[vtkusers] Porting Osirix to Linux / Windows

[Steve M. Robbins]

On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 08:16:09AM -0400, Roch Comeau wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> While I am not an Osirix Developer and I can't speak for them, a  
> quick look at the resources used by Osirix tells me that you are in  
> for a lot of work, and essentially have to write a new application  
> because Osirix uses a lot of Apple specific technologies. These include:
> 
> -Altivec accelerated math libraries
> -vImage library for image processing

This one caught my eye.  I'm wondering if you looked at it deeply enough
to find out why Osirix uses vImage rather than image processing bits of
VTK.  What functionality used is missing from VTK?

-Steve