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Computer Graphics Resource Listing : BIWEEKLY POSTING [ PART 1/6 ]
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Last Change : 10 December 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]

+The best way to read this FAQ (and most other FAQs too) is to view the
+hypertext version using a Web browser such as Lynx, Mosaic, Netscape,
+WinWeb, or Cello.  This will allow you to easily jump:
+   * between subjects in this article
+   * to a Uniform Resource Locator (URL)
+   * to an Internet Request For Comments document (RFC)
+   * to some manual pages
+
+This and all FAQs that are crossposted to news.answers can be accessed through:
+http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/top.html
+
+This particular FAQ is at:
+http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/graphics/resources-list/
+ [ I think, I wasn't able to test it recently ]


There's a mail server on that machine. You send a e-mail message to
[e-mail]  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:
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EDITORIAL NOTES:
- I had too much work last month! Apologies for not updating the Listing more
    frequently
- Our Internet provider (FORTHnet) has cut the FTP connectivity to NTUA
    (due to financial controversies). So we may lose news and e-mail
    until this gets sorted out. Be patient!

3. Computer graphics FTP site list, by Eric Haines
5. Ray-tracing/graphics-related mailing lists.
8. Plotting packages
11. 3D scanners - Digitized 3D Data.
12. Background imagery/textures/datafiles
13. Introduction to rendering algorithms
   c. Radiosity
16. Scientific visualization stuff
18.  3D graphics editors
   a. Public domain, free and shareware systems

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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.

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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: [e-mail]

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 <[e-mail]> is the poster of the
 official comp.graphics FAQ

I have included my comments within braces '[' and ']'.

Nikolaos Fotis


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Subject: Contents of the Resource Listing
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PART 1:
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0. Places to find the Resource Listing
1. ARCHIE
2. Notes
3. Computer graphics FTP site list, by Eric Haines

PART 2:
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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:
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9. Image analysis software - Image processing and display

PART 4:
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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. Radiosity
   d. Others
14. Where can I find the geometric data for the:
   a. Teapot ?
   b. Space Shuttle ?
15. Image annotation software - Paint Programs

PART 5:
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16. Scientific visualization stuff
17. Molecular visualization stuff

PART 6:
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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!]


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Subject: 0. Places to find the Resource Listing
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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 6 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 <[e-mail]>

--

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:
   [e-mail]
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.

The people at Ohio State University have built an automatic Text-to-HTML
facility, which archives many FAQs (and the Resource Listing). The main
URL is:

http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu:80/hypertext/faq/usenet/


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Subject: 1. ARCHIE
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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.)


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Subject: 2. Notes
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(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.


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Subject: 3. Computer graphics FTP site list
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Computer graphics related FTP sites (and maintainers), 17 Oct. 1994
    compiled by Eric Haines, [e-mail]
    and Nick Fotis, [e-mail]

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 ([e-mail]). 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.
BMRT - Blue Moon Rendering Tools. This shareware toolkit consists of a full
    implementation of the RenderMan standard which supports ray tracing,
    radiosity, area light sources, texture and environment mapping,
    programmable shading in the RenderMan Shading Language, motion blur,
    automatic ray cast shadows, and other advanced features.
     The toolkit also contains quick RIB previewers (using GL or X11).
    The toolkit is distributed as binaries for the following platforms:
    SGI running IRIX 4.05 or later, HP 9000 8xx/7xx running HP-UX, Sun
    SPARC, NeXTSTEP (HP, Motorola, and Intel)
    Larry Gritz <[e-mail]>
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 ([e-mail])
RRLib - Another distributed version of Rayshade.
    Contact: Wilfried Koch <[e-mail]>
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 (commercial).


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: [e-mail] (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 <[e-mail]>
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 <[e-mail]>
+Sced - Constraint Based Scene Editing for UNIX/X. It exports scene files for
+    both POV and Rayshade. It is being distributed as source code


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 <[e-mail]>
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 <[e-mail]>
NeXTrad - yet another (minimal) radiosity package, for the NeXT computers
    (requires NeXTSTEP 3.0+)
BMRT - See in the raytracers list above.


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
VolPack - fast, high-quality volume rendering library from Lacroute/Levoy
SDSC_NetV - San Diego's networked volume rendering client program (free for
    SDSC-affiliated sites. SDSC_NetV distributes CPU-intensive rendering
    jobs to high-end rendering engines at SDSC.
    Anyone with access to a Sun SPARCstation, a Silicon Graphics
    workstation, or a DEC workstation, is encouraged to try it out
    with the SDSC_NetV sample data sets.


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)
+AlphaShape - A package for working with Alpha shapes. Alpha shapes
+    can be viewed as generalizations of the convex hull of a point set.
+    The software currently consists of four programs:
+    detri --- 3D Delaunay triangulation (randomized incremental flip)
+    mkalf --- 3D Alpha shape file and data structure
+    alvis --- 3D Alpha shape visualizer (requires SGI)
+    volbl --- Measuring space filling diagrams and voids
+
+    There's also source code available in the same site


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 <[e-mail]>
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: [e-mail]
    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.
RadBib94 - 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 <[e-mail]>
Online Bibliography Project :
    The ACM SIGGRAPH Online Bibliography Project is a database of
#    over 15,000 unique computer graphics
    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

        [e-mail]

    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,
        "[e-mail]".

