your application(s)] Available by license from Cornell Programmable Automation Cornell University 106 Engineering and Theory Center Ithaca, NY 14853 License fees are very low for educational institutions and gov't agencies. Internal commercial licenses and re-dissemination licenses are available. For an information packet, write to the above address, or send your address to: marisa@cpa.tn.cornell.edu (Richard Marisa) ACIS ---- From Spatial Technology. It's a Solid Modelling kernel callable from C. Heard that many universities got free copies from the company. The person to contact regarding ACIS in academic institutions is Scott Owens, e-mail: sdo@spatial.com And their address is: Spatial Technology, Inc. 2425 55th St., Bldg. A Boulder, CO 80301-5704 Phone: (303) 449-0649, Fax: (303) 449-0926 MOVIE-BYU / CQUEL.BYU --------------------- Basically [in my understanding], this is a FEM pre- and post-proccessor system. It's fairly old today, but it still serves some people in Mech. Eng. Depts. Now it's superseded from CQUEL.BYU (pronounced "sequel"). That's a complete modelling, animation and visualization package. Runs in the usual workstation environments (SUN, DEC, HP, SGI, IBM RS6000, and others) You can get a demo version (30-days trial period) either by sending $20 USD in their address or a blank tape. It costs 1,500 for a full run-time licence. Contact: Engineering Computer Graphics Lab 368 Clyde Building, Brigham Young Univ. Provo, UT 84602 Phone: 801-378-2812 E-mail: cquel@byu.edu twixt ----- Soon to add stuff about it... If I get a reply to my FAX VOXBLAST -------- From: boyd knosp ---------------- VOXBLAST from Vaytek is available on SGI, HP, Sun, DEC and IBM RS6000 workstations, Macintosh II workstations and PC compatibles Windows/DOS systems. VOXBLAST is not only a volume renderer, it is an analytical tool for exploring and interogating voxel datasets. It has several segmentation tools built into it and has 3d isodensity surface extraction capability. Contact: Vaytek Inc. (Fairfield, Iowa phone: 515-472-2227) VoxelBox -------- A 3D Volume renderer for Windows. Features include direct ray-traced volume rendering, color and alpha mapping, gradient lighting, animation, reflections and shadows. Runs on a PC(386 or higher) with at least an 8 bit video card(SVGA is fine) under Windows 3.x. It costs $495. Contact: Jaguar Software Inc. 573 Main St., Suite 9B Winchester, MA 01890 (617) 729-3659 jwp@world.std.com (john w poduska) ========================================================================== Subject: 19. GIS (Geographical Information Systems software) =================================================== +[ From users of GIS packages ] GRASS ----- (Geographic Resource Analysis Support System) of the US Army Construction Engineering Research Lab (CERL). It is a popular geographic and remote sensing image processing package. Many may think of GRASS as a Geographic Information System rather than an Image Processing package, although it is reported to have significant image processing capabilities. Feature Descriptions I use GRASS because it's public domain and can be obtained through the internet for free. GRASS runs in Unix and is written in C. The source code can be obtained through an anonymous ftp from the Office of Grass Integration. You then compile the source code for your machine, using scripts provided with GRASS. I would recommend GRASS for someone who already has a workstation and is on a limited budget. GRASS is not very user-friendly, compared to Macintosh software." A first review of overview documentation indicates that it looks useful and has some pixel resampling functions not in other packages plus good general purpose image enhancement routines (fft). Kelly Maurice at Vexcel Corp. in Boulder, CO is a primary user of GRASS . This gentleman has used the GRASS software and developed multi-spectral (238 bands ??) volumetric rendering, full color, on Suns and Stardents. It was a really effective interface. Vexcel Corp. currently has a contract to map part of Venus and convert the Magellan radar data into contour maps. You can call them at (303) 444-0094 or email care of greg@vexcel.com 192.92.90.68 Host Configuration Requirements If you are willing to run A/UX you could install GRASS on a Macintosh which has significant image analysis and import capabilities for satellite data. GRASS is public-domain, and can run on a high-end PC under UNIX. It is raster-based, has some image-processing capability, and can display vector data (but analysis must be done in the raster environment). I have used GRASS V.3 on a SUN workstation and found it easy to use. It is best, of course, for data that are well represented in raster (grid-cell) form. Availability CERL's Office of Grass Integration (OGI) maintains an ftp server: moon.cecer.army.mil (129.229.20.254). Mail regarding this site should be addressed to grass-ftp-admin@moon.cecer.army.mil. This location will be the new "canonical" source for GRASS software, as well as bug fixes, contributed sources, documentation, and other files. This FTP server also supports dynamic compression and uncompression and "tar" archiving of files. A feature attraction of the server is John Parks' GRASS tutorial. Because the manual is still in beta-test stage, John requests that people only acquire it if they are willing to review it and mail him comments/corrections. The OGI is not currently maintaining this document, so all correspondence about it should be directed to grassx@tang.uark.edu Support Listserv mailing lists: grassu-list@amber.cecer.army.mil (for GRASS users; application-level questions, support concerns, miscellaneous questions, etc) Send subscribe commands to