yeidel@wsuvm1.csc.wsu.edu (Joshua Yeidel) (03/09/91)
In article <38945@netnews.upenn.edu> joe@retina.anatomy.upenn.edu (Joseph Panico) writes: >Newsgroups: comp.graphics.visualization >Subject: MOVIE.BYU ... in MOVIE.BYU format. Where can I get MOVIE.BYU and the data formats for >both MOVIE.BYU and Wavefront's personal visualizer? > > Joe Panico > joe@retina.anatomy.upenn.edu ... MOVIE.BYU is available from: Janine Cooper Engineering Computer Graphics Laboratory 368 Clyde Building, Brigham Young University Provo, Utah 84602 USA Phone: (801) 378-2812 FAX: (801) 378-2478 I just got the brochure and was disappointed to learn that BYU is charging $1000 to academic institutions for the program with TEK and generic drivers, plus $100 for each additional device driver. The program ships as FORTRAN77 source. *** Joshua Yeidel *** Phone: 509/335-0441 *** Academic Computing Services *** Fax: 509/335-0540 *** Washington State University *** BITNET: YEIDEL@WSUVM1 *** Pullman, WA 99164-1226 *** Internet: yeidel@wsuvm1.csc.wsu.edu *** I'm speaking for myself here, not Washington State University. ***
annala@neuro.usc.edu (A J Annala) (03/09/91)
>I just got the brochure and was disappointed to learn that BYU is charging >$1000 to academic institutions for the program with TEK and generic drivers, >plus $100 for each additional device driver. The program ships as FORTRAN77 >source. In the first place, SDSC's synu program was written by my friend Brandyn Webb. Brandyn's name appears without any mention of Dave Hessler on the original synu source code and original synu user distribution documentation and report. Byandyn left SDSC for greener pastures soon after finishing the first version of the synu package. Dave Hessler may have improved on the original synu code but the name, concepts, and original execution were generated by Brandyn. In the second place, MOVIE.BYU is an ancient polygon rendering package which is severely lacking in data management and rendering capabilities. Why anyone would pay anything approaching $1,000 for this code is beyond me. You would be much better off getting a copy of BRLCAD (anonymous ftp for ordering info from vgr.brl.mil). BRLCAD is much better suited for the neuronal data base management and rendering application described in your original posting on this subject. BRLCAD can produce 2D & 3D color line drawings and beautiful 3D renderings of your dendritic arborization data. Alexander James Annala Neurosience Image Analysis Center HEDCO Neuroscience Building, Room 226 University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA 90089-2520