    You can now use the WWW to access the bibliography:

    http://siggraph.org/library/bibliography/bibliography.hmtl



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: [e-mail]
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 ([e-mail])
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: [e-mail]
    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.
LEDA - A *big* C++ library, that includes (between many other things)
    matrix/vector classes, etc.etc.
ProcText - Code from the book
    "Texturing and Modeling, A Procedural Approach", David S. Ebert,
    F. Kenton Musgrave, Darwyn Peachey, Ken Perlin, and Steven Worley,
    Academic Press, 1994, ISBN 0-12-228760-6
Zipper -  a program for combining multiple range images into a single
    polygonal mesh.  It was specifically created to more fully use
    range images acquired from a Cyberware range scanner.
    With appropriate file conversion, however, there is nothing preventing
    the use of zipper with range images taken with other scanners.
    The source code for zipper and two sample data sets are available both
    from web and anonymous ftp
    Contact: [e-mail]


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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>
    [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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

harbor.ecn.purdue.edu [128.46.154.76] : pub/tcl/extensions/tsipp-?.??.tar.Z -
    *Tcl-SIPP*
    Mark Diekhans <[e-mail]>
 [ 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 <[e-mail]>

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 - *RadBib94*, /www/mgf - *MGF*
    Greg Ward <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

geom.umn.edu [128.101.25.31] : pub/software/geomview - *GEOMVIEW* and other
    Geometry Center visualization packages.
    Contact: [e-mail]
    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 <[e-mail]>

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 ([e-mail])

cs.usask.ca [128.233.130.10] :  pub/geometry/geombib.tar.Z - Computational
    Geometry bibliography (very extensive, 5539 entries to date).
    Bill Jones <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>
    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.
+    Visualization/Alpha-shape/alpha-2.2/ - *AlphaShape*,
    Visualization/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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

ftp.psc.edu [128.182.66.148]:  pub/p3d - p3d_2_0.tar P3D lispy scene
    language & renderers.  Joel Welling <[e-mail]>

ftp.ee.lbl.gov [128.3.254.68]: *pbmplus.tar.Z*, pub/ray - RayShade data files.
    Jef Poskanzer <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>
    Mark Spychalla <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>
    [supercedes okeeffe.berkeley.edu for the LIBTIFF stuff]

ftp.sdsc.edu [132.249.20.22]: pub/sdsc/graphics directory. It contains:
        ./imtools - *SDSC*
        ./netv - *SDSC_NetV*
        ./interactive_color - "Interactive Color" tutorial.
    Much other SciVi stuff
    Contact: [e-mail] if you have any problems

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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>.

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 <[e-mail]>

ftp.pitt.edu [130.49.253.1]:  /users/q/r/qralston/images - 24 bit image archive
    (small).  James Ralston Crawford <[e-mail]>

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:
    [e-mail].  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 [e-mail]
    ("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 <[e-mail]>

uvacs.cs.virginia.edu [128.143.8.100]:  pub/suit/demo/{sparc,dec,etc} - SUIT
    (Simple User Interface Toolkit).  "finger [e-mail]"
    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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>.

cs.brown.edu [128.148.33.66] : *SRGP/SPHIGS* . For more info on SRGP/SPHIGS:
    mail -s 'software-distribution' [e-mail]

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 [e-mail]

acs.cps.msu.edu [35.9.24.92]:  pub/sass - Rayshade tools: X windows font
    converter and animation tool.  Ron Sass <[e-mail]>

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 ([e-mail])
    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 <[e-mail]>

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 [e-mail]
    (or ames!archive-server) with subject:"help"
    or "send SPACE Index" (without the quotes!)
    Peter Yee <[e-mail]>

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).
    [e-mail] or phone [phone]

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).

+seds.lpl.arizona.edu [128.196.64.66]: /pub/spacecraft/clementine -
+    Images from the Clementine satellite.
+    Also try clementine.s1.gov[128.15.32.9]:/pub/clementine/images

stsci.edu [130.167.1.2] : Hubble Space Telescope stuff (images and other
    data). Read the README first!
    Pete Reppert <[e-mail]> or Chris O'Dea <[e-mail]>

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 : [e-mail]
    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 <[e-mail]>

ftp.apple.com [130.43.2.3] :  pub/VR/graphics.systems - Gossamer 2.0, real
    time rendering for the Mac.
    Jon Blossom <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

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.
    Many other goodies in that directory (unfortunately, not README file
    for the publicly available ones)
    Kenneth Sloan <[e-mail]>

merlin.etsu.edu [192.43.199.20]: - VistaPro version of many USGS DEM files
    Brian Wright <[e-mail]>

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/pub/dj/djmccoy - directories for the Lightwave and Toaster
+    mailing lists.

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 <[e-mail]>

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.

ftp.gwu.edu [128.164.9.5] : /pvt/gritz804/BMRT - *BMRT*

ftp.povray.org [192.216.222.14] : /pub/povray - U.S.-based home of the
    PoV-Ray    uniwa (ftp.uwa.edu.au) archives (and then more)
    Chris Cason <[e-mail]>

eustis.cs.ucf.edu [132.170.108.42] : pub/ - software, papers, and
    docs for doing motion prediction and building surfaces from
    shading in images.

graphics.stanford.edu [36.22.0.39]: pub/volpack/volpack.1.0b2.tar.Z -
    current version of the *VolPack* volume rendering library.
    Includes source, example programs, user's manual and man pages.
    Data sets and a Tcl-based application are also available.
    pub/zippack - *Zipper*
    Phil Lacroute <[e-mail]>

archive.cs.umbc.edu [130.85.100.53] : pub/texture - *ProcText*

+gauss.eedsp.gatech.edu [130.207.224.26] : /database -  various Brodatz
+    textures.

+ftp.cps.msu.edu [35.9.26.72] : /pub/prip/Brodatz - various Brodatz textures.

+ftp.autodesk.com[198.93.152.11] : /pub/listserv/3ds - Archive of the 3D Studio
+    mailing list.

+magoo.uwsuper.edu [137.81.1.20] : /pub/wt - a portable Doom like polygon
+    engine.

+uunorth.north.net [198.52.32.1] : pub/realsoft - Real 3D 2 demo for
+    MS Windows, etc.