grassu-request@amber.cecer.army.mil. grassp-list@amber.cecer.army.mil (for GRASS programmers; system-level questions and tips, tricks, and techniques of design and implementation of GRASS applications) Send subscribe commands to grassp-request@amber.cecer.army.mil. Both lists are maintained by the Office of Grass Integration (subset of the Army Corps of Engineers Construction Engineering Research Lab in Champaign, IL). The OGI is providing the lists as a service to the community; while OGI and CERL employees will participate in the lists, we can make no claim as to content or veracity of messages that pass through the list. If you have questions, problems, or comments, send E-mail to lists-owner@amber.cecer.army.mil and a human will respond. Microstation Imager ------------------- Intergraph (based in Huntsville Alabama) sells a wide range of GIS software/hardware. Microstation is a base graphics package that Imager sits on top of. Imager is basically an image processing package with a heavy GIS/remote sensing flavor. Feature Description Basic geometry manipulations: flip, mirror, rotate, generalized affine. Rectification: Affine, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th order models as well as a projective model (warp an image to a vector map or to another image). RGB to IHS and IHS to RGB conversion. Principal component analysis. Classification: K-means and isodata. Fourier Xforms: Forward, filtering and reverse. Filters: High pass, low pass, edge enhancing, median, generic. Complex Histogram/Contrast control. Layer Controller: manages up to 64 images at a time -- user can extract single bands from a 3 band image or create color images by combining various individual bands, etc. The package is designed for a remote sensing application (it can handle VERY LARGE images) and there is all kinds of other software available for GIS applications. Host Configuration Requirements It runs on Intergraph Workstations (a Unix machine similar to a Sun) though there were rumors (there are always rumors) that the software would be ported to PC and possibly a Sun environment. PCI --- A company called PCI, Inc., out of Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada, makes an array of software utilities for processing, manipulation, and use of remote sensing data in eight or ten different "industry standard" formats: LGSOWG, BSQ, LANDSAT, and a couple of others whose titles I forget. The software is available in versions for MS-DOS, Unix workstations (among them HP, Sun, and IBM), and VMS, and quite possibly other platforms by now. I use the VMS version. The "PCI software" consists of several classes/groups/packages of utilities, grouped by function but all operating on a common "PCI database" disk file. The "Tape I/O" package is a set of utility programs which read from the various remote-sensing industry tape formats INTO, or write those formats out FROM, the "PCI database" file; this is the only package I use or know much about. Other packages can display data from the PCI database to one or another of several PCI-supported third-party color displays, output numeric or bitmap representation of image data to an attached printer, e.g. an Epson-type dot-matrix graphics printer. You might be more spe- cifically interested in the mathematical operations package: histo- gram and Fourier analysis, equalization, user-specified operations (e.g. "multiply channel 1 by 3, add channel 2, and store as channel 5"), and God only knows what all else -- there's a LOT. I don't have and don't use these, so can't say much about them; you only buy the packages your particular application/interest calls for. Each utility is controlled by from one to eight "parameters," read from a common "parameter file" which must be (in VMS anyway) in your "default directory." Some utilities will share parameters and use the same parameter for a different purpose, so it can get a bit confusing setting up a series of operations. The standard PCI environment contains a scripting language very similar to IBM-PC BASIC, but which allows you to automate the process of setting up parameters for a common, complicated, lengthy or difficult series of utility executions. (In VMS I can also invoke utilities independently from a DCL command procedure.) There's also an optional programming library which allows you to write compiled language programs which can interface with (read from/write to) the PCI data structures (database file, parameter file). The PCI software is designed specifically for remote-sensing images, but requires such a level of operator expertise that, once you reach the level where you can handle r-s images, you can figure out ways to handle a few other things as well. For instance, the Tape I/O package offers a utility for reading headerless multi-band (what Adobe PhotoShop on the Macintosh calls "raw") data from tape, in a number of different "interleave" orders. This turns out to be ideal for manipulating the graphic-arts industry's "CT2T" format, would probably (I haven't tried) handle Targa, and so on. Above all, however, you HAVE TO KNOW WHAT YOU'RE DOING or you can screw up to the Nth degree and have to start over. It's worth noting that the PCI "database" file is designed to contain not only "raster" (image) data, but vectors (for overlaying map information entered via digitizing table), land-use, and all manner of other information (I observe that a remote-sensing image tape often contains all manner of information about the spectral bands, latitude, longitude, time, date, etc. of the original satellite pass; all of this can go into the PCI "database"). I _believe_ that on workstations the built-in display is used. On VAX systems OTHER than workstations PCI