SunVision

Sun Visualization software, providing SunIPLib (Image Processing), SunVoxel (volume rendering), SunART (high-quality rendering), SunGV (interactive 3D graphics).

Platforms: Sun (SunOS under X).
WWW Server: http://www.sun.com

Contact:

	Sun Microsystems
	2550 Garcia Avenue
	Mountain View, CA 94043
	Phone: 415-960-1300

Comments:
- Matthew T. Adams: I have a SparcStation 2 (SunOS 4.1.3) with OpenWindows 3, and I use SunVision 1.1 to do MRI volume renderings.
  Advantages:
  - easily customizable (interactive GUI editor)
  - you can hook in your own C code to the GUIs
  - volume renderings (SunVoxel)
  - lots of image processing tools (SunIP)
  - photorealistic rendering (SunART, using Pixar's RenderMan)
  - geometric renderings (SunGV)
  - animation (SunMovie)
  - C library containing all tools in all the above modules.
  - straightforward file format (for volume & image data, at least)
  Drawbacks:
  - SunVision 1.1 is the last version -no new stuff. Sun recommends SunVideo.
  - speed (I'm not sure if it's slow because of sloppy coding or my slow machine): ~3 minutes to render a 256x256x50 8-bit volume, ~12-15 minutes to render a 256x256x124 8 bit volume.