+ftp.csn.net [199.117.27.23] : /Schreiber - FTP place for the Schreiber
+    Instruments (creators of many 3D Studio IPAS routines)

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 [e-mail] 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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

irisa.irisa.fr [131.254.2.3]:  */iPSC2/VM_pRAY ray tracer*, SPD,
    /NFF - many non-SPD NFF format scenes, RayShade data files.
    Didier Badouel <[e-mail]> [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
    <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

(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 <[e-mail]>

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 ([e-mail])

ftp.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de [129.69.211.2]:  AERO, a virtual mechanics
    system, ties in with POVray and MPEG.
    Hartmut Keller <[e-mail]>

(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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

maggia.ethz.ch [129.132.17.1]: pub/inetray - *Inetray* and Sun RPC 4.0 code
    Andreas Thurnherr <[e-mail]>

osgiliath.id.dth.dk [129.142.65.24]:  /pub/amiga/graphics/Radiance - *Amiga
    port of Radiance 2.0*.  Per Bojsen <[e-mail]>

iamsun.unibe.ch [130.92.64.10]:  Graphtal L-system interpreter (includes
    animation support, X11 and x-buffer previewer, output for Rayshade).
    Christoph Streit <[e-mail]>

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 [e-mail]
    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 <[e-mail]>, phone [phone]

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 ([e-mail])

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/GOOD?.?? -
#    *GOOD graphics OO project, including YART 3D graphics kernel*
+    *YART/VR - A YART/Tcl/Tk-based system for network VR*
    Ekkehard 'Ekki' Beier <[e-mail]>

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: [e-mail]

neptune.inf.ethz.ch [129.132.101.33]: XYZ - *XYZ GeoBench*
    Peter Schorn <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

cast0.ast.cam.ac.uk [131.111.68.35]:  pub/gfl/temp.tar.gz - SunOs 4.1.3 POVRay
    executables.
    Geraint Lewis <[e-mail]>

ftp.technion.ac.il [132.68.1.10]:  /pub/supported/cs/graphics - *IRIT*.
    Gershon Elber <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

ftp.fht-mannheim.de [141.19.1.71] : pub/linux/X11/xvirtual.tar.gz - *Xvirtual*

ftp.mpi-sb.mpg.de [139.19.1.1] : pub/LEDA - *LEDA*

+ftp.hsr.no [152.94.1.41] : /tele-signal-group/textures/brodatz/ -
+    Various composite texture images based on Brodatz textures.

+ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de [130.149.17.7]: pub/sci/virtual-reality
+    ./software - avril, rend386, vr386, multiverse, renderware, wt
+    ./graphics - graphics gems, bmrt, rad, india, zrend,
+        29 MB of textures
+    Karsten Isakovic <[e-mail]>


AUSTRALIA:
----------

uniwa.uwa.edu.au [130.95.128.1] : /pub/povray - *POVray*, plus many
    "unofficial" POV files.  Currently very active.
    POVRAY account <[e-mail]>
    [ New name: ftp.uwa.edu.au ]
    Chris Cason <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

katz.anu.edu.au [150.203.7.91] :  /pub/stereograms - Single image random dot
    (SIRDS) stereogram site.
    <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

+raru.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.56.135] : pub/rotater - A Mac utility that
+    reads a set of 3-dimensional points and lines and plots them in a
+    window. The image can then be rotated with the mouse in real time.

+ftp.cs.su.oz.au [129.78.8.1] : pub/stephen/sced - *Sced*

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 <[e-mail]>

scslwide.sony.co.jp [133.138.199.1]:  ftp2/SGI/Facial-Animation - Steve Franks
    site for facial animation.
     Steve Franks <[e-mail] OR [e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

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.

http://www.tnt.uni-hannover.de/data/info/www/tnt/soft/sci/vis/compgraph/
    (read the overview.html for a start) - A German WWW Comp. Graphics
    site (many interesting things there)
    Oliver Grau <[e-mail]>

http://www-graphics.stanford.edu/ - WWW server for the Stanford
    Computer Graphics Laboratory.
    software/volpack - *VolPack*
    software/zippack - *Zipper*
+    ~tolis/shuttle.html - Space Shuttle geometric models

http://www.cs.ubc.ca/nest/imager/imager.html - Work on splines and
    facial animation.
    David Forsey <[e-mail]>

http://www.lightside.com:80/~dani/ - 3D Web: resumes, Job offers,
    CGI houses, Hardware/Software firms, Books, Labs, etc.etc.)
    Daniele Colajacomo ([e-mail])

http://www.sgi.com/tech/openGL/opengl.html - SGI's OpenGL Web page
    Mason Woo <[e-mail]>

http://www.canon.co.uk/csl - Canon's CRITERION Web page (see FTP list
    for details about CRITERION)

http://www.uio.no/~mwatz/art/gallery/anim/ - POVRAY animations

http://www.cs.tu-berlin.de/~lulli/xray/xray.html - X Ray

http://www.gig.nl/ - ElectroGIG Europe's Web server

+http://metallica.prakinf.tu-ilmenau.de/YARTVR.html - *YART/VR* Home Page

+http://biocomp.arc.nasa.gov/3dreconstruction/.index.html -
+    The 3D Reconstruction Web site. It has a large amount of information
+    on software packages, datasets, images/movies, and pointers to other
+    Internet-related topics.

+http://tomahawk.welch.jhu.edu/ - The NewTek Lightwave Internet repository
+    (a Net effort - not official)

+http://www.cinenet.net/GWEB - GWEB, an informal trade journal focusing on the
+    computer animation industry (job listing section, interviews, etc.)

+http://www.oki.com/products/TrianGL.html - Okidata's OpenGL accelerator chip

+http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/nasa_online_education.html  and
+http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/photo_gallery/Photo_Gallery.html - planetary images

+http://delcano.mit.edu/http/amesinfo.html - Catalog of Planetary GIF Images

+ http://www.ping.at/users/dc.co.at - Some architectural renderings, mixed
+    with photo-cd photos (from the doegl-cherkoori company)

+http://katto.kaapeli.fi/~hybrid - dIGiT -show Graphics Competition Online
+    Images from an online graphics competition being run at the end of
+    Oct. '94

http://siggraph.org/ - The ACM SIGGRAPH WWW server
http://siggraph.org/library/bibliography/bibliography.hmtl - Online
    Bibliography Project.

=========================================================================

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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 [e-mail] 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 [e-mail]
  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       [e-mail]
  In Denmark:     TRICKLE@DKTC11
  In Italy:       TRICKLE@IMIPOLI
  In Belgium:     TRICKLE@BANUFS11     [e-mail]
  In Austria:     TRICKLE@AWIWUW11
  In Germany:     TRICKLE@DS0RUS1I     [e-mail]
  In Israel:      TRICKLE@TAUNIVM      [e-mail]
  In Netherlands: TRICKLE@HEARN        [e-mail]
  In France:      TRICKLE@FRMOP11      [e-mail]
  In Colombia:    TRICKLE@UNALCOL      [e-mail]
  In Taiwan:      TRICKLE@TWNMOE10     [e-mail]

  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 [e-mail]

  will give you a quick summary of what inria-graphlib contains and
  how to browse among its files.

    echo send contents | mail [e-mail]

  will return the extended summary.