supports only a couple of specific third-party display systems (the name Gould/Deanza seems to come to mind). One of MY personal workarounds was a display program which would display directly from a PCI "database" file to a Peritek VCT-Q (Q-bus 24-bit DirectColor) display subsystem. PCI software COULD be "overkill" in your case; it seems designed for the very "high end" applications/users, i.e. those for whom a Mac/PC largely doesn't suffice (although as you know the gap is getting smaller all the time). It's probably no coincidence that PCI is located in Canada, a country which does a LOT of its land/resource management via remote sensing; I believe the Canadian government uses PCI software for some of its work in these areas. [ Note: another colleague found these addresses re. PCI: PCI Remote Sensing Corporation 1925 N. Lynn Street, Suite 803 Arlington, VA 22209 tel: 703 243 3700 fax: 703 243 3705 or you could email the Toronto HQ support@pci.on.ca ] SPAM (Spectral Analysis Manager) -------------------------------- Back in 1985 JPL developed something called SPAM (Spectral Analysis Manager) which got a fair amount of use at the time. That was designed for Airborne Imaging Spectrometer imagery (byte data, <= 256 pixels across by <= 512 lines by <= 256 bands); a modified version has since been developed for AVIRIS (Airborne VIsual and InfraRed Imaging Spectrometer) which uses much larger images. Spam does none of these things (rectification, classification, PC and IHS transformations, filtering, contrast enhancement, overlays). Actually, it does limited filtering and contrast enhancement (stretching). Spam is aimed at spectral identification and clustering. The original Spam uses X or SunView to display. The AVIRIS version may require VICAR, an executive based on TAE, and may also require a frame buffer. I can refer you to people if you're interested. PCW requires X for display. MAP II ------ Among the Mac GIS systems, MAP II is distributed by John Wiley. CLRview ------- CLRview is a 3-dimensional visualization program designed to exploit the real-time capabilities of Silicon Graphics IRIS computers. This program is designed to provide a core set of tools to aid in the visualization of information from CAD and GIS sources. It supports the integration of many common but disperate data sources such as DXF, TIN, DEM, Lattices, and Arc/Info Coverages among others. CLRview can be obtained from explorer.dgp.utoronto.ca (128.100.1.129) in the directory pub/sgi/clrview. Contact: Rodney Hoinkes Head of Design Applications Centre for Landscape Research University of Toronto Tel: (416) 978-7197 Email: rodney@dgp.utoronto.ca ER-Mapper --------- ER-Mapper 4.0 is an X11-based package for the Sun. It is designed to display earth resource data such as satellite and airphoto images, aeomagnetic or gravity surveys, seismic timeslices, etc. Vector data from GIS databases is also supported. Images from different sources can be "warped" to a common coordinate system and displayed together onto a single picture. Algorithms for filtering and combining different sensor bands are easily customized, and interfaces for your own C or Fortran filters are built-in. Lots of import facilities for various generations of Landsat, SPOT, airphoto, seismic, etc. Display types include artificial sun, pixel spectrometer, pseudocolor or RGB or HLS, etc. You can import satellite, airborne, geophysical, seismic, and other types of data, and interactively integrate raster, vector, and tabular data. ER Mapper imports data in over 90+ formats, and renders output to 185+ hardcopy devices. The demo CD (450MB) contains 300MB of example images and algorithms for highlighting vegetation, cloud cover, etc from satellite imagery, mineral types from radiometry data, and so forth. San Diego and Australia feature prominently in the example images :-) Package is based on Open-Look toolkit, but works with Motif Window Manager. Can display on multiple X displays simultaneously. Lots of online PostScript manuals displayed with GNU Ghostscript. Documentation is excellent, and includes tutorials and examples. Demo CD is free. Full-use one-month evaluation license is $200, and you can keep the manuals. Full floating license costs vary depending on tax rates, import duties, etc. (ie: read "expensive") Educational license include 5 floating licenses at a 90% discount and restrictions on how the software may be used (Education clients must not compete for commercial contracts with commercial clients ; details of post-grad students and their projects, etc.) Addresses: USA office: Australian office: Earth Resource Mapping Earth Resource Mapping Pty Ltd Suite 900 Level 1 4370 La Jolla Village Road 87 Colin Street San Diego, CA, USA 92122 West Perth, Western Australia 6005 Telephone: +1 619 558-4709 Telephone: +61 9 388 2900 Facsimile: +1 619 558-2657 Facsimile: +61 9 388 2901 email: queries@ermusa.com PC MOSS ------- From: bthoen@teal.csn.org (Bill Thoen) I have recently posted the source code to PC MOSS at csn.org. To get it, ftp to csn.org and look in the COGS/MOSS directory for mosssrc.zip and mosssrc2.zip. It's public domain code and written in FORTRAN. MOSS is a raster-based GIS system widely used by the US BLM and others. The workstation version is several revs ahead of the PC version, and (in case you're wondering) the PC version is no longer being updated. The MOSS source code (and many other GIS-oriented files not on this ftp site) can also be found on GISnet BBS. GISnet's number is (303) 447-0927, (Boulder, Colorado) and you can call anytime at 1200, 2400, 9600 baud. However file downloading from GISnet requires a subscription ($48/yr), but you *can* download the full list of files, and a