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>From: Bernard Mendiburu <address@hidden> >Organization: UCLA >Keywords: 200311172200.hAHM0mOb011273 IDV features Hi Bernard- >I'm curently checking for datas outsending rules in my lab. >It's medical datas, i want to make sure there's no NDA-like clauses. >I'll certanely get an OK, but i'd rather wait for it. Okay. >The IDV behavior is this : >The file opening process is endless. >After a (long) while, i got a few lines on the bottom slice, and no >isosurfaces. Hmm, this is strange. >BTW, i got a few other questions : > >*1 - about the vis5d V5D file format* >The vis5d file spects allows only 100 slices (MAXLEVELS) >When i try to tricks this in the v5d.h, it seems to works. >But IDV refuses to open the file, claiming it's not a valid v5d file. > >Is there another file format we should use ? Our preferred format is netCDF, but we should be able to get the Vis5D format to work. Can you open these files in the SpreadSheet? >*2 - About files format handled by IDV* >How complex would it be to enable IDV to open DICOM files? >It's a medical file format handled by visAD If VisAD handles it, we should be able to open it in the IDV at least in the omni control. >*3 - about IDV visualisation features -> Volume Rendering* >Is it possible to make some volume rendering ? >Would it be possible to integrate volrend routines ? >http://www.j3d.org/tutorials/quick_fix/volume.html VisAD supports volume rendering, so we could probably do that in the IDV. It may be a resource hog. >*4 - about IDV visualisation features -> Stereo* >I'd like to use IVD with stereoscopic displays. >I've found dead links to the Stereo_enabled SpreadSheet. >Is it available anywhere ? >I'm curently trying to unpack visad_examples.jar without success. >Will gi futher soon.. The latest version of the IDV support stereo. You should just be able to display it on a stereo system and put it into perspective mode. I was testing the IDV on a GeoWall which is a stereo display system. >*5 - about IDV scripting and/or viewpoint control* >I'm making 3D views of our brain datas >Here're some of the pictures and movies made with IDV : >http://www.loni.ucla.edu/~bmendibu/pictures.htm >I'd like to make Vertical-axis (say Z) rotation of the model for second-eye >rendering. >The viewport control allows only X and Y rotations. >Is there any trick to handle this, but the Shift-Arrows ? Are you saying that you would like some other UI control to simulate the Shift-left/right arrow functions? That shouldn't be hard to do, but if you had a suggestion for what the widget would look like, let us know. >Is there any Jython sample script who generated a series of jgp pictures i >could use as a start point ? Not really. I'll have to think about this and get back to you. Scripting is on our list of things to do. >*About all thoses questions* >We've got some JAVA programmers here who could handle that, but I wonder if >you've any clue on the complexity of thoses tasks. >I've subscribed to the idv users and devlopers mailists, and is curently >searching them. There has not been much traffic on those lists since the IDV is really only 6 months old (officially). Except for the last one, I don't think the others are that hard. >Thanks for your help. Thanks for your unique use of the IDV! Don Murray **************************************************************************** Unidata User Support UCAR Unidata Program 303 497 8643 P.O. Box 3000 address@hidden Boulder, CO 80307 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unidata WWW Service http://my.unidata.ucar.edu/content/support ****************************************************************************