  As another example :

    echo send cgrl from Misc | mail [e-mail]

  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, [phone].
  24 hours, 105 Meg online.
--

From Jeff Walkup <[e-mail]>:
  "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 <[e-mail]>)

  Phone : [phone]
  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 <[e-mail]>

  Amiga Graphics BBS [phone] 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: [e-mail] (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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>:

 Pi Square BBS [phone] 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 <[e-mail]>:

  Vertech Design's GRAPHIC CONNECTION. [phone] 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: [e-mail] (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: [e-mail] <Jeff Zemke>

#  The Graphics Emporium BBS (moved to Phoenix!)

+  [phone]
+  Now with (13) CD's online (all at one time)
  14.4 baud /  24hrs / 7days
  'The 2D/3D graphics hub for the West'

  #A FirstClass(tm) BBS dedicated to computer 2D/3D Art and Video.
  On-line objects, textures, applications and other graphics related
#  media. It is not dedicated to any single platform, but most
+  resources are for Macintosh and Windows.  Other platforms such
+  as Amiga and Silicon Graphics are supported as well.

+  The Graphics Emporium is supported by the FirstClass* GUI from
+  SoftArc, and the FirstClass* Client (Mac or Windows) is
+  required to connect and use the Graphical User Interface.
  Command line users can download the client (Mac/Windows) during first
  login.

--
From: [e-mail] (Neil Clark) [SYSOP]

  The Tackle Box BBS [phone]
  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
=======================================================

+GENERAL NOTICE: You *must* send subscribe/unsubscribe/help requests
+        *only* to the related addresses - PLEASE don't clutter the
+        entire lists!

Imagine
-------
  Modeling and animation system for the Amiga:
  send subscription requests to [e-mail]
  send material to [e-mail]
  (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  <Your_full_name>

  to [e-mail]

  Send material to [e-mail]


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  <Your_full_name>

    to    [e-mail]

  Send material to [e-mail]

  If you encounter any problems, by all means send e-mail to
  [e-mail] or [e-mail].

Video Toaster
-------------
  NewTek's Video Toaster for the Amiga.

  To subscribe, send a mail containing the body

        subscribe toaster-l  <Your_full_name>

    to    [e-mail]

  If you encounter any problems, by all means send e-mail to
  [e-mail] or [e-mail].

3D Studio
---------
  Autodesk's well known PC-based modelling/rendering/animation package.

  To subscribe, send a mail containing the body

        subscribe 3dstudio

    to    [e-mail]

  Send material to [e-mail]

  If you encounter any problems or want to ask questions about the mailing
  list itself, send e-mail to [e-mail].

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   <Your_full_name>

  to [e-mail]

  Send material to [e-mail]

  In case of problems, e-mail the Real 3D Mailing List administrator:
  [e-mail]


Rayshade
--------
  send subscription requests to [e-mail]
  send material to [e-mail]
  (Craig Kolb)


Alladin 4D for the Amiga
----------
  send subscription requests to [e-mail]

  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: [e-mail]


REND386
-------
  send subscription requests to [e-mail]
  send material to [e-mail]


PoV ray / DKB raytracers
------------------------
  To subscribe, send a mail containing the body

  subscribe dkb-l  <Your_full_name>

  to [e-mail]

  send material to [e-mail]


Mailing List for Massively Parallel Rendering
---------------------------------------------
  send subscription requests to [e-mail]
  send material to [e-mail]


IBM Data Explorer SciVi package
-------------------------------
  send material to [e-mail] (??)


Wavefront
---------
  High end 3D modelling/animation/rendering for Unix machines.
  send subscription requests to [e-mail]  with
  a *body* of:

  // JOB
  subscribe wavefr-l <yournamehere>
  // 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:

#    [e-mail].


VOGLE / VOGL
------------
  send subscription requests to [e-mail]
  send material to [e-mail]


POVGUI
------
  There is a new mailing list for the development of a GUI for POV.

  [e-mail] (aka [e-mail])

  to subscribe, send mail to [e-mail] 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  <Your_full_name>

  to [e-mail]

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 [e-mail]

  send material to [e-mail]

  If you encounter any problems or want to ask questions about the mailing
  list itself, send e-mail to [e-mail] (Vance Gloster)

Softimage
---------
  There are various mailing lists for Softimage products. Here are the
  subscription addresses:

  [e-mail]          - Creative Environment discussions
  [e-mail]  - General discussion
  [e-mail]             - bug fixes and software defects
  [e-mail]       - Eddie discussions
  [e-mail]          - 2D product discussions(TOONZ,Liberty,etc)
  [e-mail]         - Painterly Effects discussions
  [e-mail]      - Mental Ray discussions
  [e-mail]   - Particles discussion
  [e-mail]     - Minerva discussions

Kodak PhotoCD
-------------

  To subscribe, send a mail containing the body

  SUBSCRIBE PHOTO-CD Your_Full_Name

  to [e-mail]


+YART
+----
+  To subscribe, send a mail with subject "subscribe YART mailing list"
+  to [e-mail].

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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 ([e-mail]).
[ 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: [e-mail].
  [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.
Also includes a nice postscript object displayer.  Some GREAT models.
Edited copy of the announcement follows (from Raytracing News, V4,#3):

  New Library of 3D Objects Available via FTP, by Steve Worley
  ([e-mail])

  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.