few other files for no charge. Please don't ask me questions about how to compile, link, etc. or anything about the algorithms involved in this code. I just put this out there because I think it may be of interest, but I can't offer tech support, because I don't know it very well myself. Smallworld ---------- From: Neil Pawson The Unix based Smallworld GIS is written using the object orientated language Magik, which makes the system highly customizable. Includes integrated raster and vector data, version managed database (which allows the storage of multiple versions of all aspects of data, even raster, in a single database), a "virtual database" concept which allows the integration of commercial databases such as Oracle and Ingres), a seamless mapbase and a CASE tool to aid design and development of new applications. The package is popular with utility companies and local governments as non-technical users find it easy to learn and use. email: World.Sales@smallworld.co.uk UK.Sales@smallworld.co.uk Smallworld Systems Brunswick House 61-69 Newmarket Road Cambridge, U.K. Phone: +44 223 460199 Suite 2120 6860 S. Yosemite Court Englewood, CO 80112 Phone: (303) 779-6980 Fax: (303) 796-0545 Chicago marketing office: (312) 482-9431 ========================================================================== Subject: 20. User Interface Builders =========================== [ This part is under construction, er editing. In the meantime, send me anything you have on the subject!! -- nfotis ] I'll have *much* work to do on it --- this is an "alpha-0.3" version!!!! [ Here are the thoughts of a netter - do you agree with these categorizations???? Any more suggestions??? Don't forget that I have *very* limited time these days :-( ------ nfotis ] TODO: Add an entry for SUIT (was in the first part of the Listing) -- snip snip -- Your also missing Object Pascal and it's associated libraries. It is with out doubt currently the single most important tap root for the ideas that other systems have. It's class library can be found reimplemented in C++, Smalltalk, et.al. Your entry on Garnet would do well to buffer the comment about it's size with a comment that it is very elegant and constraint based from the bottom up. It is hard to sort out these systems. You might decorate each entry with a keyword list. Here are some suggested keywords: Language the UI designer works in. c++ -- requires C++ fortran -- requires fortran cltl2 -- requires common lisp 2 custom -- aka Hypertalk, et. al. Platforms unix mac win/16 win/32s win/nt etc. Widgets supported buttons charts tables little-text hugh-text Cost free free-but-gnu-license free-but-other no-runtime-license etc. Layer in question rendering -- i.e. display postscript, etc. little-widget-set -- i.e. buttons, dialogs, etc. big-widget-set -- I.e. tables, charts, rich text. authoring-environment -- I.e. Things like hypercard. The layer thing is important to me. I suspect that the majority of UI building that is taking place today, and will take place in the future is in the context of "closed" authoring systems. Hypercard, Excel, the Newton SDK, and the PC database packages are all examples of this trend. Much of the client server software is like this. Most of these have some little language embedded in them. The bottom layer, rendering hasn't stablized yet. Postscript sets a very high bar and we are going to have to read it. The new quickdraw is but one example of this. The little widget layer is to slim to be important, but it is easy enough that a lot of system due just it. The big-widget-set layer is extremely rare, and very hard. --- snip snip --- [ Raw material collected here and there - It needs to receive a whole day editing session :-( ] Xm++ ---- From: ken@grover.lasc.lockheed.com (Ken Wood) --- A user interface builder that comes from the University of Vienna. It is a C++ based class library that really has some nice features. It's only in beta release now (v. 0.51), but seems pretty stable. We got our copy from ipcl.rvs.uni-hannover.de under /ftp1/X11/contrib, and the developers point of contact is xmplus@ani.univie.ac.at. >From: X11 FAQ DIRT ---- A new release of the DIRT interface builder by Richard Hesketh works with X11R5 and includes some support for the Motif widget set. From the README: This builder allows the interactive creation and rapid prototyping of X user interfaces using the X Toolkit and a number of Widget Sets. Dirt generates "Wc - Widget Creation" resource files and this distribution also includes the Widget Creation Library (version 1.06, with the exception of the demos and Mri/Ari source code) with the kind permission of its author David E. Smyth. Check dirt.README, dirt.A2.0.tar.Z, and dirt.PS.Z on export.lcs.mit.edu:contrib. Interviews ---------- The InterViews 3.0.1 C++ toolkit contains a WYSIWIG interface builder called ibuild. ibuild generates code for an InterViews application complete with Imakefile and an X-resource file. Documentation is /pub/papers/ibuild.ps on interviews.stanford.edu (36.22.0.175). ObjectViews ----------- Quest Windows's (408-496-1900) ObjectViews C++ package includes an interactive building tool. DRUID ----- Druid (Demonstrational Rapid User Interface Development) runs on SPARC machines using OSF/Motif 1.0; it is intended eventually to be a full UIMS but apparently now has only support for creating the presentation components, for which it generates C/UIL code. Info: Singh G, Kok CH, Ngan TY, "Druid: A System for Demonstrational Rapid User Interface Development". Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH Symp on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST'90). ACM, NY, 1990, pp:167-177. BYO --- The BYO interface builder is implemented in tcl. Commercial Products =================== These commercial products (unsorted) are available in final or prerelease form [the * following the product name indicates that the product is known to allow the designer to specify for each widget whether a particular resource is hard-coded or written to an application defaults file, for at least one form of output]. Some are much more than user-interface tools; some are full user interface management systems: Product Name Look/Feel Code Output Vendor HP Interface Motif 1.1 C(Xm) HP/Visual Edge Architect/ UIMX OPEN LOOK Express OPEN LOOK C(Xol+ helper lib) AT&T/Visual Edge UIMX 2.0 * Motif 1.1 C(Xm + helper code) Visual Edge 514-332-6430 & distributors VUIT 2.0 Motif 1.1 C/UIL[r/w] DEC (1-800-DIGITAL) X-Designer 1.1 * Motif 1.1 C(Xm); C/UIL Imperial Software Technology, Ltd (+44 734 587055) sales@ist.co.uk ******* From: John Methot XDesigner is now at version 3.0. It is developed by Imperial Software Technology, Ltd. (UK), but is sold in the US by V.I. Corporation, 47 Pleasant Street, Northampton, MA 01060, (413)586-4144. It generates C (K&R or ANSI) or C++ that is pure Xm/Xt code, or UIL. It also generates resource files and callback stub files. It requires X11R5 and Motif 1.2. It also has several options for code structure (widget hierarchies can be generated into structures, classes or subroutines) that are settable on a per-widget basis. It also includes a compound string editor, a color editor, and a (color) pixmap editor, as well as a graphical layout editor for creating form attachments interactively. A live version of the interface under construction is always visible (no "edit" and "test" modes). A five day training class is available from V.I. Corporation (I teach it). XFaceMaker2 (XFM2) * Motif 1.0 C;C/script (C-like procedural language);C/UIL NSL (33 1 43 36 77 50) requests@nsl.fr Builder Xcessory 2.0 * Motif 1.1 C(Xm); C/UIL[r/w] ICS (617-621-0060) info@ics.com XBUILD 1.1 * Motif 1.0 C(Xm); C/UIL Nixdorf (617-864-0066) xbuild@nixdorf.com iXBUILD Motif 1.1 C(Xm); C/UIL iXOS Software karl@ixos.uucp 089/461005-69 TeleUSE 1.1 Motif 1.1 PCD (like UIL);C + helper lib 089/461005-69 TeleUSE 1.1 Motif 1.1 PCD (like UIL);C + helper lib Telesoft (619-457-2700) ezX 3.2 Motif 1.1 C(Xm +helper lib);C/UIL;Ada Sunrise (401-847-7868) info@sunrise.com Snapix Motif C/Xm ADNT +33 1 3956 5333 OpenWindows Developers OPEN LOOK GIL [-> C/XView] Sun Guide 3.0 GIL [-> C++/XView] GIL [-> C/OLIT] GIL [-> C/PostScript for TNT] ExoCode/SXM Motif C(Xm) Expert Object ExoCode/Plus OPEN LOOK XView 708-676-5555 TAE+ Xw;Motif C(Xw,Xm); C/TCL (TAE Control Language, like UIL[needs helper library]); VAX Fortran; Ada Nasa Goddard (301) 286-6034 [ I have seen the docs; tends to be massive! Call COSMIC for price details ] MOB, XSculptor Motif; OpenLook C/Xm,UIL; C/Xol Kovi 408-982-3840 PSM PM, MSW 3.0, C/UIL Lancorp Motif 1.1.2,Mac Pty Ltd. +61 3 629 4833 Fax: 629 1296 (Australia) MOTIFATION Motif 1.0|1.1.2 C(Xm) AKA EDV +49 (0) 234/33397-0 +49 (0) 234/33397-40 fax [ See below about Motification ] UIB Open Look/Motif C++(OI) ParcPlace +1 303-678-4626 Look for magazine reviews for more complete comparisons of meta-file formats, documentation, real ease-of-use, etc; Unix World and Unix Review often carry articles. In addition, Neuron Data (1 415 321-4488) makes Open Interface, a window-system-independent object toolkit which supports interfaces which are or resemble (supersets of) Mac, Windows, and Motif and Open Look; the package includes an interface builder. GRAMMI ------ The GRAMMI builder supports the development of Ada/X applications using its own set of objects which are planned to have a Motif look. GRAMMI is written in Ada and generates Ada specs and stub bodies. (1-800-GRAMMI-1). non-WYSIWYG =========== These non-WYSIWYG but related products may help for goals of rapid prototyping of the application interface: WCL --- the Widget Creation Library. Basically describes the widget hierarchy and actions in a resources file; available from fine archive servers everywhere, including devvax.jpl.nasa.gov (128.149.1.143) in pub/. Wcl provides a very thin layer over Xt without any internal tweaking. WINTERP ------- An Xlisp-based Motif toolkit allows for interpretive programming. The copy on the R4 tape is outdated; get a copy off export or email to winterp-source%hplnpm@hplabs.hp.com. From: "Niels P. Mayer" --------------------- WINTERP 2.0 is now available via anonymous ftp and on the X Consortium's X11r6 "contrib" distribution. WINTERP home page for WWW/Mosaic: http://www.eit.com/software/winterp/winterp.html The latest version is now available via anonymous ftp from ftp.x.org directory contrib/devel_tools, file winterp-2.XX.README, winterp-2.02.tar.Z winterp-2.02.tar.gz. WINTERP -- the OSF/Motif Widget INTERPreter -- is a rapid prototyping, development and delivery environment for GUI-based applications on Unix platforms. WINTERP fills the same needs as TCL/TK or Python (or the windowing korn shell) but: (0) Provides a complete, object-oriented user-interface toolkit based on the standard OSF/Motif widget set and the X toolkit. (1) Uses a small, portable object-oriented Lisp interpreter (an event-driven version of Betz/Almy/Tierney-et-al's XLISP-PLUS). (2) Other applications may send programmatic commands to WINTERP's interpreter via unix domain or internet domain sockets. (3) High-level object-oriented 2.5D graphics and animation based on Stasko and Hayes Xtango path transition animation paradigm. (4) nonblocking GUI interfaces to multiple asynchronous interactive Unix subprocess (based on Don Libes' expect library with WINTERP extensions). Best of all, WINTERP 2.0 is a "one stop shopping" free application