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From: domik@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Gitta Domik)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.visualization
Subject: An Agenda for Education in Scientific Visualization
Date: 21 Aug 92 14:30:52 GMT
Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany


                       Call for Participation
                       half day workshop on
          "An Agenda for Education in Scientific Visualization"
                to take place at Visualization '92, 
                 October 20 (Tuesday afternoon), 
                          Boston, MA.

The purpose of this workshop is to develop guidelines for courses in
"Scientific Visualization". Together with a small group of workshop
participants I would like to draw from first experiences of teaching 
visualization courses. Questions we hope to answer are:
 - what should be considered "core topics" in a visualization course?
 - what are essential reference articles for these topics?
 - is there public domain software and data that should be recommended
   to instructors?
 - can we create/collect data for classic visualization models?

Participation in this workshop is limited to individuals with actual 
experience in teaching a visualization course. If you intend to be
an active participant, please submit a short statement of interest
(1 paragraph), outline of the visualization course(s) taught, your
name, preferred email address and affiliation to:
 domik@informatik.tu-muenchen.de and cc: domik@cs.colorado.edu

Deadline for position statements: September 6, 1992

Notification of acceptance: September 11, 1992

I will be in Munich, Germany, for the next month, so please send any
regular (air-)mail to:
 Gitta Domik
 Schwanthalerstrasse 143
 D-8000 Munich 2
 Germany
 Tel. ++49/89/50-54-98

(Allow for the extra delivery time from non-European countries to Germany!)
There will be a 50 $ fee to be paid on-site at the conference in order
to participate in any Visualization '92 conference. 

Looking forward to a productive workshop!

Gitta Domik
University of Colorado at Boulder
domik@informatik.tu-muenchen.de (until mid-September)
domik@cs.colorado.edu (after mid-September)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.visualization
From: brianp@meteor.wisc.edu (Brian Paul)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.visualization
Subject: VIS-5D version 3.0 now available
Date: 20 Aug 92 18:39:08 GMT
Organization: University of Wisconsin, Meteorology and Space Science


		VIS-5D version 3.0 is now available


VIS-5D is a system for interactive visualization of 5-D gridded data
sets such as those made by numeric weather models.  One can make
isosurfaces, contour line slices, colored slices, wind vector slices,
wind trajectories, 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.

Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published
by the Free Software Foundation.  Development funded by NASA.


Hardware requirements:
	Silicon Graphics:
		IRIS with VGX, GTX, TG, or G graphics
		SGI Crimson or Indigo (R4000, Elan graphics suggested)
		32MB RAM suggested
		IRIX 4.0.x
	IBM RS/6000:
		3-D graphics hardware with GL
		32MB RAM suggested
		AIX version 3 or later
	Stardent/Stellar:
		GS-1000 or GS-2000
		TrueColor display
		32MB RAM suggested

How to get it:
	% ftp vis5d.ssec.wisc.edu
		or
	% ftp 144.92.108.66

	login: anonymous
	password: myname@location

	ftp> cd pub/vis5d
	ftp> ascii
	ftp> get README
	ftp> bye

	See section 2 of the README file for complete system requirements
        and installation instructions.

Includes:
	Complete source code for visualization program and utilities
	2 sample data sets
	Sample conversion program to put your data into McIDAS format
	Documentation and porting guide
	Executable files are also available

Contact:
        Bill Hibbard (whibbard@vms.macc.wisc.edu)
        Brian Paul (bpaul@vms.macc.wisc.edu)

	Space Science and Engineering Center
	University of Wisconsin - Madison
	1225 W. Dayton St.
	Madison, WI  53706
From: newberry@newton.as.arizona.edu (Mike Newberry)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.visualization
Subject: Re: I am looking for a public software package called SAOimage ?
Date: 13 Aug 92 20:19:33 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