 [ NOTE: Look at the FTP List (Subject 1) - there are also many other
  data formats inside it! I have to decide if I should move this subject
  into the FTP list, or take the respective part of the FTP list here ]

[ Here's the relevant part from the FTP list (actual FTP places are in the
  FTP list):

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 <[e-mail]>
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: [e-mail]
        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
]


---------------------------------------------------------------------------

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 [e-mail]
  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: [phone] (FAX: x 5893),
  e-mail: [e-mail] or {...!}mcsun!uknet!rlinf!mm or
          [e-mail]


-------------------------------------------------------------------------

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
  <[e-mail]>


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 (128.118.147.70),  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 [e-mail] 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 [e-mail]


GGRAPH
------
  Host shorty.cs.wisc.edu [128.105.2.8] : /pub/ggraph.tar.Z
  Unknown more details.


epiGRAPH
--------
  For PCs. Call [e-mail] (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 [phone]  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 <[e-mail]>,
  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
  [e-mail]


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 <[e-mail]>: PLPLOT kernel and the metafile,
     xterm, xwindow, tektronix, and Amiga drivers.
  Geoff Furnish <[e-mail]>: MS-DOS and OS/2 drivers
  Tony Richardson <[e-mail]>: 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 <[e-mail]>

  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

  [e-mail], with a message boyd containing

  sub glelist "Your Name"

  Mailing list maintainer: Dean Pentcheff <[e-mail]>


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
  [e-mail]


PlotMTV
-------
+  You can find it with Archie - a good place is a SunSITE like
+  src.doc.ic.ac.uk [155.198.1.40] :
+  /computing/graphics/systems/X11/contrib/applications/Plotmtv1.4.0.tar.Z
+  (~ 2 MB)

  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 <[e-mail]>


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: [e-mail]


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.



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Subject: 9. Image analysis software - Image processing and display
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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, [phone]
  e-mail: [e-mail] (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 [phone]
  fax: [phone]

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
  [phone]

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 [phone]  Fax [phone].

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 [phone]

  "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   [phone]

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

    [e-mail]
    [e-mail]
[ Latest address: [e-mail] ]

  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, [phone],
  [phone].

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  [phone])

  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  [e-mail] (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 <[e-mail]>


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 [e-mail] 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
  [e-mail].

AIPS
----
  Astronomical Image Processing System.  Contact: [e-mail]
  (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 : [phone]; fax: [phone]
  E-mail: [e-mail]  or [e-mail]


Figaro
------
  It was originally made for VMS, and can be obtained from
  Keith Shortridge in Australia ([e-mail])
  and for Unix from Sam Southard at Caltech ([e-mail]).
  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
  [e-mail] 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:  [phone]
  Fax:  [phone]

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:  [phone] Fax: [phone]
  [e-mail]


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
  [phone]  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:
[e-mail]

ITEX
----
  Please see the entry in the DOS-based systems. Their VME hardware also
  works in Unix environments.

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Last Change : 10 December 1994


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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: [phone]
  Arpa, Internet:  [e-mail]

[ 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 digital 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.

  If you want to weed through the respective FTP site, here it is:

  ftp://edcftp.cr.usgs.gov/pub/data/

+  If you want to ask a geology question, USGS has the new Ask-A-Geologist
+  Internet service:
+
+  send your geology question to [e-mail]
+  administrative questions should go to Rex Sanders at [e-mail]

---

  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 [phone] for more info or they have
  a BBS at [phone].

---

[ 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

  Look also at the directory msdos/mapping



Fractal Landscape Generators
============================

Public Domain or Shareware:
===========================

  Many people have written fractal landscape generators. For example
  for the Mac some of these generators were written by
  [e-mail] (Paul D. Bourke).
  Many of the programs are available from the FTP sites and mail
#  archive servers. Check with Archie!

+Fractint
+--------
+  This well known program, besides fractal images, it generates height fields
+  for various renderers.
+
+Terrain Maker
+-------------
+  Landscape generator/editor for gif heightfields used by POV.
+  It can be found at mack.rt66.com:/users/smeagol/tmkr11.zip
+
+[ Sure there are better programs, but I cannot find these alone - send me
+  stuff if you want to see included! ]


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 [phone]

  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 [phone]

  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 <[e-mail]>.
  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 [e-mail].

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.
  ([e-mail])

  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: [phone]
     Email address:  [e-mail]

  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: [e-mail] (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 [e-mail] (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.
  [phone].

  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.  [phone].

  EOSAT (at least in the US) now sells Landsat MSS data older than two years
  old for $200 per scene, and they have been talking about a similar deal
  for Landsat TM data. The MSS data are 4 bands, 80 meter resolution.

  Check out anonymous FTP to ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu in
  UNIX/PolyView/alpha-shape for a tool that creates convex hulls
  alpha-shapes (a generalization of the convex hull) from 3D point sets.

  The GRIPS II (Gov. Raster Image Processing Software) CD-ROM
  is available from CD-ROM Inc. at 1-800-821-5245 for $49.
  Code for viewing ADRG (Arc Digitised Raster Graphics) files is
  available on the GRIPS II CD-ROM. The U.S. Army Engineer
  Topographic Labs (Juan Perez) code is also available via FTP
  ( adrg.zip archive in  spectrum.xerox.com )

NRCC range data
---------------
  Rioux M., Cournoyer L. "The NRCC Three-Dimensional Image Data Files",
  Tech. Report, CNRC 29077, National Research Council Canada,
  Ottawa, Canada, 1988
  [ From what I understand, these data are from a laser range finder,
   and you can a copy for research purposes ]


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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:   [phone]
  Fax:     [phone]
  E-Mail:  [e-mail]

  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# [phone] (or 801 229 3300 ??)
  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: [phone]
  FAX:   [phone]


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.
  [e-mail]              P.O. Box 8669
  [phone]                      Palo Alto, CA  94309-8669
  [phone] (FAX)


+Hymarc
+------
+From: William Cheung <[e-mail]>
+
+  Hymarc s primary product, Hyscan, is a state-of-the-art 3D scanning
+  laser digitizing system which rapidly acquires XYZ data points from
+  any complex free-form surface.  Hyscan is based on unique and patented
+  "synchronized scanning" technology originally developed by the
+  National Research Council of Canada.  Nicknamed the "Flying Spot" by
+  it's users and operating at 10,000 points per second, Hyscan is the
+  fastest way to digitize objects of any size in 3D.  Hyscan combines
+  this continuous high speed non-contact surface mapping capability with
+  +/- 0.001" (25 micron) precision accuracy and unmatched flexibility
+  for demanding reverse engineering, design, rapid prototyping, and
+  inspection applications in the automotive, aerospace, tool & die, and
+  medical industries.  The scanning "camera" is a turnkey retrofit to
+  virtually any CMM or other translation device.  Hymarc also offers a
+  variety of surfacing, profiling, direct-to-machining, and inspection
+  software tools to provide the link to CAD packages, machining centers,
+  and other applications specific requirements.
+
+  Several scanning bureaus offer scanning and processing services,
+  including Hymarc in Ottawa.  Systems are distributed and supported
+  worldwide.  Hymarc has also developed vision technologies for color
+  scanning, PCB inspection, body scanning, and robotic vision.
+
+  Contact:
+
+  Hymarc Ltd.
+  5-38 Auriga Drive
+  Ottawa, Canada
+  K2E 8A5
+
+  Phone: [phone]
+  Fax: [phone]
+  E-mail: [e-mail]


