koziol@yoyodyne.ncsa.uiuc.edu (07/28/90)
Hi Netters, Here at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications we produce public domain applications for IBM PC's, Apple Macintoshes, and anything which can support X. We have already produced products like NCSA Telnet for the Macintoch & PC, a Macintosh scientific vaisualization suite and some scientific visualization software under the X Window System, among other things. What I am going to be doing over the course of the next year will be to write a suite of tools for scientific visualization on the IBM PC under Microsoft Windows. I would like opinions on what features people would like to see in this set of tools, make it as much of a wish list as possible I will see what I can cram into the tools. Some possible features already discussed: Magnification and bilinear interpolation independently in x & y dimensions from .01 to 99.99 (fractional, not just integral factors) Contour mapping of raster images. Histogram equalization of raster images. Direct manipulation of raster data to perform mathematical functions on selected areas. Convolution filters over selected image areas. Displaying raster data as a height field in a 3-D grid. Manipulation of the color look up table to enhance various aspects of the image. A tool to construct palettes to apply to raster images. A layout tool to create displays for publication or photographing. What else would everyone like to see in a scientific visualization/ image analysis tool? BTW this tool and it's source code will be in the public domain. Quincey Koziol Programmer NCSA koziol@ncsa.uiuc.edu