ianh@bhpmrl.oz.au (Ian Hoyle) (03/14/91)
Back at Siggraph '91 I noticed with some interest that SG was recruiting
for a team to work on a new scientific visualization software suite headed up
by Craig Upson of AVS fame from Stardent.
[ I hope this isn't too far wrong, since it was a pretty tough week socially
and my memory may be subsequently a bit askew with the exact details here :-) ]
Does anyone (perhaps even from Mountain View) have any light to shed on the
current status of this project??
I've been looking closely in recent months at apE (from Ohio Supercomputer
Centre) and Wavefront's Data Visualizer but both seem to be at an early stage
of development in terms of functionality and stability. I even had a good look
at AVS on a loaner Decstation 5100 and it looks pretty damn good, but that's
*not* what I want since AVS doen't ship on SG machines and that is all
I have - a room full of SG boxes :-)
Any info on this would be more than welcome.
ian
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E-mail : ianh@bhpmrl.oz.auianh@bhpmrl.oz.au (Ian Hoyle) (03/14/91)
ianh@bhpmrl.oz.au (Ian Hoyle) writes: >Back at Siggraph '91 I noticed with some interest that SG was recruiting ^^^^^ Sigh, well I meant '90 - perhaps my memory is stuffed even now ;-) ian -- Ian Hoyle /\/\ Image Processing & Data Analysis Group / / /\ BHP Research - Melbourne Laboratories / / / \ 245 Wellington Rd, Mulgrave, 3170 / / / /\ \ AUSTRALIA \ \/ / / / \ / / / Phone : +61-3-560-7066 \/\/\/ FAX : +61-3-561-6709 E-mail : ianh@bhpmrl.oz.au
jamison@boulder.ColoState.EDU (Jamie Gulden) (03/16/91)
In article <ianh.668920156@morgana> ianh@bhpmrl.oz.au (Ian Hoyle) writes: >Centre) and Wavefront's Data Visualizer but both seem to be at an early stage >of development in terms of functionality and stability. I even had a good look >at AVS on a loaner Decstation 5100 and it looks pretty damn good, but that's >*not* what I want since AVS doen't ship on SG machines and that is all >I have - a room full of SG boxes :-) > >Any info on this would be more than welcome. > > ian >-- Well here's my 2 cents worth. apE is great software for anyone without a large budget (or have managers that don't like spending money on software (yeah, you go write it, we bought you those workstations) :). But it takes some work to use it as well as liking ALOT of memory. I am very greatfull to the people at Ohio for providing the software for $75 so all of us poor folk have something to use but, if you got the money???? We just got a D&P show of DataVisualizer on thursday and is looked vary easy to use. It seems to be better at interactive visualization of three dimensional data (exp. fluid flow type stuff). One thing I didn't think to ask yesterday is if you can get a template of what you want done and then just throw data sets at it. This is important to use since we do a lot of time dependent animation of data. As for SGI's Chopper (spelling? I've only heard it said, not seen it written), it is supposed to be ready this summer, expecially for SIGGRAPH 92. Its supposedly going on preview show some time this spring. I also heard rumors that it might be more like a set of routines without an user interface. Of course this is all rumors and speculation gathered from various people, I do not work for and in no way connected to SGI. Jamison Gulden Colorado State University - Computer Visualization Laboratory
jamison@boulder.ColoState.EDU (Jamie Gulden) (03/16/91)
In article <13531@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU> jamison@yuma.UUCP (Jamie Gulden) writes: >it is supposed to be ready this summer, expecially for SIGGRAPH 92. OK, so I meant SIGGRAPH 91.
hultquis@nas.nasa.gov (Jeff P. M. Hultquist) (03/16/91)
In article <ianh.668920156@morgana> ianh@bhpmrl.oz.au (Ian Hoyle) writes: > Path: data.nas.nasa.gov!ames!rex!samsung!munnari.oz.au!bruce!merlin!ianh > From: ianh@bhpmrl.oz.au (Ian Hoyle) > Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi > Date: 14 Mar 91 03:09:16 GMT > Organization: BHP Research - Melbourne Laboratories, AUSTRALIA > > Back at Siggraph '91 I noticed with some interest that SG was > recruiting for a team to work on a new scientific visualization > software suite headed up by Craig Upson of AVS fame from > Stardent. Yes, I believe that all of this is true. > Does anyone (perhaps even from Mountain View) have any light to > shed on the current status of this project?? NASA-Ames is right next door to SGI, and we have a ton of SGI products. We were visited recently by a marketing/technical-liaison sort of person recently. He spent the day asking us questions about the sort of visualization we do here, and what sort of software we would like to see from SGI. I personally found it disconcerting that they were asking such questions so far into the project. -- jeff -- -- Jeff Hultquist hultquis@nas.nasa.gov NASA - Ames Research Center (415) 604-4970 Disclaimer: "I am not a rocket scientist."