From info-volumizer-owner@els.sgi.com Tue Jul 15 09:58:28 2003 Received: from els.sgi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by els.sgi.com (8.12.9/8.12.2/els-2.2) with ESMTP id h6FGwSUN3359597; Tue, 15 Jul 2003 09:58:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by els.sgi.com (8.12.9/8.12.8/Submit) id h6FGwRI23676110; Tue, 15 Jul 2003 09:58:27 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: els.sgi.com: majordom set sender to owner-info-volumizer@els.sgi.com using -f Received: from zok.sgi.com (zok.SGI.COM [204.94.215.101]) by els.sgi.com (8.12.9/8.12.2/els-2.2) with ESMTP id h6FGoeUN3669615 for ; Tue, 15 Jul 2003 09:50:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kraftwerk.corp.sgi.com (kraftwerk.corp.sgi.com [192.26.51.114]) by zok.sgi.com (8.12.9/8.12.2/linux-outbound_gateway-1.2) with ESMTP id h6FGodiY023122 for ; Tue, 15 Jul 2003 09:50:39 -0700 Received: from mrcoffee.engr.sgi.com (mrcoffee.engr.sgi.com [192.102.96.154]) by kraftwerk.corp.sgi.com (8.12.9/8.11.4/ils-2.0) with ESMTP id h6FGodoW22519690 for ; Tue, 15 Jul 2003 09:50:39 -0700 (PDT) mail_from (praveenb@mrcoffee.engr.sgi.com) Received: from mrcoffee.engr.sgi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mrcoffee.engr.sgi.com (SGI-8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id h6FGodYF354329 for ; Tue, 15 Jul 2003 09:50:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (praveenb@localhost) by mrcoffee.engr.sgi.com (SGI-8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) with ESMTP id h6FGocne353615 for ; Tue, 15 Jul 2003 09:50:38 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 09:50:38 -0700 From: Praveen Bhaniramka To: info-volumizer@kraftwerk.corp.sgi.com Subject: [info-volumizer] SGI Introduces Onyx4 UltimateVision Systems Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=X-UNKNOWN Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from QUOTED-PRINTABLE to 8bit by els.sgi.com id h6FGofUN3662970 Sender: owner-info-volumizer@els.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Reply-To: info-volumizer@els.sgi.com Hi Volumizers! SGI has just introduced two new & much-anticipated MIPS/IRIX systems: the Silicon Graphics Onyx4 UltimateVision, a new generation of the Onyx family; and the Silicon Graphics Tezro, our next generation visual workstation platform. I'll quote a few highlights about the new Onyx4 system below. Please visit the SGI website, contact us, contact your SGI reps, or simply reply back on info-volumizer, for more information! Silicon Graphics Onyx4 UltimateVision ------------------------------------- "The new Onyx4 UltimateVision system shatters existing benchmarks for high-performance visualization systems. It is simply the world's most scalable system of its kind, providing the exact capabilities that a user needs. This remarkable system scales to unprecedented levels in a shared-memory environment--up to 64 MIPS® processors and 32 graphics pipelines in standard configurations and further still under custom configurations. Scalability is achieved using the award-winning SGI® NUMAflex(TM) shared-memory architecture for maximum throughput. The result is a revolution in visualization at all levels; Onyx4 delivers an amazing eight times better performance, one-fifth the size, and a price that is five times lower than previous generations. "Onyx4 also features best-in-class standards-based graphics components and a wealth of new features. One such feature is pipeline programmability, which enables increased realism in a single pass and allows relevant computational tasks such as tessellation to be shifted from the CPU to the graphics pipeline. This dramatically accelerates visualization and enables the creation of extraordinarily rich, stunningly realistic, real-time environments." Onyx4 UltimateVision starts at $45,000, one-fifth the price of previous Onyx systems. Product Information: http://www.sgi.com/visualization/onyx4/ Press Release: http://www.sgi.com/newsroom/press_releases/2003/july/onyx4.html Onyx4 UltimateVision at a glance: http://www.sgi.com/visualization/onyx4/ataglance.pdf OpenGL Volumizer 2.5 will provide extended support for the new Onyx4 systems. The release will include new features to harness the power of the pipeline programmability offered by the new systems. Stay tuned for the release announcement for a complete list of new features in 2.5! Cheers, Praveen From info-volumizer-owner@els.sgi.com Tue Jul 15 15:15:35 2003 Received: from els.sgi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by els.sgi.com (8.12.9/8.12.2/els-2.2) with