environment -- the full system (C-source, documentation, example programs) is available in one tar file -- you don't have to run around the net integrating interpreter, interface and "accessory" packages. Just add Motif 1.2, Unix, a C compiler, berkeley networking facilities (unix domain sockets), and X11r5 or X11r6... compile, and you're good to go. The system is quite portable -- so far, I know that WINTERP 2.0 works on Irix, Ultrix, OSF1, SunOS, Solaris, HPUX, Linux, NeXT-Step (w/ Co-Xist Motif/X), etc. Serpent UIMS ------------ The Serpent UIMS permits the building of user-interfaces without specific knowledge of coding but with an understanding of attributes being set on a particular [Motif] widget. Beta Release 1.2 is available from ftp.sei.cmu.edu (128.237.1.13) and can be found in /pub/serpent. Serpent is also available on export.lcs.mit.edu (18.24.0.11) in /contrib/serpent. Email questions can go to serpent@sei.cmu.edu. A commercial version of Serpent is available as "Agora" from ASET, 221 Woodhaven Drive, Pittsburgh, PA 15228. questions can go to serpent@sei.cmu.edu. A commercial version of Serpent is available as "Agora" from ASET, 221 Woodhaven Drive, Pittsburgh, PA 15228. Garnet ------ Garnet is a Common Lisp-based GUI toolkit. Information is available from garnet@cs.cmu.edu. ================= Metacard -------- MetaCard is a hypertext/Rapid Application Development environment similar to Apple/Claris Corporation's HyperCard. It's built on a custom C++ toolkit that works like Motif, but takes a fraction of the memory. You get the whole development environment including the interface builder and an unlimited distribution license for $495 (50% off for educational users). You can anonymously FTP a save-disabled distribution from ftp.metacard.com (directory MetaCard) or ftp.uu.net (directory vendor/MetaCard). We can also email it to you or send it out on a 3.5" floppy disk free of charge. Email to info@metacard.com for more information. KHOROS ------ Animate - Interactive Image Sequence Display Tool Cantata - Extensible Visual Programming Language Concert - A system for distributed X user interfaces (groupware) Editimage - Interactive Image Display & Manipulation Program Xprism2 and Xprism3 - Comprehensive 2D and 3D Plotting Packages Viewimage - A basic interactive program for surface rendering Warpimage - An interactive program for registering and warping images etc.etc. a. Use ftp to connect to pprg.eece.unm.edu. % ftp pprg.eece.unm.edu -or- % ftp 129.24.24.10 ============ >From: keithr@tekig1.PEN.TEK.COM (Keith D Rule) Newsgroups: comp.graphics Subject: Portable GUIs Date: 23 Jun 92 19:49:26 GMT I am interested in finding a portable GUI for a project I'm working on. My current requirements are that the GUI work with MS-Windows 3.1, and X/Motif or X/Openlook on a Sparc. I have found references to four different portable GUIs that initially seem like they may meet my requirements. They are: - XVT Software They are shipping a common GUI library and resource editor for MS-Windows, Macintosh, OS/2, X/Motif on Sparc, and will ship X/OpenLook on Sparc in a couple of months. The library is written in C and has a C++ wrapper available for it. They have training classes, and claim to have several commercial products based on it include Grammatik 5.0 (which is, in my opinion, a good program with an awful looking ui) They have the slickest brochure, and the steepest price. Their solution for 1 PC and 1 Sparc development system is slightly more than $10000. No royalties. - LIANT C++/Views They are currently shipping a MS-Windows version, and plan to ship a X/Motif version in Aug 92. The support includes a C++ library, a C++ browser, and a dialog generator (resource editor?). They claim they will port to other systems including the Apple Macintosh. Price $495 including source for the MS-Windows version, no royalties. Motif is not yet available. - Wndx They are shipping a common GUI and resource editor for MS-Window, OSF/Motif, the Mac, and DOS. Price $495 per platform, no royalties. - ZApp Currently support MS-Windows, will release OSF/Motif versions later this year. Price $195 include source for MS-Windows. No royalties. Motif not yet available. ========== >From: robert@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Robert Inder) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Interface Toolkit Survey Summary (300 lines) Date: 31 Jul 92 15:02:00 GMT Earlier this month, I asked people for pointers to information on interface tools or toolkits that I could use for building "evaluation" interfaces for yet-to-be-decided software. Here is the promised summary of the results. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ When I posted the question, I said I thought it was the sort of thing that should be a FAQ, and it is: there is relevant information in the FAQ lists of comp.windows.x and comp.lang.lisp. The Lisp FAQ has one-paragraph descriptions of the following systems: CLX, CLIM (Common Lisp Interface Manager), CLUE (Common Lisp User-interface Environment), CLIO (Common Lisp Interactive Objects), Lispworks Toolkit, CLM (Common Lisp Motif), GINA (Generic Interactive Application), IB (Interface Builder), EW (Express Windows), LispView, Garnet, Winterp, YYonX and Picasso. I have not included any information about systems that were mentioned only in the FAQ answers, although I have extracted the contact addresses or ftp locations. Although comp.lang.prolog does not have interface packages in its FAQ (not least because I don't think it has an established FAQ...) people told me of a number of prolog systems which do have interface packages associated with them. james@uk.ac.ed.caad tells me that Sepia Prolog and Sicstus