Re: [Update REQ 5151]: Reading data into Geomview

[Sonali_Parekh at brown.edu]

>From: daeron
>Subject: Re: [ REQ 5151]: Reading data into Geomview
>   What you are trying to do is called volume rendering, something that
Geomview,
>unfortunately, is not very good at.  Geomview is optimized to do polygonal,
line or dot
>rendering which means you'd have to convert your volume data to an object
built from say
>cubes (where each cube is placed at the location of a "1") or alternatively
convert
>to a 3D array of dots and play connect-the-dots to see the edge you're
talking about.
>
>An alternative would be to use a program specifically designed to do volume
rendering,
>such as "Bob" available from the Army Research Center.
>
>Check out the overview of "Bob" with your favorite web viewer by URLing
over to:
>http://www.arc.umn.edu/html/gvl-software/bob.html
>
>The program runs only on SGI's and you'd better have a fast graphics board
(like VGX)
>or it will be extremely slow.  You can get the program via ftp from
ftp.arc.umn.edu
>
>Hope this helps. If you have any more questions feel free to write us again.

        Is there an easy way to convert the data?  Has anyone written a
program to "connect the dots" or make cubes?
        At Brown we are using Suns running Solaris, so we would be unable to
run Bob. Is there a similar program that runs on Solaris?
        Thanks for your help.
        -Josh