ESMTP id h6FMFYUN3681560; Tue, 15 Jul 2003 15:15:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by els.sgi.com (8.12.9/8.12.8/Submit) id h6FMFY3r3659237; Tue, 15 Jul 2003 15:15:34 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: els.sgi.com: majordom set sender to owner-info-volumizer@els.sgi.com using -f Received: from pat.uio.no (pat.uio.no [129.240.130.16]) by els.sgi.com (8.12.9/8.12.2/els-2.2) with ESMTP id h6FM7JUN3646368 for ; Tue, 15 Jul 2003 15:07:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail-mx3.uio.no ([129.240.10.44]) by pat.uio.no with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #7) id 19cXx8-0007H1-00 for info-volumizer@els.sgi.com; Wed, 16 Jul 2003 00:07:18 +0200 Received: from [129.240.130.14] (helo=mons.uio.no) by mail-mx3.uio.no with esmtp (Exim 4.14) id 19cXx4-0006aa-Bj for info-volumizer@els.sgi.com; Wed, 16 Jul 2003 00:07:14 +0200 Received: from snapp.uio.no ([129.240.130.64]) by mons.uio.no with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #7) id 19cXx4-0006hM-00 for info-volumizer@els.sgi.com; Wed, 16 Jul 2003 00:07:14 +0200 Received: from uls-dhcp010.studby.uio.no ([129.240.110.40] helo=trondgasb) by snapp.uio.no with smtp (Exim 2.12 #7) id 19cXx3-0004rJ-00 for info-volumizer@els.sgi.com; Wed, 16 Jul 2003 00:07:13 +0200 Message-ID: <001b01c34b1d$b8d46d50$286ef081@trondgasb> From: "Trond Gaarder" To: References: Subject: Re: [info-volumizer] SGI Introduces Onyx4 UltimateVision Systems Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 00:09:11 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 X-MailScanner-Information: This message has been scanned for viruses/spam. Contact postmaster@uio.no if you have questions about this scanning. X-UiO-MailScanner: No virus found Sender: owner-info-volumizer@els.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Reply-To: info-volumizer@els.sgi.com Cheers Praveen The new SGI hardware looks very interesting. Can you give any kind hint as to when we can expect to see Volumizer 2.5? Keep up the good work -Trond ----- Original Message ----- From: "Praveen Bhaniramka" To: Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 6:50 PM Subject: [info-volumizer] SGI Introduces Onyx4 UltimateVision Systems Hi Volumizers! SGI has just introduced two new & much-anticipated MIPS/IRIX systems: the Silicon Graphics Onyx4 UltimateVision, a new generation of the Onyx family; and the Silicon Graphics Tezro, our next generation visual workstation platform. I'll quote a few highlights about the new Onyx4 system below. Please visit the SGI website, contact us, contact your SGI reps, or simply reply back on info-volumizer, for more information! Silicon Graphics Onyx4 UltimateVision ------------------------------------- "The new Onyx4 UltimateVision system shatters existing benchmarks for high-performance visualization systems. It is simply the world's most scalable system of its kind, providing the exact capabilities that a user needs. This remarkable system scales to unprecedented levels in a shared-memory environment--up to 64 MIPS® processors and 32 graphics pipelines in standard configurations and further still under custom configurations. Scalability is achieved using the award-winning SGI® NUMAflex(TM) shared-memory architecture for maximum throughput. The result is a revolution in visualization at all levels; Onyx4 delivers an amazing eight times better performance, one-fifth the size, and a price that is five times lower than previous generations. "Onyx4 also features best-in-class standards-based graphics components and a wealth of new features. One such feature is pipeline programmability, which enables increased realism in a single pass and allows relevant computational tasks such as tessellation to be shifted from the CPU to the graphics pipeline. This dramatically accelerates visualization and enables the creation of extraordinarily rich, stunningly realistic, real-time environments." Onyx4 UltimateVision starts at $45,000, one-fifth the price of previous Onyx systems. Product Information: http://www.sgi.com/visualization/onyx4/ Press Release: http://www.sgi.com/newsroom/press_releases/2003/july/onyx4.html Onyx4 UltimateVision at a glance: http://www.sgi.com/visualization/onyx4/ataglance.pdf OpenGL Volumizer 2.5 will provide extended support for the new Onyx4 systems. The release will include new features to harness the power of the pipeline programmability offered by the new systems. Stay tuned for the release announcement for a complete list of new features in 2.5! Cheers, Praveen From