SAOimage is an image display program that runs under IRAF (Image Reduction
and Analysis Facility) which is produced by NOAO (National Optical Astronomy
Observatories) here in Tucson (950 N. Cherry Street, Tucson, 85726, 602-
327-5511).  SAOimage was originally written at the Smithsonian Astrophysical
Observatory in Boston (60 Garden St. Cambridge, MA  02138 617-459-????).
It displays images and allows real time pan of a zoomed portion of the
display, real time contrast/brightness, and palette changes, as well as a
few other display manipulations. SAOimage, inside IRAF, runs on Sparcstations,
and probably also Vaxes and such, as it is an X application.  If you want
similar or better levels of performance on fast 386 and 486 systems, you
might investigate MIRA (Microcomputer Image Reduction and Analysis)
available from Axiom Research, Inc., Box 44162, Tucson, AZ  85733, 602-791-
2864.  MIRA was written for astronomical image processing but very little
of it is astronomy-specific.  It supports byte, integer, and real type
images for display, analysis, arithmetic, data reduction, convolutions, etc.,
and is VERY fast on relatively modest hardware.  Uses ET-4000 based
superVGA cards, 2--4 MB memory, DOS 5.0, and a 3 button mouse.

Mike Newberry
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.visualization
From: rthomson@mesa.dsd.es.com (Rich Thomson)
Subject: Re: Changing controlling stereo real estate (possible?)
Reply-To: rthomson@dsd.es.com (Rich Thomson)
Organization: Design Systems Division, Evans & Sutherland, SLC, UT
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 92 05:36:57 GMT


I sent off a note to the original poster, but I've talked about how we
solved the stereo problem under X before in comp.windows.x.
Basically, we provide a separate virtual screen for each video mode
supported by the hardware and the server draws all 2D primitives into
both the left and right portions of the frame buffer when a stereo
screen is in use.  3D/PEX applications can supply different viewing
matrices for the left and right eyes for full stereoscopic
visualization.  Note that since the X server does the left/right
rendering for 2D primitives, all Motif GUI components and regular X
clients appear just fine, even with the glasses on and switching.

						-- Rich
-- 
	Repeal the personal income tax; vote Libertarian in 1992.
Disclaimer: I speak for myself, except as noted; Copyright 1992 Rich Thomson
UUCP: ...!uunet!dsd.es.com!rthomson			Rich Thomson
Internet: rthomson@dsd.es.com	IRC: _Rich_		PEXt Programmer
From: joe@degsyd.syd.deg.csiro.au
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.visualization
Subject: SoftImage info ?
Date: 19 Aug 92 10:55:28 +1000
Organization: CSIRO, Exploration Geoscience

G'day,

I recently heard about a company called SoftImage, doing computer graphics and
animation.  I would appreciate hearing from anyone who knows of this outfit and
their work.

Thanks, Joe
-- 
-
JOSEPH WILLIS BOARDMAN
Email: joe@syd.deg.csiro.au
Phone: 61-2-887-8884
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.visualization
From: beddow@epx.cis.umn.edu ()
Subject: Andy Rose's comments
Summary: reply
Keywords: vis92
Organization: University of Minnesota
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 14:18:32 GMT

I would like to note that the first several years of my research
in multivariate visualization was performed on an 8088 machine with
eight colors and 720x300 resolution.  So, Andy, there is hope for
those without enormous hardware budgets.  The focus of the issue
is shifted to access to the enormous data bases, and strategies for
partitioning those bases with sufficient integrity to reveal
the kinds of patterns desired.  The census data is available to
almost anyone through regional and school libraries for nominal
charges.  If you want to pursue social visualization as characterized
in Andy's post, the World Game Institute in Philadelphia is a 
source of economic/sociological/ecological data sets in easily
accessible formats.  Most of these are prepared from UN statistics.
The really interesting pattern discoveries indicated by Andy will
be found in custom sets created by researchers from diverse data.
Our tutorial at Vis92, and the workshop preceeding it, will address
some of the problems associated with this research.

I would be happy to correspond with anyone concerned with these matters.

-Jeff
From: checker@acf5.NYU.EDU (checker)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.visualization
Subject: Re: Changing controlling stereo real estate (possible?)
Date: 13 Aug 92 22:01:47 GMT
Organization: New York University

>> To now, we've only seen stereo stuff that takes over the WHOLE screen.
>> We'd like to just open a Motif window, tho, and have just that be in stereo, 
>> with the rest of the screen viewable through the stereo goggles.
>> It seems that other real estate is all messed up when the monitor is in
>> stereo mode.>    Basically the way this works is that in stereo mode the whole
>workstation screen is interlaced with odd lines seen by one eye and
>even lines the other, but only within the stereo windows are the adjacent
>raster lines filled with separate left and right view data.

