ksmith@cubsun.BIO.COLUMBIA.EDU (Kenneth Smith) (04/08/89)
Solids Modeling program needed for neuron reconstruction. The host machine is a Silicon Graphics 4D70GT. We are looking for a program to render the surfaces of several objects at once, given a set of non-uniformly distributed points on the boundaries of equally spaced slices through the objects. The data consist of the outlines of neurons traced automatically from serial electron micrographs. Many individual neurons may be traced in each frame, and their reconstructions from a series of frames must be treated as separate objects by the display program. The traced neuron contours can have arbitrary shape, and the reconstructed objects are of arbitrary complexity, i.e. they may be simple tubes or highly branched. We are already familiar with Alpha1 and Voxel/View. If anyone knows of any other packages, I would appreciate hearing about it. Thanks- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kenneth C. Smith INTERNET: ksmith@cubmol.bio.columbia.edu Computer Graphics Facility UUCP: ...!columbia!cubmol!ksmith Dept. of Biological Sci. BITNET: ksmith%cubmol.bio.columbia.edu@cuvmb.bitnet Columbia University, New York, NY 10027
ee993@venus.ycc.yale.edu (04/08/89)
In article <258@cubsun.BIO.COLUMBIA.EDU>, ksmith@cubsun.BIO.COLUMBIA.EDU (Kenneth Smith) writes... > >Solids Modeling program needed for neuron reconstruction. The host machine >is a Silicon Graphics 4D70GT. > A good program package is Movie.BYU
jmb@patton.SGI.COM (Jim Barton) (04/09/89)
In article <258@cubsun.BIO.COLUMBIA.EDU>, ksmith@cubsun.BIO.COLUMBIA.EDU (Kenneth Smith) writes: > > Solids Modeling program needed for neuron reconstruction. The host machine > is a Silicon Graphics 4D70GT. > Have you checked out Vital Images? They have 3D software which does exactly this. -- Jim Barton Silicon Graphics Computer Systems "UNIX: Live Free Or Die!" jmb@sgi.sgi.com, sgi!jmb@decwrl.dec.com, ...{decwrl,sun}!sgi!jmb "I used to be disgusted, now I'm just amused." - Elvis Costello, 'Red Shoes' --