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: [phone]
  Fax: [phone]
  Internet: [e-mail]

3D Express
----------
From: [e-mail] (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
  [phone] (voice)
  [phone] (fax)
  [phone] (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: [phone], Fax: [phone]

  Polhemus Incorporated
  Digitizer: 6d trackers
  P.O. Box 560, Hercules Dr.
  Colchester, Vt. 05446
  Tel: [phone]

  Logitech Inc.
  Red Baron, ultrasonic 6D mouse
  6506 Kaiser Dr.
  Freemont, CA 94555
  Tel: [phone]w

  Shooting Star Technology
  Mechanical Headtracker
  1921 Holdom Ave.
  Burnaby, B.C. Canada V5B 3W4
  Tel: [phone]
  Fax: [phone]

  Spacetec IMC (Interactive Motion Control) Corp.
  [ New name for Spaceball Technologies, Inc. ]
  Spaceball: 6d stationary input device
  600 Suffolk Street
  Lowell, MA, 01854
  Tel: [phone]
  Fax: [phone]
  Tel in Mountain View: [phone]

  Transfinite Systems
  Gold Brick: PowerGlove for Macintosh
  P.O. Box N
  MIT Branch Post Office
  Cambridge, MA 02139-0903
  Tel: [phone]
  email: [e-mail]

  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: [phone]
  Fax: [phone]

  SimGraphics Engineering
  Flying Mouse: 6d input device
  1137 Huntington Rd. Suite A-1
  South Pasadena, CA 91030-4563
  [phone]


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Subject: 12. Background imagery/textures/datafiles
==================================================

 First, check in the FTP places that are mentioned in the FAQ or in the FTP
list above.
+ Second, there are magazines like "Computer Graphics World" or
+"Digital Video Review" that have many ads for texture/imagery sellers.

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. [phone], 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: [phone]
   FAX: [phone]

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
      [phone]


+Form and Function
+-----------------
+
+  They make 3 CD-ROMs of textures and quicktime movie clips, called
+  Wraptures One, Two and Reel.
+
+    1595 17th Avenue
+    San Francisco, CA 94122
+    415-664-4010
+    415-664-4030 fax
+
+
+Pixar 128
+---------
+ [ Anyone that can send me more info? - nfotis ]


----------------------------------------------------------------------------

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
  ([e-mail])

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. Radiosity
------------
+There are at present only three books devoted to radiosity. Unlike the
+*many* texts available on ray tracing techniques, these books are
+surprisingly complementary in their coverage of radiosity and related
+global illumination techniques.

    Cohen, M. F. and J. R. Wallace 1993. Radiosity and Realistic Image
    Synthesis, Cambridge, MA: Academic Press Professional,
    ISBN 0-12-178270-0
+    Hardcover, 382 pages, 54 color plates

and:

    Sillion, F. and C. Puech 1994. Radiosity and Global Illumination,
    San Francisco, CA: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers,
#    ISBN 1-55860-277-1
+    Hardcover, 252 pages, 45 color plates

Neither of these texts include source code, and the reading can be
pretty tough going at times. Another book (that includes C++ source code)
is the:

    Ashdown, I. 1994. Radiosity: A Programmer's Perspective, New York, NY:
    John Wiley & Sons,
+    ISBN 0-471-30444-1 (without diskette)
+    ISBN 0-471-30488-3 (with diskette)
+    Softcover, 498 pages, 12 color plates


d. Others:
----------
???
[ More info is needed -- nfotis ]


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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 <[e-mail]> has built a list of Space Shuttle
datafiles.
+He just built a WWW page, with URL:
+http://www-graphics.stanford.edu/~tolis/shuttle.html
+
+which contains detailed info on all the shuttle models I have.
+Moreover, all the models except the NASA one are available from that
+page by FTP.

#Here's a summary (From his *OLD* 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 ([e-mail]) 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 ([e-mail]) has a copy.  He did
not mention any restriction on the model's distribution.

model4:
The NASA model.

The file starts off with a header line containing three real numbers,
defining the offsets used by Lockheed in their simulations:

<x offset> <y offset> <z offset>

From then on, the file consists of a sequence of polygon descriptions

3473 vertices.
2748 polygons (407 3-vertex, 2268 4-vertex, 33 5-vertex, 14 6-vertex,
 10 7-vertex, 8 8-vertex, 8 12-vertex, 2 13-vertex, 2 15-vertex,
 17 16-vertex, 2 17-vertex, 2 18-vertex, 3 19-vertex, 8 24-vertex).
Payload doors closed.
Units: inches.

Jon Berndt ([e-mail]) 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 ([e-mail]) or my supervisor
Scott Williams ([e-mail]) if you want a copy.