My understanding of the StereoGraphics system is that it uses the
`over-under' technique to produce the stereo effect.  In other words,
you draw one eye's view on the top half of the screen, the other eye's
view on the bottom half, and that big box that you plug the goggle
controller into drives your monitor at twice the verticle refresh rate.
Each half of the screen is stretched until it covers the whole frame,
and the goggles flip accordingly.  Your vertical resolution is halved,
but the high refresh rate means no flicker.

Anyway, to address the question at hand: I'm no X windows expert, so I'm
not sure how you'd pull this off, but the solution is pretty obvious;
draw the desktop at half the vertical resolution to both the top and
bottom of the screen.  This way when the frame-rate doubler is running
you'll see the same desktop with both eyes.  You'd draw all 2d objects
identically to the top and bottom, and all 3d objects from different
viewpoints, as usual.

Chris
From: grinstei@cs.ulowell.edu (Georges Grinstein)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.visualization
Subject: Re: Rotation in nD space
Date: 19 Aug 92 11:29:06 GMT
Organization: University of Massachusetts at Lowell Computer Science

In article <1992Aug19.100559.13778@fwi.uva.nl> wijkstra@fwi.uva.nl (Marcel Wijkstra (AIO)) writes:
>My final questions are:
>
>(1) WHAT IS 'ROTATION' IN ND SPACE EXACLY (IF IT IS POSSIBLE AT ALL)?
>    This question comes merely from the difficulties I have in abstract
>    thinking, i.e. I haven't got the slightest idea what an object in
>    nD space would 'look' like.
>
There is no uniqe rotation about a line in 4D but there is a unique
(that is one can define) rotation about a plane in 4D.  The best
way to define operations in nD is to focus on lower decreasing 
dimensions:  what operations can we define for hyperplanes (n-1)D
objects, for (n-2)D subspaces, ...

For example in 5D one can define a unique normal to a hyperplane (a 4D
subspace) but no unique normal to any lower dimensional subspace.  
Thus one can define a rotation about that normal.

Normals are a good way to approach this.  Think of the nD space as
decomposed into two orthonormal subspaces (ie, 2 subspaces of
dimensions n1 and n2 such that n1+n2=n).  The rotations are operations
on these subspaces.





-- 
Dr. Georges Grinstein - Institute for Visualization and Perception Research
University of Lowell					Lowell, MA 01854
Internet: grinstein@cs.ulowell.edu			Phone: (508) 934-3627 
UUCP: {(backbones),harvard,mit-eddie,et al}!ulowell!cs.ulowell.edu!grinstein
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From: pfander@kommu.UUCP (Dr Gotthard Pfander)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics,comp.sources.wanted,comp.windows.x
Subject: Graphics development lib for C++ needed (no GUI)
Keywords: graphics, CAD, C++
Date: 14 Aug 92 12:45:26 GMT
Followup-To: poster

For a larger project we need a development library with the following
properties:

-	C++ Class Library, compatible with USL-Class-Library

-	2-Dim graphics for CAD and CAE-drawings, including
	-	segments, grouping, polygons, routing-algorithms
	-	world coordinates, printer interfaces to postscript,

-	must be operable together with OSF/Motif-components, so main-loop
	needs to be accessible.

-	Library must be extendible and usable by our programmers.

-	Must be a reliable, commercial product, with solid references.
	We even might buy sources, if possible or neccesary.

-	Major UNIX platforms needed. (HP Risc, Sun Sparc)

-	NO GUI BUILDER or interface to some widget library asked for,
	we already have one of the many variants.

If interested, please contact us by email.

pfander@kommu.erls01.siemens.de

Gotthard Pfander
SIEMENS AG, ANL A 593
Werner von Siemens Str. 50
D W8520 Erlangen
Tel +49/9131/7-28711
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
From: kaufman@eecs.nwu.edu (Michael L. Kaufman)
Subject: Re: The Worst of Siggraph (Was 'The Best of Siggraph')
Organization: EECS Department, Northwestern University
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 06:54:58 GMT

Newsgroups: speer@cs.colorado.edu
Subject: Re: The Worst of Siggraph (Was 'The Best of Siggraph')
Summary: 
Expires: 
Followup-To: 
Distribution: 
Organization: EECS Department, Northwestern University
Keywords: 


The food) I don't want to sound like a grouch, but they really skimped on the
food and on the receptions. In the past, we always got a nice sit-down meal 
with waitors at the course lunches. This year we got these cheap box lunches
piled on a table. Last year for the course reception we took over a water-park
and they gave us a good meal. Two years ago we took over this museum and we got
a good meal, this we got a good meal, but that was it. And you may have heard
that the paper/panel reception was crowded, but the thing that really sums it
up is that we were all in a room that had a sign on the wall that said 
occupency by more then 85 people is a fire hazard. 

