NHSE Software Catalog

AHPCRC Graphics Software: Bob

url

ftp://ftp.arc.umn.edu/pub/GVL/gvl.tar.gz

author

Ken Chin-Purcell, Minnesota Supercomputer Center Inc.

abstract

Bob is an interactive volume renderer. It provides very good performance
when run on a system that has high polygon performance such as a Silicon
Graphics VGX workstation. The input to Bob is a 3D array (or brick) of
bytes, thus the name "Bob". It was specifically designed to work with
subsets of larger datasets which are commonly generated at the Graphics
and Visualization Laboritory.

description

http://www.arc.umn.edu/html/gvl-software/bob.html

reference

http://www.arc.umn.edu/GVL/Software/bob.html

keywords

data visualizaton

environment

z-buffer, alpha blending

comments

Works best on an SGI 4D series computer that is capable of alpha blending.
This includes Indigo, Elan, GTX, and VGX graphics hardware.