info-volumizer-owner@els.sgi.com Tue Jul 15 15:45:44 2003 Received: from els.sgi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by els.sgi.com (8.12.9/8.12.2/els-2.2) with ESMTP id h6FMjhUN3704126; Tue, 15 Jul 2003 15:45:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by els.sgi.com (8.12.9/8.12.8/Submit) id h6FMjhMD3668340; Tue, 15 Jul 2003 15:45:43 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: els.sgi.com: majordom set sender to owner-info-volumizer@els.sgi.com using -f Received: from tolkor.sgi.com (tolkor.SGI.COM [198.149.18.6]) by els.sgi.com (8.12.9/8.12.2/els-2.2) with ESMTP id h6FMeAUN3639897 for ; Tue, 15 Jul 2003 15:40:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from flecktone.americas.sgi.com (flecktone.americas.sgi.com [192.48.203.135]) by tolkor.sgi.com (8.12.9/8.12.2/linux-outbound_gateway-1.2) with ESMTP id h6FMwamO012013 for ; Tue, 15 Jul 2003 17:58:36 -0500 Received: from spindle.corp.sgi.com (spindle.corp.sgi.com [198.29.75.13]) by flecktone.americas.sgi.com (8.12.9/8.12.9/generic_config-1.2) with ESMTP id h6FMe8qX9715839 for ; Tue, 15 Jul 2003 17:40:09 -0500 (CDT) Received: from mtv-atc-009e--n.corp.sgi.com (mtv-atc-009e--n.corp.sgi.com [192.26.60.130]) by spindle.corp.sgi.com (8.12.9/8.12.9/generic_config-1.2) with ESMTP id h6FMe8hr103353617 for ; Tue, 15 Jul 2003 15:40:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mtv-atc-009e--n.corp.sgi.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2655.55) id <35XWWLDM>; Tue, 15 Jul 2003 15:40:08 -0700 Message-ID: <401AB3C78169D711B9F50004ACE8426722E803@mtv-atc-009e--n.corp.sgi.com> From: Luci Lagrimas To: "'info-volumizer@els.sgi.com'" Subject: RE: [info-volumizer] SGI Introduces Onyx4 UltimateVision Systems Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 15:40:01 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2655.55) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by els.sgi.com id h6FMeBUN3685128 Sender: owner-info-volumizer@els.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Reply-To: info-volumizer@els.sgi.com Hello Trond, I am the Project Manager for Volumizer. You will be seeing Volumizer 2.5 very soon. It is in the final stages of our product release process. We hope to have it in your hands by the end of next week or sooner. Cheers, Luci Lagrimas > -----Original Message----- > From: Trond Gaarder [mailto:trondga@ifi.uio.no] > Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 3:09 PM > To: info-volumizer@els.sgi.com > Subject: Re: [info-volumizer] SGI Introduces Onyx4 UltimateVision > Systems > > > Cheers Praveen > > The new SGI hardware looks very interesting. Can you give any > kind hint > as to when we can expect to see Volumizer 2.5? > > > Keep up the good work > > -Trond > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Praveen Bhaniramka" > To: > Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 6:50 PM > Subject: [info-volumizer] SGI Introduces Onyx4 UltimateVision Systems > > > Hi Volumizers! > > SGI has just introduced two new & much-anticipated MIPS/IRIX > systems: the > Silicon Graphics Onyx4 UltimateVision, a new generation of the Onyx > family; and the Silicon Graphics Tezro, our next generation visual > workstation platform. I'll quote a few highlights about the new Onyx4 > system below. Please visit the SGI website, contact us, > contact your SGI > reps, or simply reply back on info-volumizer, for more information! > > Silicon Graphics Onyx4 UltimateVision > ------------------------------------- > "The new Onyx4 UltimateVision system shatters existing benchmarks for > high-performance visualization systems. It is simply the world's most > scalable system of its kind, providing the exact capabilities > that a user > needs. This remarkable system scales to unprecedented levels in a > shared-memory environment--up to 64 MIPS® processors and 32 graphics > pipelines in standard configurations and further still under custom > configurations. Scalability is achieved using the award-winning SGI® > NUMAflex(TM) shared-memory architecture for maximum > throughput. The result > is a revolution in visualization at all levels; Onyx4 > delivers an amazing > eight times better performance, one-fifth the size, and a > price that is > five times lower than previous generations. > > "Onyx4 also features best-in-class standards-based graphics > components and > a wealth of new features. One such feature is pipeline > programmability, > which enables increased realism in a single pass and allows relevant > computational tasks such as tessellation to be shifted from > the CPU to the > graphics pipeline. This dramatically accelerates > visualization and enables > the creation of extraordinarily rich, stunningly realistic, real-time > environments." > > Onyx4 UltimateVision starts at $45,000, one-fifth the price > of previous > Onyx systems. > > Product Information: > http://www.sgi.com/visualization/onyx4/ > > Press Release: > http://www.sgi.com/newsroom/press_releases/2003/july/onyx4.html > > Onyx4 UltimateVision at a glance: > http://www.sgi.com/visualization/onyx4/ataglance.pdf > > OpenGL Volumizer 2.5 will provide extended support for the new Onyx4 > systems. The release will include new features to harness the > power of the > pipeline programmability offered by the new systems. Stay > tuned for the > release announcement for a complete list of new features in 2.5! > > Cheers, > Praveen > > From info-volumizer-owner@els.sgi.com Thu Jul 24 12:08:44 2003 Received: from els.sgi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by els.sgi.com (8.12.9/8.12.2/els-2.2) with ESMTP id h6OJ8hUN3867826; Thu, 24 Jul 2003 12:08:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by els.sgi.com (8.12.9/8.12.8/Submit) id h6OJ8hWA3860865; Thu, 24 Jul 2003 12:08:43 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: els.sgi.com: majordom set sender to owner-info-volumizer@els.sgi.com using -f Received: from tolkor.sgi.com (tolkor.SGI.COM [198.149.18.6]) by els.sgi.com (8.12.9/8.12.2/els-2.2) with ESMTP id h6OJ0lUN3864355 for ; Thu, 24 Jul 2003 12:00:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from suez.americas.sgi.com ([137.38.224.113]) by tolkor.sgi.com (8.12.9/8.12.9/linux-outbound_gateway-1.1) with ESMTP id h6OJJjsR004990 for ; Thu, 24 Jul 2003 14:19:45 -0500 Received: from vrazalla.sgi.com (vrazalla.sgi.com [192.26.57.43]) by suez.americas.sgi.com (8.12.9/8.12.9/generic_config-1.2) with ESMTP id h6OI69Xj045668 for ; Thu, 24 Jul 2003 13:06:10 -0500 (CDT) Received: from vrazalla.sgi.com (localhost.sgi.com [127.0.0.1]) by vrazalla.sgi.com (8.12.9/8.12.9/freebsd-sendmail_sa_midwest-2.1) with ESMTP id h6OJ0sFE018640 for ; Thu, 24 Jul 2003 12:01:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.cvrti.utah.edu (xserve.cvrti.utah.edu [155.100.140.8]) by vrazalla.sgi.com (8.12.9/8.12.9/freebsd-nospam-3.3) with ESMTP id h6OIwxV2018202 for ; Thu, 24 Jul 2003 11:59:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [155.100.140.105] ([155.100.140.105] verified) by mail.cvrti.utah.edu (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.0.6) with ESMTP id 2044412 for info-volumizer@sgi.com; Thu, 24 Jul 2003 12:58:20 -0600 User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/10.1.1.2418 Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 12:58:19 -0600 Subject: [info-volumizer] Visualization with displacements From: "Frank B. Sachse" To: Message-ID: Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-5.8 required=6.7 tests=BAYES_10,SIGNATURE_LONG_SPARSE,USER_AGENT_ENTOURAGE version=2.55 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.55 (1.174.2.19-2003-05-19-exp) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.55 (1.174.2.19-2003-05-19-exp) Sender: owner-info-volumizer@els.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Reply-To: info-volumizer@els.sgi.com Hello, I'm interested to update our software to volumizer 2.4 and searching for a visualization technique as illustrated in the example source voglMorph.cxx available in volumizer 1.2. This technique takes displacements in geometries into account, i.e. the position of vertices is described by their original position and a displacement vector. A possible way to do this would be by rendering of displaced lattice data into an rectangular lattice, which can then visualized by Volumizer. A nicer and preferred way would be to apply the displacements during rendering. In our applications the number of displacements is typically 10-100 smaller than the number of vertices in the volume. Both data sets are stored in rectangular 3D lattices. Such a technique is illustrated by the example in volumizer 1.2 showing the deforming of a voIndexedTetraSet by displacement of a single vertex (voglMorph.cxx line 88). In volumizer 2 displacements of vertices in a vzVertexArray lead to changes of the visualized array. This allows e.g. complex, but fast ROI selections. but leaves the underlying rectangular lattice structure unmodified. I tested this with the SoVolumeShape class substituting vzBlock by vzStructuredHexaMesh. Thank you for any idea, how such a technique can be used in conjunction with Volumizer 2! Frank -- PD Dr.