Michael




-- 
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 kaufman        | fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in
  @eecs.nwu.edu | the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be
                | lost in time - like tears in rain. Time to die.     Roy Batty 
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
From: sem@siva.cs.wayne.edu (Rekha Manjakuppam)
Subject: volume rendering
Keywords: MIP
Organization: Wayne State University, Detroit
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 21:24:47 GMT



Has anyone heard of MIP(Maximum Intensity Projection). This is
technique used in medical area wherein images, obtained from magnetic
resonance scanners, and are 3D data sets are processed to obtain 3D
projections of the arterial system. This method probably got its name
from the fact that the contrast of the arteries and other tissues is
good in the set of images. 
I would appreciate it if some information could be passed on as to
how this works or some journals where this algorithm could be found.

My e-mail add : sem@artemis.cs.wayne.edu.

Thanks in advance.

Rekha.


Newsgroups: comp.graphics
From: x14@aix530b.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (Helmut Beisel)
Subject: Calcomp-Interface for gnuplot 
Keywords: Calcomp
 
Organization: University of Heidelberg, Germany
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 92 13:08:57 GMT

Hi,

is there anyone out there, who knows how I can support Calcomp- interface
(PLOTS, PLOT, ..) for the nice tool gnuplot (3.2) (AIX 3.1, rs/6k) or is that
available anywhere ?

Thank kindly for help!

Newsgroups: comp.graphics
From: andy@osea.demon.co.uk (Andrew Haveland-Robinson)
Subject: DKB Trace scene description 
Distribution: world
Organization: Haveland-Robinson Associates
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 04:19:51 +0000


In article <1992Aug6.114907.27786@cs.hw.ac.uk> donaldh@cs.hw.ac.uk writes:

>Does anyone have a DKB Trace scene description of a Tea Cup?

If anyone has a DXF to DKB or POV convertor, I could knock one up for you
pretty easily.

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From: ehgasm2@uts.mcc.ac.uk (Simon Marshall)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Positive suggestions about a new FAQ
Date: 12 Aug 92 19:22:16 GMT
Organization: Manchester Computing Centre, Manchester, England, M13 9PL.

In article <1992Aug12.104704.9639@cs.ucf.edu> wilson@cs.ucf.edu (tom wilson) writes:
>>>So can't you be quiet now?
>>Et tu, et al.
>Pone argumentum in nugarum tuo ordine.

Hmm.  Is this ROT-13?  My newsreader doesn't seem to unscramble it?  Hmm.  It's
about a FAQ, so it must be personal abuse anyway...

Si. ;-)


-- 
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  "Football isn't about life and death.  It's more important than that." Bill
Email: S.Marshall@Hull.ac.uk    Phone: +44 482 465181    Fax: 466666   Shankley
Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
Date: Monday, 17 Aug 1992 14:10:13 CDT
From: <U56779@uicvm.uic.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: spin the wheel

can anyone please write me a code that would spin a drwan wheel
(circle) in c, Pascal or qbasic.
thanks............
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
From: gls@windmill.att.com (Col. G. L. Sicherman)
Subject: the mandrill
Organization: Save the Dodoes Foundation
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 17:18:31 GMT

Does anybody know where I can find a true-color separation of the original
mandrill?  I used to have one, but now all I have to work from is the
"puzz" form.  (Fortunately I also have a puzztoppm, which I think is not
standard.... Let me know if you want a copy.)

-:-
	Nothing changes,
	  But nothing's the same....
	Dance and love,
	  Eat and fight
	At the DISCO,
	  Disco Delight!

			--Bob Burden, "Disco Delight"
-- 
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gls@windmill.att.COM
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From: jarle@ii.uib.no (Jarle Strand Jomfrustien 17 5030 tlf.281382)
Subject: ftp-site
Organization: Dept. of Informatics, University of Bergen
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 92 10:42:51 GMT

In a posting someone refered to a file with name VGAKIT41.ZIP. 
Does anybody know the name of a ftp-site with this file?