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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: [e-mail] (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


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Subject: 16. Scientific visualization stuff
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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
  [phone]

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: [e-mail]


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 <[e-mail]>

  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    : [phone]
        Fax    : [phone]
        e-mail : [e-mail]

        IRIS Explorer Center (North America)
        1400 Opus Place, Suite 200
        Downers Grove, IL 60515-5702
        USA
        Tel    : [phone]
        Fax    : [phone]
        e-mail : [e-mail]

  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: [phone] and [phone]
  Fax: [phone]

        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
  [e-mail]      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 ([e-mail])
  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: [phone]
  Fax: [phone]
  e-mail: Terry Arden <[e-mail]>



+[ New entries for VIS-AD / VIS-5D! ]
+VIS-AD
+------
+
+  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.
+
+  The current version of VIS-AD runs on Silicon Graphics workstations.
+  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> bye
+
+  See Section 2 of the README file for further instructions.
+
+
+VIS-5D
+------
+
+  VIS-5D is a system for interactive visualization of 5-D gridded data sets
+  such as those made by numeric weather and ocean models.  One can make
+  isosurfaces, contour line slices, colored slices, wind vector slices, wind
+  trajectories, volume renderings etc. of data in a 3-D grid and then rotate
+  and animate the image in realtime.  There are also features for text
+  annotation and video production.
+
+  VIS-5D runs on Silicon Graphics, IBM, HP, DEC and SUN workstations.
+
+  You can get it with:
+  ftp iris.ssec.wisc.edu  (or ftp 144.92.108.63), then
+
+  ftp> cd pub/vis5d
+  ftp> ascii
+  ftp> get README
+  ftp> bye
+
+  See Section 2 of the README file for further instructions.
+
+
+For both VIS-AD and VIS-5D you can contact:
+
+  Bill Hibbard ([e-mail])
+  Brian Paul ([e-mail])
+  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: [e-mail] 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 [e-mail]

    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 ([e-mail])

    Wavefront Technologies, Inc.
    530 East Montecito Street
    Santa Barbara, CA 93103
    805-962-8117
    FAX: [phone]

    Wavefront Europe
    Guldenspoorstraat 21-23
    B-9000 Gent, Belgium
    32-91-25-45-55
    FAX: [phone]

    Wavefront Technologies Japan
    17F Shinjuku-sumitomo Bldg
    2-6-1  Nishi-shinjuku, Shunjuku-Ku
    Tokyo 168 Japan
    81-3-3342-7330
    FAX [phone]


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   [phone]
    fax     [phone]
    email   [e-mail]

    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 [e-mail]

FAST USER GROUP

    To join the FAST user group and receive tips and important
    announcements about FAST, send your email address to:
    [e-mail]

SUPPORT

    Email questions, comments and suggestions to: [e-mail]
______________________________________________________________________________
*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
    [e-mail]

  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:  [phone]
              FAX:    [phone]
              E-mail: [e-mail]

  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
        [phone] (phone)
        [phone] (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
        [phone]
        [phone] (fax)
        [e-mail] -or- [e-mail]

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:  [e-mail]
          MIT 37-467              FAX:    [phone]
          77 Mass Ave             Tel:    [phone]
          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
 [phone]

 Steve Kramer ([e-mail])


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, ([e-mail], ...ucbvax!csam.lbl.gov!johnston)

       or

 David Robertson ([e-mail], ...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 : [phone]
  Fax : [phone]
  Email : [e-mail]


---------------------------------------------------------
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
        [e-mail]

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

  [phone]
  e-mail: Rod Gilchrist <[e-mail]>



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 [e-mail].

  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



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Subject: 17. Molecular visualization stuff
==========================================

IMPORTANT NOTE: I'M EXPECTING TO REMOVE THIS PART AND LET ANOTHER ONE
TAKE IT OVER!!!!

From: Didier Vandervecken <[e-mail]>

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  [e-mail]
        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).


17. Molecular visualization stuff [ old version ]
=================================


[ Based on a list from [e-mail] < 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 <[e-mail]>

XtalView
--------
  It is a crystallography package that does visualize molecules and much more.
  It uses the XView toolkit.
  Call Duncan McRee <[e-mail]>

[e-mail]:
-----------------------------
  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.

[e-mail]:
------------------------------
  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.


[e-mail]:
------------------------
  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 [e-mail].
  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 <[e-mail] or [e-mail]>

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 ([e-mail], or [e-mail]).

  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 <[e-mail]>

  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: [e-mail] ( 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 ]

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Subject: 18. 3D graphics editors
================================

+[ Check also at the FTP list in the 1st part of the Listing ]

a. Public domain, free and shareware systems
============================================

VISION-3D
---------
  Mac-based program written by Paul D. Bourke ([e-mail]).
  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
  [e-mail] 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:<msdos.srfmodl> directory.


NOODLES
-------
   From CMU, namely Fritz Printz and Levent Gursoz ([e-mail]).
   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
  <MSDOS.SURFMODL>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. [phone]


NORTHCAD
--------
  Shareware, <MSDOS.CAD>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:

  [e-mail], Phone: [phone]


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 <[e-mail]>
  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 <[e-mail]>


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 <[e-mail]>


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 [phone]        California, USA
  Pi Squared BBS [phone] Maryland USA


FreeForm
--------
  (Amiga - Shareware at 80$ USD)
  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 modification.
+  Realtime Inverse Kinematics modeling (constrained/un-constrained movement)
  and more.....

  Export your objects to:
    1.Lightwave
    2.Imagine
    3.Aladdin
    4.Caligari
    5.Real3D2
+    6.RenderMan

#  You can FTP a usable demo from any Aminet site, like ftp.wustl.edu, directory
#  pub/aminet/gfx/3d. The latest uploaded version is called FreeForm3D1.9.
+  Also available at  tomahawk.welch.jhu.edu:/pub/LW/utils

  Author: Fori Owurowa <[e-mail]> (Please start your Subject:
  line with "Fori", in order to be able to sort it out from the rest of his
  mail)
+  Address:
+  1873-75 Cropsey Ave
+  Brooklyn, NY 11214
+  718-996-1842 12 noon to 7pm Eastern


