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- From: thorpe@doppler.ncsc.org (Steve Thorpe)
- Subject: Top 10 Modules at the IAC
- Message-ID: <BzzJJI.DMo@doppler.ncsc.org>
- Organization: North Carolina Supercomputing Center
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 19:59:41 GMT
- Lines: 262
-
- Hi Folks,
-
- The 10 most frequently downloaded AVS modules have been determined
- through analysis of our ftp log. Compressed tar archives of all of
- these binary executables have been created for each of the AVS Consortium
- platforms, as well as an archive of all the source. These can be found
- on the ftp site at avs.ncsc.org:avs_top10_mods/*
-
- -rwxr-xr-x 1 avs 2564497 Dec 28 13:56 Convex10.exe.tar.Z*
- -rwxr-xr-x 1 avs 4721820 Dec 28 13:56 DEC10.exe.tar.Z*
- -rwxr-xr-x 1 avs 3578731 Dec 28 13:56 HP10.exe.tar.Z*
- -rwxr-xr-x 1 avs 4174357 Dec 28 13:56 IBM10.exe.tar.Z*
- -rwxr-xr-x 1 avs 2537085 Dec 28 13:56 Kubota10.exe.tar.Z*
- -rwxr-xr-x 1 avs 4289329 Dec 28 13:56 Sun10.exe.tar.Z*
- -rwxr-xr-x 1 avs 391710 Dec 28 13:56 Top10.src.tar.Z*
-
- There are actually 11 modules included, as there are two 3D_axis modules
- included in the statistics. Their names and rankings are:
-
- Top Ten IAC Modules
- -------------------
- 12/28/92
- Rank Module
- ---- ------
- 1. READ_ANY_IMAGE
- 2. Wes's 3D_axis
- KCI's 3D_axis
- 3. WRITE_ANY_IMAGE
- 4. read_tiff
- 5. plot_xyz
- 6. mandelbrot
- 7. contour
- 8. read_gif
- 9. fast_animate
- 10. animate_file
-
-
- FYI, I'll include their documentation from the catalog below. Enjoy!
-
- -Steve
-
- PS Would you be interested in sharing your AVS work with the
- scientific visualization community worldwide via a short article
- and / or slides in an upcoming issue of AVS Network News? This
- is the IAC's quarterly magazine made up of user contributed
- articles. Thanks for considering this!
- ----------------------------------------------------------------
- Steve Thorpe, Application Visualization System Specialist
- International AVS Center, North Carolina Supercomputing Center
- PO Box 12889 3021 Cornwallis Rd, RTP, NC 27709 avs@ncsc.org
- ----------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Name : READ_ANY_IMAGE Version : 2.000 Mod Number : 1211
- Author : Terry Myerson, International AVS Center (NCSC)
- Submitted : 05/21/92 Last Updated : 05/21/92 Language : C
- Ported to : Sun DEC IBM HP
- Description : This module reads an image into an AVS Network in a variety of
- formats. All formats which the San Diego Supercomputing
- Center's image tools support, this module supports. With
- this module you can read in a postscript file, and edit it
- with the standard tools of AVS ! Any of the following image
- file formats can be read in by this module eps Encapsulated
- PostScript file, gif Compuserve Graphics image file, hdf
- Hierarchical Data File, icon Sun Icon and Cursor file, iff
- Sun TAAC Image File Format, mpnt Apple Macintosh MacPaint
- file, pbm Portable Bit Map file, pcx ZSoft IBM PC Paintbrush
- file, pgm Portable Gray Map file, pic PIXAR picture file,
- pict Apple Macintosh QuickDraw/PICT file, pix Alias image
- file, pnm Portable aNy Map file, ppm Portable Pixel Map
- file, ps PostScript file, ras Sun Rasterfile, rgb SGI RGB
- image file, rla Wavefront raster image file, rle Utah Run
- length encoded image file, rpbm Raw Portable Bit Map file,
- rpgm Raw Portable Gray Map file, rpnm Raw Portable aNy Map
- file, rppm Raw Portable Pixel Map file, synu Synu image
- file, tiff Tagged image file, x Stardent AVS X image file,
- xbm X11 bitmap file, xwd X Window System window dump image
- file.
-
- Name : 3D_axis Version : 1.000 Mod Number : 1552
- Author : Wes Bethel, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
- Submitted : 10/10/91 Last Updated : 12/18/92 Language : C
- Ported to : Sun DEC Kubota Convex HP IBM
- Description : This module generates 3D coordinate axis for a 3D data set.
- It will also optionally generate tick marks along each
- axis, numeric labels for the tick marks, and movable mesh
- planes perpendicular to each of the axes. Ported to HP and
- Sun on 12/18/92 by SRT.
-
- Name : 3D_axis Version : 1.000 Mod Number : 1152
- Author : Kubota Pacific Computer Inc
- Submitted : 03/12/92 Last Updated : 03/12/92 Language : C
- Ported to : Sun DEC Kubota Convex HP IBM
- Description : This module displays the coordinate axis of the 3D graphic
- display.