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Newsgroups: comp.graphics
From: don@allegra.att.com (Don Mitchell)
Subject: re:
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 16:52:09 GMT
From: diskount@micromed.com (don hirschfeld)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Speedstar 24X
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 92 15:50:20 PDT
Organization: Micro-Medic  - +1 408 279 5240 - Public Access

I was planning to get the Diamond Speedstar 24X next week. Has anyone 
found another card with better speed or features for the price? Has 
anyone found anything they do not like about it? Are the new 24bit S3 
cards faster?

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Newsgroups: comp.graphics
From: adrianr@ecr.mu.oz.au (Adriano_Ennio RAIOLA)
Subject: HELP - Producing color scans from b/w scanner
Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 06:25:56 GMT

Hi,

I own a black and white scanner.. can anyone suggest some software
for either Sun4/X11/unix or for IBM PC that can take 3 separate
input picture files - each one containing red, green and blue color
information respectively, and combine them, adding the colors, to
produce a compostite color image?

Ive tried a few packages, but none seem to do the job properly..
or am i going about it wrong by combining picture files with
shades of red, green and blue in each of the files?

Any help or suggestions would be appreciated!

Thanks


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Newsgroups: comp.graphics
From: weller@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu (Bonnie Weller)
Subject: Harvard Graphics question
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 14:58:07 GMT

I am trying to create an example of a soils layer in Harvard Graphics
but am having a difficult time filling in adjacent polygons with
different colors and/or pattern.  It seems I cannot  select ajoining
lines and assign it different polygons.  

Is there a way around this?  I suppose I could copy the line and
overlay it with the original, however, the lines are squiggly and
difficult to match up.

I cannot find a reference to this problem in my manual.  I am using
the 3.0 version.

Thanks in advance.

Bonnie
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
From: sarma@rtsg.mot.com (Raja Sarma)
Subject: Help ! Convert GIF  files to Sun RASTER file formats
Keywords: GIF RASTER SUN
Organization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Group
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 15:53:00 GMT

Hi, 
  Could someone help me find any PD software to convert gif format
files to sun raster format (preferably to convert it on the sun 
machine itself), I did not find this on the FAQ for this group
so, if you could directly send me your replies instead of posting 
I will summarize them and post it, also request it to be added in 
the next FAQ. 
 
Thanks 
 
-- Raja 
 
E-mail: sarma@maize.rtsg.mot.com 
 

Newsgroups: comp.graphics.avs
From: yang@mtu.edu (Xiaoyang Yang)
Subject: How to get control of mouse in AVS and ....
Organization: Michigan Technological University
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 19:44:36 GMT

Hi geniuses

           I wanted to if there is any way in AVS that you can control
of mouse in the way of what you can do with PHIGS/PEX/etc graphic package.
For example, you have a subroutines in PHIGS for you to request such 
functionalities as to PICK an object, to LOCATE a position of/for an object,
or whatever.    Can I do the similar thing with AVS?  Any idea will be
very helpful.

           Hope you get my problem.

Thanks
Xiaoyang


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From: yeidel@tomar.accs.wsu.edu (Joshua Yeidel)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.avs
Subject: Re: Xnetlib idea for AVS
Date: 13 Aug 92 16:57:21 GMT
Reply-To: yeidel@tomar.accs.wsu.edu (Joshua Yeidel)
Organization: Academic Computing Services, Washington State University


I'm not an expert on this, but I understand that a more
general and standard solution is available -- Gopher.

What does the net think?

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From: dlc@convex.com (Dominique Le Corre)
Subject: UCD_qsort & UCD_bsearch
Organization: CONVEX Computer Corporation, Richardson, Tx., USA
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 08:02:00 GMT
X-Disclaimer: This message was written by a user at CONVEX Computer
              Corp. The opinions expressed are those of the user and
              not necessarily those of CONVEX.


Hi,
Does anybody know what the following AVS routines do and what are 
their arguments ?
UCD_qsort
UCD_bsearch
UCD_qsorti
UCD_bsearchi

Thanx in advance.
D.LC
dlc@cvxfr.fr.convex.com