+Sced
+----
+  Constraint Based Scene Editing. Sced is a scene modeller for UNIX/X.
+  It exports scene files for both POV and Rayshade. It is being distributed
+  as source code.
+
+  Feature List:
+
+  - Cube, sphere, cone, cylinder, plane and square primitive objects.
+
+  - Full CSG capability. Accurate CSG wireframes are provided (NOT just
+  bounding boxes or component wireframes). CSG trees are manipulated by
+  operating on a representation of the tree itself.
+
+  - Constraint based editing. Objects may be constrained to satisfy certain
+  relationships and the system will maintain those relations under
+  subsequent editing.
+
+  - One, infinitely variable view of the scene. Views may be saved and later
+  recalled. Default views can be specified in a startup file and then chosen
+  when desired.
+
+  - Lights are treated the same as other objects, so they too can be
+  constrained.
+
+  - Surface attributes may be specified. At this stage textures are not
+  supported, but will be soon.
+
+  - Merging of files, allowing libraries of predefined CSG objects to be
+  created and loaded when required.
+
+  - Layers to control object visibility in complex scenes.
+
+  - Selected objects may be previewed using the raytracer of your choice.
+  CSG trees may be previewed as they are being constructed, and subtrees
+  can be previewed.
+
+  The system has been tested on several platforms, and appears to be easy to
+  port to different systems. It requires X11 Release 5.
+
+  Location: ftp.cs.su.oz.au: pub/stephen/sced
+
+  Author:
+  Stephen Chenney <[e-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
    [phone]
    [e-mail]

 [ 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 [phone]) 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: [phone]
  Fax:   [phone]

[ 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:   [e-mail] (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: [e-mail]

  And their address is:

  Spatial Technology, Inc.
  2425 55th St., Bldg. A
  Boulder, CO 80301-5704
  Phone: [phone], Fax: [phone]

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: [phone]
  E-mail: [e-mail]


twixt
-----
  Soon to add stuff about it... If I get a reply to my FAX

VOXBLAST
--------
From: boyd knosp <[e-mail]>
----------------
  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: [phone])


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
  [phone]
  [e-mail] (john w poduska)


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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 [phone] or email care of [e-mail] 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
  [e-mail].

  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 [e-mail]

  Support

  Listserv mailing lists:

  [e-mail] (for GRASS users; application-level
  questions, support concerns, miscellaneous questions, etc) Send
  subscribe commands to [e-mail].

  [e-mail] (for GRASS programmers; system-level
  questions and tips, tricks, and techniques of design and implementation
  of GRASS applications) Send subscribe commands to
  [e-mail].

  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 [e-mail] 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: [phone]
    fax: [phone]

    or you could email the Toronto HQ
    [e-mail]    ]


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:   [phone]
  Email: [e-mail]


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:      [phone]       Telephone:      [phone]
  Facsimile:      [phone]       Facsimile:      [phone]
  email: [e-mail]

PC MOSS
-------
From: [e-mail] (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
  [phone], (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 <[e-mail]>

    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: [e-mail]
    [e-mail]

  Smallworld Systems
  Brunswick House
  61-69 Newmarket Road
  Cambridge, U.K.
  Phone: [phone]

  Suite 2120
  6860 S. Yosemite Court
  Englewood, CO  80112
  Phone: [phone]
  Fax: [phone]

  Chicago marketing office: [phone]


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Subject: 20. User Interface Builders
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[ 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: [e-mail] (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 [e-mail].


>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
                                                                ([phone])
                                                                [e-mail]
*******

From: John Methot <[e-mail]>

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, [phone].  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)
                                                        [e-mail]
Builder Xcessory 2.0 *  Motif 1.1       C(Xm); C/UIL[r/w]       ICS
                                                                (617-621-0060)
                                                                [e-mail]
XBUILD 1.1 *            Motif 1.0       C(Xm); C/UIL            Nixdorf
                                                                (617-864-0066)
                                                        [e-mail]
iXBUILD                 Motif 1.1       C(Xm); C/UIL            iXOS Software
                                                                [e-mail]
                                                                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)
                                                                [e-mail]
Snapix                  Motif           C/Xm                    ADNT
                                                                [phone]
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
                                                                [phone]
[ 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.
                                                                [phone]
                                                                Fax:  [phone]
                                                                (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
                                                                [phone]

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 [e-mail].

From: "Niels P. Mayer" <[e-mail]>
---------------------

  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 [e-mail]. A commercial version of Serpent is
available as "Agora" from ASET, 221 Woodhaven Drive, Pittsburgh, PA 15228.
questions can go to [e-mail]. 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 [e-mail].

=================

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 [e-mail] 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: [e-mail] (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: [e-mail] (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.  [e-mail] tells me that Sepia Prolog and Sicstus both
have user interface tools which operate as a separate process,
communicating with Prolog over a pipe.  [e-mail] 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,
[e-mail] 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 [e-mail]" 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 :        [e-mail]
    FRANCE :    [e-mail]    ]


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: [phone]

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    [e-mail]

  Andrew             emsworth.andrew.cmu.edu
               [e-mail]

  Builder Xcessory    [e-mail]

  Carmen          [e-mail]

  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                 [e-mail]

  Garnet: [e-mail]

  Gina:      ftp.gmd.de (129.26.8.90)         in /gmd/gina
             export.lcs.mit.edu               in /contrib
         ([e-mail])

- CLIM                ftp.uu.net               in /vendor/franz/clim/clim.ps.Z
         [e-mail]

  CLUE (and CLIO)     csc.ti.com               in pub/clue.tar.Z

  CLX                 export.lcs.mit.edu:/contrib in CLX....

! HyperLook [e-mail]              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             [e-mail]


  LispView           export.lcs.mit.edu        in contrib/lispview1.1
                     xview.ucdavis.edu         in pub/XView/LispView1.1
          [e-mail]

  LispWorks          [e-mail]

! MetaCard            ftp.metacard.com         in MetaCard
         [e-mail]

  Motifation       ([e-mail]-paderborn)

  Open Interface   Neuron Data: no email or ftp found.

  Picasso            postgres.berkeley.edu     in /pub/Picasso-2.0

  ProXT, ProXL, ProWIndows
             [e-mail]   (for UK)
             [e-mail]  (from memory: else post to comp.lang.prolog!)

  Rendezvous      [e-mail]

  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              [e-mail]

  UIM/X           ???

  WCL                 devvax.jpl.nasa.gov      in pub/

  Winterp             export.lcs.mit.edu       in contrib/winterp-???.tar.Z
                                           where ??? is the version number
         [e-mail].

  WNDX             WNDX, Inc: no email or ftp found.

  XBUILD              [e-mail]


  X-Designer       [e-mail]


  XFaceMaker2      [e-mail]

  XIT             ifi.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de in /pub/xit

  YYonX              ftp.csrl.aoyama.ac.jp     in YY/


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