This application maintained the quick reponse needed for effective real-time interaction by distributing the computational load between a SiliconGraphics machine and a Convex supercomputer. A very portable tool for viewing arbitrary oblique slices through such data was also developed. This program allows interactive display of orthogonal and oblique slices throught volumemetric data without using any machine-specific functions. The application was written in pure ANSI-standard C and uses X Window and Motif Toolkit for its interface. The X Window application is now enhanced to visualize the volume data in stereo on a SiliconGraphics workstation equiped with the StereoGraphics stereo system.
Images elow are four images of surface-based models, created by the X visualization planes.
One could walk around the data, slice through it, and receive the sensation that one was actually in the computer graphic environment. This system was also shown at the Supercomputing 92 conference and the 1992 meeting of the Radiological Society of North America. Processing cross-sectional image data for reconstruction of human developmental anatomy from museum specimens.