[vtkusers] Re: BOB volume rendering for MacOSX X11 - sample data looks funny?

[Dr. Daniel James White PhD]

> From: "Dr. Daniel James White PhD" <dan at chalkie.org.uk>
> Date: 17 November 2004 11:41:34 GMT+02:00
> To: sci-vis at lists.apple.com
> Cc: mayavi-users at lists.sourceforge.net, osirix at yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [osirix] Re: BOB volume rendering  for MacOSX X11 -  sample 
> data looks funny?
> Reply-To: osirix at yahoogroups.com
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>
> Hi Totte,
>
> I just downloaded and installed your BOB volume renderer for MACOSX
> X11, and it looks great!
> However, I have a question,
> the sample data looks rather odd to me
> and I am either doing something wrong, or there is something wrong.....
>
> please look at
> http://daniel.bio.jyu.fi/~dan/picture2.pdf
>
> to see what I mean, I just followed the instructions in the sample data
> set.
> Is this normal. Looks abnormal to me, but then it depends what  it
> should look like!
>
> I am using volume rendering in MayaVi, a python GUI for VTK. Also
> enabled on linux with a volumepro1000 hardware ray casting board, which
> is very fast, but a bit expensive! (soon to be available for OSX
> apparently, see terearecon inc. and OSIRIX)
>
> Have you considered porting BOB into a VTK class, so that the thousands
> of VTK users (including and MayaVi and OSIRIX)  would have access to
> this fast rendering tool?
> We might be interesting in helping with that.
>
> Are you at Karolinska Instiutute?
> There is a virology guy called Holland Cheng there, who might be
> interested in this algorithm for displaying the 3D structure of viruses
> ....
>
> cheers
>
> Dan
>
>
>
>
> On 16 Nov 2004, at 22:09, sci-vis-request at lists.apple.com wrote:
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>>    1. icol and bob (brick of bytes) (Totte Alm)
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>> Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 14:49:43 +0100
>> From: Totte Alm <totte at 3tag.com>
>> Subject: icol and bob (brick of bytes)
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>> Hello,
>>
>> I just want to inform everyone that 3TAG  together with Professor Ulf
>> Skoglund of KI, Stockholm, Sweden has brought
>> bob (brick of bytes) and icol to Mac OS X using X11, so now the 
>> fastest
>> volumetric renderer finally works on Mac OS X.
>>
>> Everything is available, open source and free, from our website,
>> <http://www.3tag.com/>
>> bob and icol was first written for Silicon Graphics / IRIX in 1992 by
>> AHPCRC, and the original website is here:
>> <http://www.ahpcrc.org/software/bob/>
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Totte Alm
>> 3TAB AB - Stockholm - Sweden
>> http://www.3tag.com/
>>
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> Dr. Daniel James White BSc. (Hons.) PhD
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Dr. Daniel James White BSc. (Hons.) PhD
Cell Biology, Ambiotica C242
Department of biological and environmental science
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