NCSA Tool Suite (DataSlice, Viewit, Tiller)

NCSA Tool Suite (DataSlice, Viewit, Tiller).

Viewit is a memory hog which can do array manipulations on entire 3d datasets, some limited format conversions, and 3D volumetric projections. Tiller is an SGI viewer for viewit displays.

A viewit electronic newsletter is distributed on an irregular basis - email to viewit@ncsa.uiuc.edu to request a subscription. Clint Potter (the original author and pricipal contact) is at cpotter@ncsa.uiuc.edu.

Platforms: DEC, IBM, SGI, Sun, Cray, Mac.
Cost: Free.

Contact:

	 	National Center for Supercomputing Applications
	 	Computing Applications Building
	 	605 E. Springfield Ave.
	 	Champaign, IL 61820

Email: viewit@ncsa.uiuc.edu.

FTP (ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu)/WWW:
- DataSlice: /UNIX/XDataSlice
- Viewit:
- Tiller: /misc/tiller
Comments:
- Patrick Moran: Viewit has a command line interface and is not the friendliest software that you can use. On the other hand it does have a large number of built-in functions that are useful for image processing, including functions for MR reconstruction. Viewit is used by researchers doing work in MR here.
- Joe Biegel: I never said Viewit had a great User I/F - in fact it doesn't! However, it does MANY things including volume rendering quite well. If you read the documentation, it's not that hard to get results. It's also free. I've been using it for a few years - it's not NIH Image, but it DOES do things like depth cued volume rendering. I've used it quite a bit for brain imaging visualization - it works - there is a learning curve, but it works.
- Alexander-James Annala: If you have a SUN SPARC workstation/server with >250M free memory available (that's free memory -- not available disk space) then you can use NCSA's Viewit (NMR Imaging and Spectroscopy Package) to do 3d volumetric imaging at full resolution of the UNC CHVRTD datasets. The following SUN SPARC recipe displays multiple views of a 3D head: get any X11R5 (or maybe X11R4) server running on myhost - this is where you are going to display images -- rlogin to bighost - this is where you will need the free memory for storing intermediate results during the volume rendering.