both have user interface tools which operate as a separate process, communicating with Prolog over a pipe. gs@com.quintus tells me that Quintus also offer ProWindows, an addon interface which is "a much improved version of the PCR interface offered by several other vendors". Finally, ac@sunbim.be tells me that BIM Prolog comes with "Carmen", an interactive interface builder which can produce interfaces for both X and Sunview from a single design. Of the Lisp systems, CLX is said to be the "de facto" standard for obtaining X functionality in Common Lisp, coming free with the distribution of X and providing the functionality of Xlib within Lisp. TI have extended CLX to produce CLUE (Common Lisp User-interface Environment and CLIO (Common Lisp Interactive Objects), both of which are freely available. Clue is a toolkit that provides a range of standard components in an object-oriented way, based on CLOS. CLIO comes with CLUE, and provides definitions for the components that will typically be used in object-oriented interfaces. CLX and CLUE in turn have formed the basis of a spot of development work at University of Stuttgart, resulting in XIT (X User Interface Toolkit), which is described as a "framework for Common Lisp/CLOS applications". They are also used by the LispWorks Toolkit, which is used to build the sophisticated interface to Harlequin's "LispWorks", providing support for Motif, OpenLook and CLIM user interface standards. It includes both libraries and an application interface builder, and there is a version (PC Lispworks) which runs on PCs under Windows. WINTERP (Widget INTERPreter), which also comes free with the X distribution, was mentioned a number of times. Although it is lisp-based, it can be used as a free-standing tool for setting up applications using the Motif widget set. Garnet, from CMU, is a large, resource-hungry package for building interactive interfaces for Common Lisp systems that was mentioned a number of times. It offers a number of highly configurable high-level interface components and interaction drivers, including some support for gesture recognition. It uses its own object system, and includes interface building tools. GMD, the German National Research Center for Computer Science, produce a suite of software. CLM (Common Lisp Motif) is a gateway between Common Lisp and X, used by means of a collection of Lisp functions which communicate with a (possibly remote) CLM process, which in turn communicates with the X server. The CLM process is implemented in C, and is claimed to give good performance. GINA (Generic INteractive Application) embodies the "skeleton" of a CLOS application in CLM, together with a number of demonstration systems. An actual application can be built by adding to the skeleton provided in Gina. Finally, IB (Interface Builder) can be used to build windows for use within the GINA framework. It provides facilities for interactively arranging widgets, and generates code for use within GINA. A number of people mentioned "hypertext-ish" tools, with MetaCard and HyperLook being mentioned more than once. MetaCard is a product of "MetaCard Corporation", and a "save-disabled" version is available by ftp. It offers an interactive interface building environment, supporting a wide range of features, including multiple type faces and sizes, colour images and "visual effects". Event handlers are written MetaCard's scripting language, rather than as calbacks to some other laguage. HyperLook, from the Turing Institute, runs on OpenWindows. It too has an interactive interface builder (including facilities for editing postscript figures), and features the ability to change the interface while the application is running. Callbacks are written in C or other languages. HyperNews---the "pre-productised" version of HyperLook, was also mentioned, and comes with "bindings" (que?) for C, Lisp and Prolog. The Andrew Toolkit (ATK), a substantial X-based package package from CMU, was also mentioned. The fact that the official descriptions emphasise its use for "communication of information" and its suitability for creating "rich, expressive multi-media documents" initially led me to overlook the fact that it is also claimed to be suitable for building graphical interfaces, and indeed includes an Application Development Workbench. CMU have mounted demonstrations of Andrew which can be run over the network, thus allowing anyone interested (and suitably equipped) to try the system very quickly: try "finger help@atk.itc.cmu.edu" for more information. Another system that seems to be other than an interface package is Rendezvous, a package from Bell Communications Research that has been designed with a focus on sharing information between a number of users, but which also includes graphics tools and constraint maintenance and process handling mechanisms. A number of people mentioned Neuron Data's "Open Interface" system, which includes an interface building tool, although I was warned that it was "very expensive". From a single interface specification, which can be build interactively, it is able to produce code with Motif, Open Look, Macintosh or Windows look and feel. "WNDX", from WNDX Inc. in Canada, is apparently capable of similar feats. So too is UCS (Universal Component System), which includes, or will include, libraries and an interface builder for Mac, X and Windows. Software Transformation emphasise the ability of the system to use the native widgets on each platform, which means that the system will automatically adjust to changes in the native look-and-feel. MASAI and AIDA, from ILOG, also received enthusiastic mentions: AIDA is a Graphic widget library and language that allows "high level" widgets to be