-
- Name : WRITE_ANY_IMAGE Version : 2.000 Mod Number : 1212
- Author : Terry Myerson, International AVS Center (NCSC)
- Submitted : 05/21/92 Last Updated : 05/21/92 Language : C
- Ported to : Sun DEC IBM HP
- Description : This module writes an image from an AVS Network in a variety
- of formats. All formats which the San Diego Supercomputing
- Center's image tools support, this module supports. With
- this module you can write out an AVS image in MacPaint format
- for inclusion in a to-be published document !! Any of the
- following image file formats can be read in by this module
- eps Encapsulated PostScript file, gif Compuserve
- Graphics image file, hdf Hierarchical Data File, icon Sun
- Icon and Cursor file, iff Sun TAAC Image File Format, mpnt
- Apple Macintosh MacPaint file, pbm Portable Bit Map file,
- pcx ZSoft IBM PC Paintbrush file, pgm Portable Gray Map
- file, pic PIXAR picture file, pict Apple Macintosh
- QuickDraw/PICT file, pix Alias image file, pnm Portable
- aNy Map file, ppm Portable Pixel Map file, ps PostScript
- file, ras Sun Rasterfile, rgb SGI RGB image file, rla
- Wavefront raster image file, rle Utah Run length encoded
- image file, rpbm Raw Portable Bit Map file, rpgm Raw
- Portable Gray Map file, rpnm Raw Portable aNy Map file, rppm
- Raw Portable Pixel Map file, synu Synu image file, tiff
- Tagged image file, x Stardent AVS X image file, xbm X11
- bitmap file, xwd X Window System window dump image file.
- Version 2.0 frees allocated memory after writing each
- image.
-
- Name : read_tiff Version : 2.000 Mod Number : 1159
- Author : Steve Thorpe, International AVS Center (NCSC)
- Submitted : 03/20/92 Last Updated : 12/27/92 Language : C
- Ported to : Sun DEC Kubota Convex HP IBM
- Description : This module reads a TIFF format file and creates a 32-bit
- ARGB image in the AVS "field 2D 4-vector byte" format. Code
- modified to compile on Sun, DEC, Kubota, Convex and HP on
- 12/27/92 - SRT.
-
- Name : plot_xyz Version : 1.000 Mod Number : 1064
- Author : Wes Bethel, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
- Submitted : 10/10/91 Last Updated : 10/10/91 Language : C
- Ported to : Sun DEC Kubota Convex HP IBM
- Description : This module reads an ASCII file consisting of lists of x,y,z
- points and constructs a polyline geometry object using the
- points in the file as vertices.
-
- Name : mandelbrot Version : 1.000 Mod Number : 1108
- Author : Larry Gelberg, Stardent Computer
- Submitted : 11/27/91 Last Updated : 11/27/91 Language : C
- Ported to : Sun DEC Kubota Convex HP IBM
- Description : Generates the mandelbrot set, at a specific location, for a
- certain number of iterations, at a certain size, all
- determined by paramter widgets.
-
- Name : contour Version : 2.000 Mod Number : 1023
- Author : Stardent Computer
- Submitted : 10/10/91 Last Updated : 12/16/92 Language : C
- Ported to : Sun DEC Kubota Convex HP IBM
- Description : Finds and creates contour lines of similar value in a 2D
- scalar field. The parameter "threshold" controls the
- level of contour being found. The parameter "new" controls
- the byte value written into a black (value = 0) image as the
- contour. This module could be used to find, for example, a
- contour on the red channel of an image, then overlay it back
- onto the original image. Updated by Steve Thorpe as per
- Susan Katz's suggestion on 12/16/92 to remove the
- informational messages every time it is executed.
-
- Name : read_gif Version : 1.000 Mod Number : 1101
- Author : Larry Gelberg, Stardent Computer
- Submitted : 11/22/91 Last Updated : 11/22/91 Language : C
- Ported to : Sun DEC Kubota Convex HP IBM
- Description : This module reads a GIF format file and creates a 32-bit ARGB
- image in the AVS "field 2D 4-vector byte" format. If the GIF
- file has an embedded color-map, that is used, otherwise, it
- creates a linear grey-scale ramp.
-
- Name : fast_animate Version : 1.000 Mod Number : 1181
- Author : Keith Refson, Oxford University
- Submitted : 04/30/92 Last Updated : 04/30/92 Language : C
- Ported to : Sun DEC Kubota Convex HP IBM
- Description : The fast animate module implements an animation of a
- sequence of AVS geometry files by reading them into memory
- and sending the geometries in rapid succession to its
- output port. By storing the geometries in memory it can
- achieve substantially better animation rates than the use
- of a cycle object in a script would. Furthermore the
- animation rate is independent of the length of the sequence
- until physical memory is exhausted. The module was
- developed for visuali- zation of molecular dynamics
- simulations where the geometries are "ball and stick"
- representations of molecular assemblies, but is not
- restricted to such.
-
- Name : animate_file Version : 2.000 Mod Number : 1135
- Author : Terry Myerson, International AVS Center (NCSC)
- Submitted : 02/24/92 Last Updated : 11/04/92 Language : C
- Ported to : Sun DEC Kubota Convex HP IBM
- Description : anim_fname is used to output a series of filenames for input
- into a reader module. The module inputs an integer and a
- filename base, and output a filename in the form
- "$base.%3d". This module is very useful for a series of
- files containing a time series of data. Bug fixes and
- extensions for version 2.0 added by Wes Bethel, LBL.
-
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-
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