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From: rmorris@mv.mv.com (Robert Morris)
Subject: Special Direct Volume Rendering Code
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Follow Netters:

   I'm initiating a search for highly-specialized computer
code.

   The code has to take a rectilinear grid of voxels as input,
and output an image using Direct Volume Rendering.  Any direct
volume rendering approach won't work.  It has to be based on
Transport Theory or Wave Optics.  Ideally, I'd like to be
able to evaluate several packages using both approaches.  Feel
free to mention Radiosity packages also, but my interest
is mainly in the other approaches.

   I need to be able to alter the code to bias the degrees of
refraction, dispersion, scattering, reflection, diffraction,
inteference and polarization.  Each package doesn't have to
be able to handle all of these attributes of light - subsets
of these is what I expect.  If one single package can handle
all of the above, that would be nice - but I'm already asking
for a lot.  I want to test the data feature enhancement
capabilities of different (and sometimes exotic) configurations
of the behavior of light.

   I'm looking for these programs to help accelerate my
progress toward a Doctor of Science degree in Computer Science.
As a result, it has to be free - and will most likely have been
formed from some prior research effort as a result.  You can
suggest packages that cost money if you want - I don't have
any, but would like to hear of these packages.  If I can't
locate this code, I'll be forced to develop it from scratch
on my own.  It can run on just about anything: MAC, Windows PC,
SGI, Linux, various UNIX-based workstations, etc.

   Any help you can give will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!!

Rob Morris
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Robert O. Morris    Institute for Visualization and Perception Research (IVPR)
                    UMASS/Lowell  Email: rmorris@cs.uml.edu
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