constructed, and allows them to be presented on X, Windows and OS/2 (The only mention---whatever happened to IBM, anyway:-). Call backes can be in Fortran, C, C++ or Le-Lisp. Masai is an interactive interface builder/animator which can use either pure Motif widgets, or widgets build in AIDA. ICS also provide a widget library/interface builder pair, in the form of Builder XCessory and ICS Widget Databook, and limited numbers of copies are available free to academics. [ Addresses for ILOG: USA : info@ilog.com FRANCE : info@ilog.fr ] Sun's "Developers Guide" (DevGuide) was mentioned by two or three satisfied users as a simple-to-use and reliable interactive interface builder for building C/C++ systems, although I believe that it can also generate interfaces for Common Lisp via the LispView system. It was criticised on the grounds that it "could have been more clever" about letting users make changes once they had started to flesh out the callback stubs, although it is not clear how DevGuide differs from any of the other interface builders in this respect. X-Designer, another interactive interface builder producing C, was also mentioned, but criticised for having an interface that was hard to get to grips with. Motifation is another interactive interface building tool that supports the Motif Widget Set, producing C code, and claiming in particular to support producing programmer-oriented documentation of the interface, and a make file. **** As a result of your design, you get the complete C-source-code including a Makefile and an Imakefile. If Motifation can't find Callback-functions in the specified file it generates dummy functions (containing a simple printf). Motifation supports the full OSF/Motif Widgets Set. Motifation has several additional features: o integrated hypertext help system (XpgHelp) also available as a separate program o dialog overview (not only 3 generations, but all in one window) o automatically documentation of the interface e.g.: all callbacks are generated to an ascii-file, etc o resolution independance - support (100TH_FONT_UNIT_TYPE, or PIXELS) o optimization to gadgets o shared-dialogbox o links and softlinks o a find-tool o regular expressions for Text-Widgets o a Ressource Selector (Which ressources should go to then AppDefaults-file?) Distributor: Motifation GbR Geroldstrasse 38 4790 Paderborn Tel: +49-5251-602076 Finally, the following were also mentioned or commended:- CLIM (Common Lisp Interface Manager), which is being developed by several Lisp vendors, including Symbolics, Franz, Harlequin and Lucid UIM/X, which is also marketed by IBM as AIXwindows Interface Composer. TCL and the TK toolkit were both mentioned a number of times, with the recommendation to read comp.lang.tcl. Finally finally, people suggested that Unix World, Unix Review and The X Journal would all be good places to look for announcements and reviews of the sorts of tools that I was interested in. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The rest of this message is a list of the systems I have unearthed for which I have either an email address or a ftp site. An email address in brackets indicates that I believe that the individual is associated with the tool, or the company producing it, but may not be the right person to handle queries. Please bear this in mind if you contact these people! For one or two systems, only the documentation is ftp-able: these are marked "-". For some commercial systems, "non-saving" or otherwise "damaged" versions are available free of charge. These are marked "!" AIDA/MASAI ILOG: no email or ftp found Allegro Common Windows info@franz.com Andrew emsworth.andrew.cmu.edu info-andrew-request@andrew.cmu.edu Builder Xcessory info@ics.com Carmen prolog@sunbim.be Dev Guide Sun: no email or ftp found - DIRT export.lcs.mit.edu:contrib in dirt.README and others ezd gatekeeper.dec.com in pub/DEC/ezd (Non-DEC kit also needs Scheme->C, in pub/DEC/Scheme-to-C) ezX info@sunrise.com Garnet: garnet@cs.cmu.edu Gina: ftp.gmd.de (129.26.8.90) in /gmd/gina export.lcs.mit.edu in /contrib (berlage@gmd.de) - CLIM ftp.uu.net in /vendor/franz/clim/clim.ps.Z clim-request@bbn.com CLUE (and CLIO) csc.ti.com in pub/clue.tar.Z CLX export.lcs.mit.edu:/contrib in CLX.... ! HyperLook hyperlook@turing.com in pub/HyperLook-runtime.tar.Z HyperNews ftp.umiacs.umd.edu in /pub/NeWS/HyperNeWS1.4.tar.Z - InterViews interviews.stanford.edu in /pub/papers/ibuild.ps iXBUILD karl@ixos.uucp LispView export.lcs.mit.edu in contrib/lispview1.1 xview.ucdavis.edu in pub/XView/LispView1.1 lispview@Eng.Sun.Com LispWorks works@harlqn.co.uk ! MetaCard ftp.metacard.com in MetaCard info@metacard.com Motifation (poepping@de.uni-paderborn) Open Interface Neuron Data: no email or ftp found. Picasso postgres.berkeley.edu in /pub/Picasso-2.0 ProXT, ProXL, ProWIndows sheywood@aiil.co.uk (for UK) sales@quintus.com (from memory: else post to comp.lang.prolog!) Rendezvous rdh@thumper.bellcore.com Serpent ftp.sei.cmu.edu in /pub/serpent export.lcs.mit.edu in /contrib/serpent TK barkeley.berkeley.edu in /tcl The official Tcl/Tk source site is ftp.cs.berkeley.edu:ucb/tcl The contributed archive is harbor.ecn.purdue.edu. UCS larryh@com.sti UIM/X ??? WCL devvax.jpl.nasa.gov in pub/ Winterp export.lcs.mit.edu in contrib/winterp-???.tar.Z where ??? is the version number winterp-source%hplnpm@hplabs.hp.com. WNDX WNDX, Inc: no email or ftp found. XBUILD xbuild@nixdorf.com X-Designer sales@ist.co.uk XFaceMaker2 requests@nsl.fr XIT ifi.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de in /pub/xit YYonX ftp.csrl.aoyama.ac.jp in YY/ =========================================================================== END 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