-Ing. Frank B. Sachse University of Utah Nora Eccles Harrison Cardiovascular Research and Training Institute 95 South 2000 East, Salt Lake City, UT 84112-5000 e-mail: fs@cvrti.utah.edu Phone: (801) 587-9514 Fax: (801) 581-3128 http: www.cvrti.utah.edu/~fs From info-volumizer-owner@els.sgi.com Mon Jul 28 17:17:56 2003 Received: from els.sgi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by els.sgi.com (8.12.9/8.12.2/els-2.2) with ESMTP id h6T0HuUN3664152; Mon, 28 Jul 2003 17:17:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by els.sgi.com (8.12.9/8.12.8/Submit) id h6T0Hump3923293; Mon, 28 Jul 2003 17:17:56 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: els.sgi.com: majordom set sender to owner-info-volumizer@els.sgi.com using -f Received: from zok.sgi.com (zok.SGI.COM [204.94.215.101]) by els.sgi.com (8.12.9/8.12.2/els-2.2) with ESMTP id h6T0BdUN3905873 for ; Mon, 28 Jul 2003 17:11:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mrcoffee.engr.sgi.com (mrcoffee.engr.sgi.com [192.102.96.154]) by zok.sgi.com (8.12.9/8.12.9/linux-outbound_gateway-1.1) with ESMTP id h6T0Bdq0011811 for ; Mon, 28 Jul 2003 17:11:39 -0700 Received: from mrcoffee.engr.sgi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mrcoffee.engr.sgi.com (SGI-8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id h6T0BSYF401049 for ; Mon, 28 Jul 2003 17:11:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (praveenb@localhost) by mrcoffee.engr.sgi.com (SGI-8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) with ESMTP id h6T0B88p410011 for ; Mon, 28 Jul 2003 17:11:28 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 17:11:08 -0700 From: Praveen Bhaniramka To: info-volumizer@els.sgi.com Subject: Re: [info-volumizer] Visualization with displacements In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-info-volumizer@els.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Reply-To: info-volumizer@els.sgi.com Hi Frank, I haven't looked into the voglMorph example in quite a while, so I need to go back to it and see what exactly it does. My first impression is that it requires the use of application specified texture coordinates ... The TMRenderAction in Volumizer 2.x currently specifies the texture coordinates internally for the volumetric shape using the volume texture's geometry ROI (which itself is a rectangular region-of-interest). Specifying texture coordinates is something that the TMRenderAction does not expose right now. I would try and see if I can come up with a hack that will let you implement the functionality that you need easily. Cheers, Praveen On Thu, 24 Jul 2003, Frank B. Sachse wrote: > Hello, > > I'm interested to update our software to volumizer 2.4 and searching for a > visualization technique as illustrated in the example source voglMorph.cxx > available in volumizer 1.2. This technique takes displacements in geometries > into account, i.e. the position of vertices is described by their original > position and a displacement vector. A possible way to do this would be by > rendering of displaced lattice data into an rectangular lattice, which can > then visualized by Volumizer. A nicer and preferred way would be to apply > the displacements during rendering. In our applications the number of > displacements is typically 10-100 smaller than the number of vertices in the > volume. Both data sets are stored in rectangular 3D lattices. > > Such a technique is illustrated by the example in volumizer 1.2 showing the > deforming of a voIndexedTetraSet by displacement of a single vertex > (voglMorph.cxx line 88). In volumizer 2 displacements of vertices in a > vzVertexArray lead to changes of the visualized array. This allows e.g. > complex, but fast ROI selections. but leaves the underlying rectangular > lattice structure unmodified. I tested this with the SoVolumeShape class > substituting vzBlock by vzStructuredHexaMesh. > > Thank you for any idea, how such a technique can be used in conjunction with > Volumizer 2! > > Frank > > > -- > PD Dr.-Ing. Frank B. Sachse > University of Utah > Nora Eccles Harrison Cardiovascular Research and Training Institute > 95 South 2000 East, Salt Lake City, UT 84112-5000 > > e-mail: fs@cvrti.utah.edu > Phone: (801) 587-9514 > Fax: (801) 581-3128 > http: www.cvrti.utah.edu/~fs > > > -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Praveen Bhaniramka Member of Technical Staff (MTS) praveenb@sgi.com Advanced Graphics Division (650)933-1785 Silicon Graphics, Inc. -----------------------------------------------------------------