AnimaBob: An interactive volume rendering tool for generating movies.

Requirements:

This suite of programs was originally targeted and designed for the Irix operating system running on Silicon Graphics workstations, servers and supercomputers. At present, optimal performance will be obtained from those platforms.

However, the advent of Brian Paul's Mesa3D OpenGL clone and the general wide-spread adoption of OpenGL by a wide number of operating system vendors and video hardware manufacturers has opened up AnimaBob to a new community of users.

The following represents the minimum requirements for building and running the AnimaBob package:

• An ANSI C compiler suite
• X11R6.1 or later
• Motif 1.0 or later OR LessTif 0.87 or later
• OpenGL 1.0 or later OR Mesa3D 3.0 or later
• GL widgets (i.e. libGLw)

The AnimaBob package has been tested and run successfully on the following platforms:

• Silicon Graphics Irix 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, and 6.5
• MIPSPro compiler
• Indy, Indigo2, Onyx, Challenge, O2, Octane, O200, O2000, Onyx2
• OpenGL 1.1


• Sun Microsystems Solaris 2.5.1, 2.6, and 2.7
• GNU EGCS 1.1.2 and GCC 2.95.1
• UltraSPARC 10
• Mesa3D 3.0


• GNU Linux 2.2 and 2.3
• GNU EGCS 1.1.2 and GCC 2.95.1
• PowerPC and x86
• Mesa3D 3.0

If you are able to successfully build and compile the AnimaBob package on platforms other than those listed above, please let us know.

Downloading

The latest version of AnimaBob is: 1.3.0b

Support

• AnimaBob User Guide
• Download a demonstration data set
• GVL Software from AHPCRC upon which AnimaBob is based

References

• Bob. The predecessor of AnimaBob.
• LessTif. The free Motif clone.
• Mesa3D. The free OpenGL clone.
• Viz. Another AnimaBob-like volume renderer.

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Last modified: Tue Nov 16 23:23:29 PST 1999 grant@borg.umn.edu