Voxel-based 3d volume rendering system developed by Randall Frank at the
University of Iowa Image Analysis Facility.
Some of its advantages include:
Multiple platform support
Software based renderer - the faster the cpu the faster the renderer
Motif/X-windows GUI
Command line interface - macro definition possible
Unix Version allows external modules to be added via TCP/IP links
True 3D analysis tools built into software
Several segmentation algorithms built into software
Displays polygonal data in addition to Voxel data
Powerful built-in Palette editor for color and opacity definition
Contains Brainvox tracing for correlating 3D views with cross sectional
views
Several support tools exist for Unix and Windows versions, including
volumetric math calculations and image analysis.
Platforms: Unix (SGI, Sun, DEC, HP, IBM RS6000), Macintosh, PC (Windows).
FTP: Demo available- contact for username/password.
Contact:
Vaytek, Inc.
305 West Lowe
PO Box 732
Fairfield, Iowa 52556
Phone: 515-472-2227
Fax: 515-472-8131
Comments:
Alex Colburn: PC options may be slower than other hardware
options, but our version of Voxblast running under Windows,
will render at about 800,000 voxels per second on a 486 DX2,
w/ 16M RAM. Granted it takes about 3 seconds to render the
standard hogheart volume (202x132x144) and larger volumes
take longer...